Sousa Formation
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Sousa Formation (Brazil)
The Sousa Formation is a Berriasian-Hauterivian geologic formation in Paraíba, Brazil. Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.[1]
Ichnofossils
Among others, these ichnofossils have been reported from the formation:[2]
- Carnosauria indet.
- Coelurosauria indet.
- Moraesichnium barbarenae
- Sousaichnium pricei
- Sousatitanosauripus robsoni.[3]
- Staurichnium diogenis
See also
References
- ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ^ Passagem das Pedras at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Gomes, Z. T.; Erickson, R. F.; Aureliano, T.; Ghilardi, A. M. (2024). "A new ichnosite and ichnogenus from the Lower Cretaceous Rio do Peixe Basin, Brazil, with novel insights into the evolution of Titanosauriformes". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology: 1–15. doi:10.1080/08912963.2024.2385613.
Bibliography
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21
Further reading
- New dinosaur tracksites from the Sousa Lower Cretaceous basin (Paraíba, Brasil)
- ANP - Brazil Round 9 - Rio do Peixe Basin Archived 2018-08-14 at the Wayback Machine