ammonites
Serrote do Letreiro (SOSL), level A (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Leonardi locality 60

Where: Paraíba, Brazil (6.7° S, 38.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 5.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Antenor Navarro Formation (Rio do Peixe Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.5 - 130.0 Ma)

• originally thought to be Late Triassic

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; burrowed, fine-grained, red sandstone and yellow sandstone

• "very coarse and yellowish sandstone with conglomerate beds. The surface of the layers is a finer material, with orange colored surface."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by G. Leonardi in 1977-1979

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Leonardi. 1979. New archosaurian trackways from the Rio do Peixe basin, Paraíba, Brazil. Annali dell'Università di Ferrara (Nuova Serie). Sezione IX – Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche 5(14):239-250 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56557: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 21.11.2005

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