Ischigualasto Depression (Triassic of Argentina)

Where: San Juan, Argentina (30.1° S, 67.8° W: paleocoordinates 46.8° S, 33.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: La Peña Member (Ischigualasto Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• "Lower Member" should now = La Peña Mb

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V.H. Contreras. 1981. Datos preliminares sobre un nuevo rincosaurio (Reptilia, Rhynchosauria) del Triasico Superior de Argentina. Anais II Congresso Latino-Americano Paleontologia, Porto Alegre 2:289-294 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49007: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 05.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Rhynchosauria - Rhynchosauridae
Rhynchosaurinae indet. Nopcsa 1923 rhynchosaur
said to be a new genus