PBDB Collection

Piau-Caiçara tracksite (SOCA 13) (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Piau Farm, Fazenda Piau, Leonardi locality 64, 13/1, 13/2, 13/3, 13/4, 13/5, 13/6

Where: Paraíba, Brazil (6.7° S, 38.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 5.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sousa Formation (Rio do Peixe Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 129.4 Ma)

• 7 closely spaced layers of uncertain relationship, 13/1 to 13/6 (incl. 13/5 bis)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, red siltstone

• "package of layers...siltite or silty laminite, dark brick color, with contraction cracks, raindrop marks;...gray siltite"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by G. Leonardi in 1979–1981, 2003

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Leonardi. 1984. Le impronte fossili di Dinosauri [The fossil footprints of dinosaurs]. In J. F. Bonaparte, E. H. Colbert, P. J. Currie, A/ J de Ricqlès, Z. Keilan-Jaworowska, G. Leonardi, F. Morello, P. Taquet (eds.), Sulle Orme dei Dinosauri 164-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 187920: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
Dinosauria -	Dinosauria indet.² Dinosauria indet.² Owen 1842 dinosaur tridactyl tracks; SOCA 13266, 13268, 133, 13330, 13369, 13498, 13695
Theropoda -	Theropoda indet.², Theropoda indet.² Theropoda indet.² Marsh 1881 theropod SOCA 1321 bis, 1322, 1324, 13212, 13216, 13219, 13228, 13232, 13234, 13251, 13259, 13264, 13274, 13275, 1360, 1366, 13690, 13691, 13693, 13694, 1370, 1351, 13270 Theropoda indet.² Marsh 1881 theropod SOCA 1323, 13230, 13276, 1332, 13322
Theropoda - Grallatoridae	Grallator sp.², Grallator cf. olonensis², Grallator cf. maximus² Grallator sp.² Hitchcock 1858 theropod SOCA 1331 ("a very large trackmaker of the Noasauridae or another similar family") Grallator cf. olonensis² Lapparent and Montenat 1967 theropod SOCA 1321 ("very similar to the Noasauridae" Grallator cf. maximus² Lapparent and Montenat 1967 theropod SOCA 13319, 13325, 13329, 13345, 13351, 13354, 13378, 13399 ("likely to have been made by noasaurids")
Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae	aff. Deinonychus sp. aff. Deinonychus sp. Ostrom 1969 maniraptoran
Theropoda - Ornithomimipodidae	cf. Columbosauripus sp.² cf. Columbosauripus sp.² Sternberg 1932 coelurosaur SOCA 13215, 13217, 13255, 13271, 1336, 1337
Theropoda - Gigandipodidae	Gigandipodidae indet.¹ Gigandipodidae indet.¹ Lull 1904 theropod SOCA 1351
Theropoda - Eubrontidae	Eubrontidae indet.², "cf. Bueckeburgichnus sp." = Megalosauripus² Eubrontidae indet.² Lull 1904 theropod SOCA 1364/1-2, 13237, 1369, 13697, 1363, 1338 "cf. Bueckeburgichnus sp." = Megalosauripus² Lessertisseur 1955 theropod SOCA 13368, 13360
Ornithischia -	cf. Stegopodus sp.², Ornithopoda indet., Hadrosauria indet. cf. Stegopodus sp.² Lockley and Hunt 1998 ornithischian SOCA 1361, 13695 Ornithopoda indet. ornithopod Hadrosauria indet. Horner 1990 ornithopod
Ornithischia - Iguanodontidae	Iguanodontidae indet. Iguanodontidae indet. Bonaparte 1850 iguanodontid
Saurischia -	Sauropoda indet.¹ Sauropoda indet.¹ sauropod SOCA 138, 339, 1331, 1341, 1342, 13313, 13318, 13323, 13324, 13327, 13328, 13334, 13340–13343, 13352, 13359, 13363, 13364, 13367, 13370, 13383, 13384
Loricata -	Crocodyliformes indet.² Crocodyliformes indet.² Hay 1930 crocodilian SOCA 13334–13335
Testudinata -	Testudinata indet.² Testudinata indet.² Oppel 1811 turtle SOCA 1359

¹Godoy and Leonardi 1985; ²Leonardi and Carvalho 2021