Ischigualasto III tracksite: Norian, Argentina
collected by J. F. Bonaparte 1978

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
? Prosauropoda indet. Huene 1920
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:

14677ETE 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]