Agua del Choique tracksite (Anacleto) (An-1, An-2, An-3) (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Agua del Choque, Parque Municipal Cretácico Huellas de Dinosaurios

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (35.4° S, 69.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° S, 54.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Group), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• from three levels in upper section of formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lenticular, fine-grained, medium sandstone and red mudstone

• Location referred to as "floodplain fluvial facies" and "floodplain deposits with ephemeral channels"
• Siltstone and claystone.

•"a lenticular medium to fine-grained sandstone bed (~2e10 cm) associated with deep red laminated mudstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by González Riga & Calvo

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: B. J. González Riga. 2011. Speeds and stance of titanosaur sauropods: analysis of Titanopodus tracks from the Late Cretaceous of Mendoza, Argentina. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 83(1):279-290 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 166340: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.02.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
cf. Teratopodus sp., Teratopodus malarguensis n. gen. n. sp.
cf. Teratopodus sp. Tomaselli et al. 2022 sauropod
isolated tracks 8-11
Teratopodus malarguensis n. gen. n. sp. Tomaselli et al. 2022 sauropod