Botucatu Formation

The Botucatu Formation is an Aptian geologic formation of the Paraná and Pelotas Basins in southern Brazil and northern Uruguay. The formation is composed of quartzitic sandstones, deposited in an eolian environment.[1] Fossil theropod tracks have been reported from the formation.[2]

Botucatu Formation
Stratigraphic range: Aptian
TypeGeological formation
Unit ofSão Bento Group
UnderliesSerra Geral Formation
OverliesRio do Rasto Formation
Lithology
PrimarySandstone
Location
Coordinates29.7°S 52.4°W / -29.7; -52.4
Approximate paleocoordinates30.6°S 19.5°W / -30.6; -19.5
RegionRio Grande do Sul
Country Brazil
 Uruguay
ExtentParaná & Pelotas Basins
Type section
Named forBotucatu

Geologic map of the Paraná Basin with the Paleozoic and Mesozoic units in light blue

Description

The sandstone is fine-textured and well sorted, containing no pebbles; its colour is occasionally white, yellowish, and reddish, but more commonly it is pinkish. Nearly always it is silicified and therefore compact and hard.[3] The formation was deposited in an arid desert environment, characterized by sabkhas and wadis.[4]

Fossil content

Among the following fossils were reported from the Botucatu Formation:[3]

Ichnofossils
  • Brasilichnium elusivum[4]

See also

References

  1. Petrolli & Pimentel, 2014, p.1
  2. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  3. São Bento quarry, Araraquara at Fossilworks.org
  4. Leonardi, 1994, p.50

Bibliography

  • Leonardi, Giuseppe. 1994. Annotated Atlas of South America Tetrapod Footprints (Devonian to Holocene) with an appendix on Mexico and Central America, 1–248. Ministerio de Minas e Energia - Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais, Geological Service of Brazil. Accessed 2019-03-25.
  • Petrolli, Larissa, and Ana Maria Pimentel Mizusaki. 2014. Formação Botucatu (Jurássico, Bacia do Paraná) – análogo como reservatório de hidrocarbonetos para as bacias da margem continental brasileira, 1. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Accessed 2017-09-09.
  • Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21.ISBN 0-520-24209-2

Further reading

  • Leonardi, G. 1989. Inventory and statistics of the South American dinosaurian ichnofauna and its paleobiological interpretation. In D. D. Gillette & M. G. Lockley (ed.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces 165-178.
  • Leonardi, G. 1980. On the discovery of an abundant ichno-fauna (vertebrates and invertebrates) in the Botucatu Formation s.s. in Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 52(3):559-567 link.
  • Leonardi,G., Carvalho, I.S., and Fernandes, M.A. 2007. The desert ichnofauna from Botucatu Formation (Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous), Brazil. In: Carvalho, I.S., Cassab, R.C.T., Schwanke, C.,Carvalho, M.A., Fernandes, A.C.S., Rodrigues, M.A.C., Carvalho, M.S.S., Arai, M., and Oliveira, M.E.Q. (eds.). Paleontologia: Cenários da Vida, I. Interciência, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. p, 372–383. link.
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