Peninsula Nueva tracksite (level 4) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as Villa El Chocón, Picún Leufu

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (39.5° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 46.6° S, 45.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Candeleros Formation (Neuquén Group), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• lower part of formation, level 4

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; massive sandstone

• deltaic, related to an epicontinental "marine ingression"
• thick sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Calvo

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. O. Calvo. 1989. Nuevos hallazgos de huellas de dinosaurios en el Albiano-Cenomaniano de la localidad de Picun Leufé, Provincia del Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina [New localities of dinosaur footprints in the Albian-Cenomanian of the Picun Leufú locality, Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina]. VI Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados, San Juan 68-70 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 98023: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.09.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Bressanichnus patagonicus n. gen. n. sp. Calvo 1991 coelurosaur
MUCPv 60, 61
Deferrariischnium mapuchensis n. gen. n. sp. Calvo 1991 coelurosaur