Zitarrosa Site (Jurassic to of Argentina)

Also known as Cañadón Bagual

Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.4° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° S, 28.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Las Chacritas Member (Cañadón Asfalto Formation), Late/Upper Toarcian to Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 168.4 Ma)

• "slightly lower in the sequence than the layer from which the mammal Asfaltomylos"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, gray siltstone

• "lacustrine"
• "slabs" from "gray siltstones overlying basaltic levels"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Museo Paleontólogico Egidio Feruglio of Trelew collection (MPEF)

Primary reference: A. M. Báez and L. Nicoli. 2008. A new species of Notobatrachus (Amphibia, Salientia) from the Middle Jurassic of northwestern Patagonia. Journal of Paleontology 82(2):372-376 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92115: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• frogs were found "in association with plants"
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Amphibia
 Salientia -
Notobatrachus reigi n. sp.
Notobatrachus reigi n. sp. Báez and Nicoli 2008 frog
MPEF 3006