Agua del Choique tracksite (Loncoche, upper) (Lo-3) (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Parque Municipal Cretácico Huellas de Dinosaurios

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (35.4° S, 69.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° S, 54.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Loncoche Formation (Malargüe Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• in middle of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; gray, yellow, calcareous sandstone and ooidal limestone

• deltaic, related to an epicontinental "marine ingression"
• "yellowish grey, calcareous sandstone facies interbedded with yellow oolitic limestones and green claystones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by González Riga & Calvo

Collection methods: surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

Primary reference: B. J. González Riga and J. O. Calvo. 2009. A new wide-gauge sauropod track site from the Late Cretaceous of Mendoza, Neuquén Basin, Argentina. Palaeontology 52(3):631-640 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91472: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.09.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda "indet. 3"2, Theropoda "indet. 4"1, Theropoda "indet. 5"1, Theropoda "indet. 2"2
Theropoda "indet. 3"2 Marsh 1881 theropod
Morphotype 3
Theropoda "indet. 4"1 Marsh 1881 theropod
Morphotype 4
Theropoda "indet. 5"1 Marsh 1881 theropod
Morphotype 5
Theropoda "indet. 2"2 Marsh 1881 theropod
 Saurischia -
Titanopodus mendozensis n. gen. n. sp.
Titanopodus mendozensis n. gen. n. sp. González Riga and Calvo 2009 sauropod
1González Riga et al. 2015; 2Ortiz David and González Riga 2013