Quebrada de Acheral tracksite (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Salta, Argentina (25.7° S, 65.7° W: paleocoordinates 28.3° S, 52.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yacoraite Formation (Salta Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. Cónsole-Gonella, S. de Valais, R. A. Marquillas and M. Cristina Sánchez. 2017. The Maastrichtian–Danian Maimará tracksite (Yacoraite Formation, Salta Group), Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina: environments and ichnofacies implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 468:327-350 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 219398: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Acheralichnus leonardii n. gen. n. sp.
Acheralichnus leonardii n. gen. n. sp. Sánchez Roja 2004 hadrosaurid