Cerro Los Hornos (Talenkauen locality): Campanian, Argentina
collected 2000
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Talenkauen santacrucensis n. gen., n. sp.
Novas et al. 2004
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2 individuals | |||||||||
MPM-PV 10001 plus neonatal teeth | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Santa Cruz |
Coordinates: | 49.9° South, 72.1° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.4° South, 58.7° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
Key time interval: | Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Cerro Fortaleza | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Previously attributed to the Pari Aike Formation, but regarded as the Cerro Fortaleza Formation by Sickman et al. (2018), with a Campanian age (Ghiglione et al. 2021)
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Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray mudstone |
Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: The specimen was found articulated in a cross–bedded, fining–upward, medium–grained sandstone, interpreted as a fluvial channel body | |
Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Associated major elements: | many |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Encrustation: | none |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | February 2000 |
Collection method comments: MPM, Museo Padre Molina, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz |
Metadata
Also known as: | Los Hornos Hill, Viedma Lake | ||
Database number: | 52980 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire |
Modifier: | F. Aspromonte | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-08-30 09:28:07 | Last modified: | 2023-12-11 07:19:35 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-30 09:28:07 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
14274. | ETE,5% 62240 | F. E. Novas, A. V. Cambiaso, and A. Ambrosio. 2004. A new basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. Ameghiniana 41(1):75-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
47243 | J. I. Canudo, L. Salgado, A. Garrido and J. Carballido. 2013. Primera evidencia de dinosaurios ornitópodos en la base de la Formación Huincul (Cenomaniense Superior-Turoniense, Cuenca Neuquina, Argentina) [First evidence of ornithopod dinosaurs at the base of the Huincul Formation (Cenomanian–upper Turonian, Neuquén Basin, Argentina)]. Geogaceta 53:9-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
76413 | P. Cruzado-Caballero, L. S. Filippi, A. H. Méndez, A. C. Garrido, and R. D. Juárez Valieri. 2016. New record of ornithopod dinosaur from the Plottier Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Patagonia, Argentina. Annales de Paléontologie 102:145-150 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
75729 | P. Cruzado-Caballero, L. S. Filippi, A. H. Méndez, A. C. Garrido, and I. Díaz-Martínez. 2018. First ornithopod remains from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Santonian, Upper Cretaceous), northern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 83:182-193 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
82976 | V. M. Egerton, F. E. Novas, P. Dodson and K. J. Lacovara. 2011. First occurrence of neonatal ornithopod teeth from South America. Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy 59:10-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
32655 | ETE | M. D. Ezcurra, F. L. Agnolin, and F. E. Novas. 2010. An abelisauroid dinosaur with a non-atrophied manus from the Late Cretaceous Pari Aike Formation of southern Patagonia. Zootaxa 2450:1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/F. Aspromonte] |
76422 | S. F. Poropat. 2019. Final report. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia 1-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |