Talampaya tracksite: Olenekian, Argentina
collected by J. F. Bonaparte 1964

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Chirotheriidae
? Chirotheriidae indet. Abel 1935
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
Geological group:Paganzo Formation:Talampaya
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Scythian (Werfenian)"
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:

14677ETE 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]