ammonites
São Romão tracksite (ORSR) (Cretaceous to of Brazil)

Also known as Leonardi locality 75

Where: Ceará, Brazil (6.4° S, 39.0° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 6.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quixoá Formation (Rio do Peixe Group), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.5 - 125.5 Ma)

• originally "lowermost section" of Antenor Navarro Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; siltstone and medium-grained, gray, yellow sandstone

• alluvial fan in a braided fluvial system
• "medium alluvial sandstones, grayish to yellowish color."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Leonardi, Muniz, & do Valle in 1981

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• discovered by Giuseppe Leonardi with Geraldo da Costa Barros Muniz and Lenice do Valle

Primary reference: G. Leonardi. 1994. Annotated Atlas of South America Tetrapod Footprints (Devonian to Holocene) with an Appendix on Mexico and Central America. República Federativa do Brasil, Ministério de Minas e Energia, Secretaria de Minas e Metalurgia, Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais, Brasília 1-248 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67233: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 15.11.2006