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4. Desert Cretaceous Dinosaurs: The Botucatu Paleodesert and the Footprints Across the Dunes

verfasst von : Marcelo Adorna Fernandes, Luciana Bueno dos Reis Fernandes, Júlia Beatrice Schutzer

Erschienen in: Dinosaur Tracks of Mesozoic Basins in Brazil

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Abstract

Tetrapod fossil footprints are common in the aeolian sandstones from the Botucatu Formation in many Brazilian states, all around the edge of the Paraná Basin. This unit is represented by well-selected, reddish aeolian sandstones, related to an extensive dune field. Its age is Early Cretaceous (Berriasian-Barremian). The main ichnosite from the Botucatu Formation occurs in the interior of São Paulo State, in the Araraquara region, at the São Bento quarry, where slabs for covering and paving of public sidewalks, were extracted. This quarry presents a section of a large dune, about 20 m high and 100 m long, exhibiting foresets with a dip of 29° in the S-SW direction. Alongside the bedding surfaces there are abundant tracks attributed to mammals, Theropoda and Ornithopoda. These are herein grouped in four morphotypes, in addition to other kinds of isolated footprints difficult to classify. All these occurrences belong to bipedal and functionally tridactyl dinosaurs; no Sauropodomorpha tracks were found. To these theropod and ornithopod footprints and trackways from the eastern side of the Paraná Basin are added those of the western side, in the area of Nioaque, Mato Grosso do Sul State. The Botucatu paleodesert harbored a possibly endemic fauna, of bipedal carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs, which makes difficult a faunistic comparison with other localities, in other paleobiogeographic contexts.

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Titel: Desert Cretaceous Dinosaurs: The Botucatu Paleodesert and the Footprints Across the Dunes
verfasst von: Marcelo Adorna Fernandes
Luciana Bueno dos Reis Fernandes
Júlia Beatrice Schutzer
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
Buch: Dinosaur Tracks of Mesozoic Basins in Brazil
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-56354-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-56355-3

Copyright-Jahr: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56355-3_4