Talampaya tracksite: Olenekian, Argentina
collected by J. F. Bonaparte 1964
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Chirotheriidae
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? Chirotheriidae indet.
Abel 1935
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1 individual | |||||||||
"probably chirotherian" | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Argentina | State/province: | La Rioja |
Coordinates: | 29.6° South, 68.1° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 46.0° South, 40.2° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Triassic |
Stage: | Olenekian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
Key time interval: | Olenekian | ||
Age range of interval: | 251.20000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | medium,red sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "pink, medium-grained sanstone" | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | trace |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Disassociated major elements: | all |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | J. F. Bonaparte | Collection dates: | 1964 |
Metadata
Database number: | 74750 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-08-28 07:14:31 | Last modified: | 2016-06-30 12:48:18 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-08-28 07:14:31 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
59610. | 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] |
Secondary references:
14677 | ETE | 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] |