Ischigualasto III tracksite (Triassic of Argentina)

Also known as Leonardi locality 14

Where: La Rioja, Argentina (30.1° S, 67.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° S, 31.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Los Colorados Formation (Agua de la Peña Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• upper part of formation; formation is considered to be latest Triassic in age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; red mudstone and conglomerate

• floodplain, "with temporary courses of water that moved laterally," oxidative environment, rare organic layers
• "reddish laminated mudstone, with conglomeratic layers"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by J. F. Bonaparte in 1978

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. Leonardi. 1981. As localidades com rastros fósseis de tetrápodes na América Latina [Localities with fossil tetrapod tracks in Latin America]. In Y. T. Sanguinetti (ed.), Anais II Congresso Latino-Americano de Paleontologia 2:929-940 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 85568: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
? Prosauropoda indet.
? Prosauropoda indet. prosauropod
archosaurian tracks, "possibly prosauropods"