2 km east of Puesto Las Higueras (Triassic of Argentina)

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

• large bodies of fresh or brackish water, shorelines; semi-arid, oxidative
• "Fine sandstones, clayish sandstone and micaceous silts of reddish and purplish color with parallel and interference ripple marks."

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

• site also preserves "worm burrows" and "continental plants"
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Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Chirotherium barthii
Chirotherium barthii Kaup 1835 archosaur
MCNAM PV-2951; GHUNLPam 12491
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Dicynodontipus sp., Dicynodontipus sp., Dicynodontipus sp., Dicynodontipus sp.
Dicynodontipus sp. Rühle von Lilienstern 1944 therapsid
PVL 2730; Cynodontia or Bauriamorpha, similar to Dicynodontipus
Dicynodontipus sp. Rühle von Lilienstern 1944 therapsid
PVL 2737, 2738
Dicynodontipus sp. Rühle von Lilienstern 1944 therapsid
PVL 2740
Dicynodontipus sp. Rühle von Lilienstern 1944 therapsid
PVL 3520, 2741