Loma del Pterodaustro (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as ETE Locality 1585, Loma del Pterodaustro,

Where: Argentina (32.5° S, 67.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° S, 38.7° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lagarcito Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_min

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: alluvial_fan ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: mudstone, ETE lithology comments: 0

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 830, 815, 669, 840, 819, 700, 699, 733, 703, 705, 704, 702, 697, 695, 681, 806, 804, 805, 694, 829, 792, 691, 689, 791, 734, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte. 1978. El Mesozoico de America de Sur y sus Tetrapodos [The Mesozoic of South America and its tetrapods]. Opera Lilloana 26:1-596 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22710: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 29.05.2001, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Insecta
 Dicondylia -
Trichoptera indet.1 Kirby 1815 caddisfly
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Darwinulidae
Darwinula sp.1 Brady and Robertson 1885 ostracod
 Podocopida - Limnocytheridae
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Candonopsis sp.1 Vavra 1891 ostracod
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Cyzicidae
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Pterodaustro guinazui n. gen. n. sp.2
Pterodaustro guinazui n. gen. n. sp.2 Bonaparte 1970 pterosaur
Actinopteri
 Ginglymodi -
Neosemionotus puntanus1 López-Arbarello and Codorniú 2007
 Lepisosteiformes -
 Pholidophoriformes - Pleuropholidae
Copytus
  -
Copytus sp.1 Skogsberg 1939
 Ichnofossils -