Where: Mendoza, Argentina (32.5° S, 68.9° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° S, 40.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cerro de Las Cabras Formation (Uspallata Group), Middle Triassic (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)
• orig. listed as "Sierra de las Higueras" Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; fine-grained, red, argillaceous sandstone and red, argillaceous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by J. F. Bonaparte in 1963-1964
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
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/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 85558: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dicynodontipus sp. Rühle von Lilienstern 1944 therapsid PVL 2730; Cynodontia or Bauriamorpha, similar to Dicynodontipus
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