Sítio Malhada, Milagres (Cretaceous of Brazil)

Also known as Araripe

Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.3° S, 39.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.0° S, 6.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Missão Velha Formation (Vale do Carirí Group), Neocomian (145.0 - 125.8 Ma)

• dated as "Purbeckian"?-late Albian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; fine-grained, medium, white sandstone

• coarsening-upward cycles, representing "coalescent alluvial fans and an anastomosing fluvial system"
• within Lithofacies B: fine-medium arenites, quartzose, with subrounded to rounded grains, whitish color; common channel and tabular cross-stratification."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: I. d. S. Carvalho, M. S. S. Viana, and M. F. L. Filho. 1995. Os icnofósseis de dinossauros da Bacia do Araripe (Crétaceo Inferior, Ceará-Brasil) [Dinosaur ichnofossils from the Araripe Basin (Lower Cretaceous, Ceará, Brazil)]. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 67(4):433-442 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 67227: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
tridactyl print
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.
 Avetheropoda -
Carnosauria indet.