Cantera Nueva, Tscherig Farm (Permian to of Argentina)

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

Where: Río Negro, Argentina (40.7° S, 68.1° W: paleocoordinates 54.4° S, 46.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 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 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 85559: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Rogerbaletichnus aguilerai n. gen. n. sp. Casamiquela 1964 therapsid
MLP 60-XI-31-5