Langui tracksite (Paleogene of Peru)

Also known as Sicuani, Leonardi locality 113

Where: Cusco, Peru (14.5° S, 71.2° W: paleocoordinates 17.0° S, 61.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Couches Rouges Formation, Paleogene (66.0 - 23.0 Ma)

• originally assigned to Santonian-Maastrichtian based on interpretation of track as dinosaurian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Leonardi. 1994. Annotated Atlas of South America Tetrapod Footprints (Devonian to Holocene) with an Appendix on Mexico and Central America. . República Federativa do Brasil, Ministério de Minas e Energia, Secretaria de Minas e Metalurgia, Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais, Brasília 1-248 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57183: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 08.12.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha -
Meridiungulata indet. McKenna 1975 eutherian