Sierra de Las Higueras (Triassic of Argentina)

Also known as Leonardi locality 9

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (32.5° S, 68.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.8° S, 31.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Los Colorados Formation (Agua de la Peña Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by C. Rusconi, J. F. Bonaparte in 1950-1952

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Leonardi. 1981. As localidades com rastros fósseis de tetrápodes na América Latina [Localities with fossil tetrapod tracks in Latin America]. In Y. T. Sanguinetti (ed.), Anais II Congresso Latino-Americano de Paleontologia 2:929-940 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206089: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
"Chirotherium higuerensis n. sp." = Chirotherium barthii
"Chirotherium higuerensis n. sp." = Chirotherium barthii Kaup 1835 archosaur
PVL 2592, 2594
 Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
Rigalites sp. Huene 1931 aetosaur
PVL 2735; or prosauropod