Where: Mendoza, Argentina (35.2° S, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° S, 32.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Jurassic (163.5 - 145.0 Ma)
• most remains from the same bed as the ichthyosaur, or one very close
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by F. Gabrieli, C. Rusconi, V. Tomba, E. Flores, & P. Save in 1938
Primary reference: C. Rusconi. 1938. Restos de ictiosaurios del Jurásico Superior de Mendoza [Remains of ichthyosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Mendoza]. Boletin Paleontológico de Buenos Aires 10:1-4 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137144: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Steueroceras rotumdatus" = Aulacostephanus, "Steueroceras koeneni" = Aulacostephanus
"Steueroceras rotumdatus" = Aulacostephanus ammonite
"Steueroceras koeneni" = Aulacostephanus ammonite | |
Andiceras fallax, Berriasella calistoides, "Andesites curvatus" = Argentiniceras, Neocomites crassicostatus, Neocomites transgrediens
Andiceras fallax ammonite
Berriasella calistoides ammonite
"Andesites curvatus" = Argentiniceras ammonite
Neocomites crassicostatus ammonite
Neocomites transgrediens ammonite | |
Harpoceras sp. ammonite | |
Hoplites vetustus ammonite | |
Aspidoceras aff. haynoldi ammonite | |
"Oppelia perlaevis" = Cieneguiticeras perlaevis
"Oppelia perlaevis" = Cieneguiticeras perlaevis Steuer 1897 ammonite | |
Spiticeras hauthali ammonite
Spiticeras damesi Steuer 1897 ammonite
"Astieria subandina" = Olcostephanus ammonite | |
Reptilia | |
Myobradypterygius mollensis n. sp.
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