Cañadón del Surgente, Área Natural Protegida Municipal Paso Córdoba (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as General Roca; Valle de la Luna Rojo

Where: Río Negro, Argentina (39.1° S, 67.6° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° S, 52.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Group), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Near the top of the Anacleto Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; medium-grained, coarse, red sandstone

• reddish to pinkish, medium to coarse-grained sandstones, textural and compositionally immature

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: I. Díaz-Martínez, A. M. Heredia, S. N. González, N. Canale, S. Valais, C. A. Cónsole-Gonella, R. M. Montes, M. Caratelli, S. Urzagasti-Torres, G. Fischer, A. Lecuona, P. Paniceres, L. Salgado and P. Citton. 2022. Pterosaur Tracks from the Upper Cretaceous Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Basin), Northern Patagonia, Argentina: Insights into Campanian Pterosaur Diversity in Gondwana. Diversity 14:1007:1-16 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230118: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 09.05.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet. pterosaur
MPCN specimens (tracks)