Potrerillos, Quebrada de la Mina, Cerro Bayo (Triassic to of Argentina)

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (33.0° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° S, 32.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cacheuta Formation, Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2000. Stereospondyli. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 3B:1-203 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192149: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 13.03.2018, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Traversodontidae
Andescynodon mendozensis Bonaparte 1969 cynodont
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Chigutisauridae
Pelorocephalus mendozensis Cabrera 1944 tetrapod
DVPMP 44.VII-5-1 (Holotype: palette, mandibles, and postcranial fragments)