plateau north of Cerro Kachaike (a) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as Kacháike

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (49.1° S, 72.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° S, 58.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Senonian (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; black claystone

• "Blackish schistose clays, with sandy-clayey layers of blue-gray color on the surfaces exposed to the elements"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Feruglio

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: E. Feruglio. 1938. El Cretáceo superior del lago San Martín [The Upper Cretaceous of San Martín lake]. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 12(44):293-342 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222319: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.09.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonitida indet.
Ammonitida indet. Hyatt 1889 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae
Cleoniceras argentinum