Hoyada de Ischiqualasto, middle third (Triassic to of Argentina)

Also known as Argentinosuchus holotype site

Where: San Juan, Argentina (30.1° S, 67.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° S, 31.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Valle de la Luna Member (Ischigualasto Formation), Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Middle third of the formation, Ischigualasto-Ischichuca basin

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by O. Reig in 1959

• PVL: Instituto de Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina

Primary reference: R. M. Casamiquela. 1960. Notica preliminar sobre dos nuevos estagonolepoideos Argentinos. Ameghiniana 2:3-9 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92316: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 06.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Diapsida - Proterochampsidae
Proterochampsa barrionuevoi n. gen. n. sp.2 Reig 1959 archosauromorph
PVL 2063 (holotype)
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Aetosaurinae indet.1 Baur 1887 aetosaur
PVL 2053, incomplete right dorsal paramedian scute. Originally referred to Argentinosuchus bonapartei
Argentinosuchus bonapartei n. gen. n. sp. Casamiquela 1960 aetosaur
PVL 2091 (holotype), partial forelimb and several scutes.
 Pseudosuchia -
Aetosauroides scagliai Casamiquela 1960 aetosaur
PVL 2059, incomplete skull, jaws, and fragmentar y postcrania