Trincajuera Creek: Late/Upper Tithonian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Neusticemys neuquina
(Fernandez and de la Fuente 1988)
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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
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Pliosauridae indet.
Seeley 1874
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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
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Ophthalmosaurus sp.
Seeley 1874
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Gasparini and Fernández 2005 | |||||||||
Caypullisaurus bonapartei
Fernández 1997
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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] |