Ischigualasto III tracksite: Norian, Argentina
collected by J. F. Bonaparte 1978
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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? Prosauropoda indet.
Huene 1920
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archosaurian tracks, "possibly prosauropods" | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Argentina | State/province: | La Rioja |
Coordinates: | 30.1° South, 67.6° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 39.1° South, 31.0° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
Stage: | Norian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
Key time interval: | Norian | ||
Age range of interval: | 228.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Agua de la Peña | Formation: | Los Colorados | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: upper part of formation; formation is considered to be latest Triassic in age |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | planar lamination,red mudstone |
Secondary lithology: | conglomerate |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "reddish laminated mudstone, with conglomeratic layers" | |
Environment: | wet floodplain |
Geology comments: floodplain, "with temporary courses of water that moved laterally," oxidative environment, rare organic layers |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | J. F. Bonaparte | Collection dates: | Apr 1978 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Leonardi locality 14 | ||
Database number: | 85568 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-01-09 08:59:56 | Last modified: | 2017-07-25 15:54:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-01-09 08:59:56 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
62875. | G. Leonardi. 1981. As localidades com rastros fósseis de tetrápodes na América Latina [Localities with fossil tetrapod tracks in Latin America]. In Y. T. Sanguinetti (ed.), Anais II Congresso Latino-Americano de Paleontologia 2:929-940 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
14677 | ETE | G. Leonardi. 1994. Annotated Atlas of South America Tetrapod Footprints (Devonian to Holocene) with an Appendix on Mexico and Central America. . República Federativa do Brasil, Ministério de Minas e Energia, Secretaria de Minas e Metalurgia, Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais, Brasília 1-248 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/E. Dunne] |