Trincajuera Creek: Late/Upper Tithonian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Neusticemys neuquina (Fernandez and de la Fuente 1988)
De La Fuente and Fernandez 2011
original and current combination Eurysternum neuquinum
MOZ 6094P. mandible, right humerus, right femur, fragmentary remains of girdle bones and dorsal carapace (preserved in two halves). The main part is enclosed in a nodule together with the mandible, the humerus, the femur and fragments of the pelvic girdle bones. Its counterpart is the dorsal carapace cast
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Pliosauridae indet. Seeley 1874
Gasparini and Fernández 2005 1 individual
MOZ 6113V. Posterior fragment of rostrum and anterior part of the skull with part of the mandibular rami
Reptilia - Ophthalmosauridae
Ophthalmosaurus sp. Seeley 1874
Gasparini and Fernández 2005
Caypullisaurus bonapartei Fernández 1997
1 individual
MOZ-P 6097 (complete skull and mandible)
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Neuquén
Coordinates: 38.1° South, 70.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.4° South, 32.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Tithonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Tithonian Ammonoid zone: Substeueroceras koeneni
Age range of interval:146.30000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vaca Muerta
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Secondary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Dark shales with thick sections of light brown fissile marls and intercalations of black and grey limestones, dark calcareous concretions and aragonite veins
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Western sector of the Fold and Thrust Agrio Belt
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Caypullisaurus bonapartei referred locality Caypullisaurus bonapartei referred material
Database number:122661
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion, J. Tennant
Modifier:J. Tennant Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-01-05 00:24:05 Last modified:2013-04-22 07:33:03
Access level:the public Released:2012-01-05 00:24:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
35024. M. Fernández. 2007. Redescription and phylogenetic position of Caypullisaurus (Ichthyosauria: Ophthalmosauridae). Journal of Paleontology 81(2):368-375 [M. Carrano/H. Street/F. Aspromonte]

Secondary references:

45241 M. S. De La Fuente and M. S. Fernandez. 2011. An unusual pattern of limb morphology in the Tithonian marine turtle Neusticemys neuquina from the Vaca Muerta Formation, Neuquen Basin, Argentina. Lethaia 44:15-25 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
45358 M. S. Fernandez. 2000. Late Jurassic ichthyosaurs from the Neuquen Basin, Argentina. Historical Biology 14(1-2):133-136 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
45364 Z. Gasparini and M. Fernández. 2005. Jurassic marine reptiles of the Neuquen Basin: records, faunas, and their palaeobiogeographic significance. In G. D. Viega, L. A. Spalletti, J. A. Howell, E. Schwarz (eds.), The Neuquen Basin, Argentina: A Case Study in Sequence Stratigraphy and Basin Dynamics; Geological Society, London, Special Publications 252:279-294 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/F. Aspromonte]
46433 Z. Gasparini, L. Spalletti, and M. Fuente. 1997. Tithonian marine reptiles of the Western Neuquen Basin, Argentina. Facies and palaeoenvironments. [Reptiles marins tithoniens de l'Ouest du Bassin du Neuquen, Argentine. Facies et paldoenvironnements]. Geobios 30(5):701-712 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
46676 P. M. Sander. 2000. Ichthyosauria: their diversity, distribution and phylogeny. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 74(1/2):1-35 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]