Chañares River, north fork valley (Triassic of Argentina)

Where: La Rioja, Argentina (29.8° S, 67.8° W: paleocoordinates 49.9° S, 37.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chañares Formation (Agua de la Peña Group), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by A. Romer & J. Jensen in 1964; reposited in the MCZ, MLP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: A. S. Romer and J. A. Jensen. 1966. The Chañares (Argentina) Triassic reptile fauna. II. Sketch of the geology of the Río Chañares-Río Gualo region. Breviora 252:1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60299: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Diapsida - Proterochampsidae
Gualosuchus reigi n. gen. n. sp.
Gualosuchus reigi n. gen. n. sp. Romer 1971 archosauromorph
UNLR 01 (Ex MLP 1964 – XI – 14– 13), partial skull and limited postcranial material