Talampaya tracksite (Triassic of Argentina)

Where: La Rioja, Argentina (29.6° S, 68.1° W: paleocoordinates 46.0° S, 40.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Talampaya Formation (Paganzo Group), Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• "Scythian (Werfenian)"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; medium-grained, red sandstone

• "pink, medium-grained sanstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by J. F. Bonaparte in 1964

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte. 1978. El Mesozoico de America de Sur y sus Tetrapodos [The Mesozoic of South America and its tetrapods]. Opera Lilloana 26:1-596 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74750: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.08.2007

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Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
? Chirotheriidae indet.
? Chirotheriidae indet. Abel 1935 archosaur
"probably chirotherian"