Aguada del Caño: Late/Upper Coniacian - Early/Lower Santonian, Argentina
collected by Roth & Schiller 1921, 1923
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Avetheropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| large tooth | ||||||||||
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= Carnosauria indet.
Huene 1920
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Powell 2003 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Titanosaurus sp.
Lydekker 1877
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Powell 2003 | |||||||||
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= Titanosauria indet.
Bonaparte and Coria 1993
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Cruzado-Caballero et al. 2016 | |||||||||
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Antarctosaurus giganteus n. sp.
Huene 1927
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1 individual | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Antarctosaurus | ||||||||||
| MLP 23-316, Two femora, two fragments of a pubis, distal end of a tibia, two incomplete caudal vertebrae as well as indeterminate fragments (holotype) (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Chelonii
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Chelonia indet.
(Latreille 1800)
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Powell 2003 | |||||||||
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= Chelonii indet.
Latreille 1800
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de Broin and de la Fuente 1993 | |||||||||
| synonym of Testudines | ||||||||||
| 'Chelonii indet.: Chelidae primitifs... ou autres groupe de Pelomedusoides ou de Cryptodires?' | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Neuquén | County: | Confluencia |
| Coordinates: | 36.9° South, 70.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.7° South, 50.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Coniacian - Early/Lower Santonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 89.80000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | coarse,brown,gray,red sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "coarse sandstones of grey, brown and red colours" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | MLP | ||
| Collectors: | Roth & Schiller | Collection dates: | 1921, 1923 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 51572 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, R. Benson | Enterer: | M. Carrano, R. Benson |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-06-08 10:30:07 | Last modified: | 2021-04-14 13:16:09 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-08 10:30:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59060. | F. v. Huene. 1929. Los sauriquios y ornitisquios del Cretáceo argentino. Anales del Museo de La Plata, serie 2 3:1-196 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 63573 | J. F. Bonaparte. 1984. I dinosauri dell’Argentina [. In G. M. Ronzoni, M. L. Greggio, & T. B. Guarinoni (eds.), Sulle Orme dei Dinosauri 125-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 16547 | ETE | J. F. Bonaparte. 1996. Cretaceous tetrapods of Argentina. Münchner Geowissenschaften Abhandlungen 30:73-130 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 13929 | ETE | J. F. Bonaparte and Z. B. Gasparini. 1979. Los sauropodos de los grupos Neuquén y Chubut, y sus relaciones cronologicas [The sauropods of the Neuquén and Chubut Groups, and their chronological relationships]. Actas del VII Congreso Geológico Argentino, Neuquén 2:393-406 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 76413 | P. Cruzado-Caballero, L. S. Filippi, A. H. Méndez, A. C. Garrido, and R. D. Juárez Valieri. 2016. New record of ornithopod dinosaur from the Plottier Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Patagonia, Argentina. Annales de Paléontologie 102:145-150 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 42415 | F. de Broin and M. de la Fuente. 1993. Les tortues fossiles d'Argentine: synthese [The fossil turtles of Argentina: synthesis]. Annales de Paléontologie (Invertebrés-Vertebrés) 79(3):169-232 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano] | |
| 34689 | ETE | R. D. Juárez Valieri, J. O. Calvo, and S. D. Rios Díaz. 2011. Sauropods crossing formations: biostratigraphical implications for Patagonian faunal assemblages. In J. O. Calvo, J. D. Porfiri, B. J. González Riga, D. Dos Santos (eds.), Dinosaurios y Paleontología desde América Latina. Anales del III Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología. Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Neuquén 153-160 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 45986 | A. Otero and M. Reguero. 2013. Dinosaurs (Reptilia, Archosauria) at Museo de La Plata, Argentina: annotated catalogue of the type material and Antarctic specimens. Palaeontologia Electronica 16(1):3T:1-24 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano] | |
| 13712 | ETE | J. E. Powell. 2003. Revision of South American titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 111:1-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 16552 | ETE | P. Upchurch, P. M. Barrett, and P. Dodson. 2004. Sauropoda. In D. B. Weishampel, H. Osmolska, and P. Dodson (eds.), The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 259-322 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |