Cantera Vieja, Tscherig Farm (Permian to of Argentina)

Also known as Leonardi locality 12, Cantera Tscherig, La Vieja Quarry, Los Menucos

Where: Río Negro, Argentina (40.9° S, 68.2° W: paleocoordinates 54.5° S, 46.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vera Formation (Los Menucos Group), Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 247.2 Ma)

• from the "Porphyritic Complex"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• "Sandstone with poorly selected grains, with a variable content of tuffaceous breccias, a variety of colors and Rhyolitic tuff levels. Mud cracks."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by R. M. Casamiquela in 1940, 1959–1960; reposited in the MLP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. M. Casamiquela. 1964. Estudios Icnológicos. Problemas y Métodos de la Icnología con Aplicación al Estudio de Pisadas Mesozoicas (Reptilia, Mammalia) de la Patagonia [Ichnological Studies. Problems and Methods of Ichnology with Application to the Study of Mesozoic Trackways (Reptilia, Mammalia) from Patagonia] 1-229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53684: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Shimmelia chirotheroides n. gen. n. sp.
Shimmelia chirotheroides n. gen. n. sp. Casamiquela 1964 archosaur
MLP 60-XI-31-1, 2
 Pseudosuchia -
Ingenierichnus sierrai n. gen. n. sp.
Ingenierichnus sierrai n. gen. n. sp. Casamiquela 1964 archosaur
MLP 60-XI-31-3
 Squamata -
Rhynchosauroides sp.3 Maidwell 1911 squamates
MPA 85-366-I-E MD-99-6
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Palaciosichnus zettii n. gen. n. sp., "Rogerbaletichnus aquilerai" = Rogerbaletichnus aguilerai1, Gallegosichnus garridoi n. gen. n. sp., Calibarichnus ayestarani n. gen. n. sp., Stipanicichnus bonettii n. gen. n. sp.2, ? Cynodontia indet.4
Palaciosichnus zettii n. gen. n. sp. Casamiquela 1964 therapsid
MLP 60-XI-31-6; MPA 76-605-I-E, 76-611-I-E, 76-614-I-E, 76-616-I-E, 76-617-I-E, 76-624-I-E, 76-628-I-E
"Rogerbaletichnus aquilerai" = Rogerbaletichnus aguilerai1 Casamiquela 1964 therapsid
slab at Museu "Jorge Gergold" de Ingeniero Jacobacci
Gallegosichnus garridoi n. gen. n. sp. Casamiquela 1964 therapsid
MLP 60-XI-31-7, 8, 9, 2A; 66-XI-15-2, 3; MPA 76-609-I-E, 76-615-I-E, 76-608-I-E, 76-610-I-E, 76-618-I-E
Calibarichnus ayestarani n. gen. n. sp. Casamiquela 1964 therapsid
MLP 60-XI-31-4, MPA 76-605-I-E, 76-607-I-E, 76-608-I-E, 76-621-I-E
Stipanicichnus bonettii n. gen. n. sp.2 Casamiquela 1975 therapsid
CICRN 1-X-72-3
? Cynodontia indet.4 Owen 1861 cynodont