Quebrada del Viento (Triassic of Argentina)

Where: La Rioja, Argentina (29.9° S, 68.1° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° S, 31.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• late Norian-Rhaetian; upper levels of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithology not reported

• upper part of formation consists of fluvial deposits with sand channels of moderate-high sinuosity and well-developed floodplains w/thick alluvial deposits representing episodic flows and high precipitation; humid to subhumid conditions

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Primary reference: M. D. Ezcurra and C. Apaldetti. 2012. A robust sauropodomorph specimen from the Upper Triassic of Argentina and insights on the diversity of the Los Colorados Formation. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 123:155-164 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 32325: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.06.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
PULR 136; "unnamed genus"