Cerro Cacheuta (Triassic to of Argentina)

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (33.1° S, 69.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° S, 32.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: MCNA (Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas)

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 192150: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 13.03.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Chigutisauridae
Pelorocephalus cacheutensis Rusconi 1953 tetrapod
MCNA 2966 (Holotype: skull, mandibles, and right humerus)