Piau-Caiçara tracksite (SOCA 1) (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Piau Farm, Fazenda Piau, Leonardi locality 64

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)

• at least 25 levels

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, brown, green siltstone

• "variegated laminate, brown to green, hard, with undulations and contraction cracks"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by G. Leonardi in 1979-1981

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Leonardi. 1981. As localidades com rastros fósseis de tetrápodes na América Latina [Localities with fossil tetrapod tracks in Latin America]. In Y. T. Sanguinetti (ed.), Anais II Congresso Latino-Americano de Paleontologia 2:929-940 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58790: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Araripemydidae
Araripemydidae indet.3 Price 1973 sideneck turtle
 Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
Batrachopodidae indet.2 Lull 1904 aetosaur
"crocodiloid"
 Theropoda -