Picún Leufú tracksite (Huincul Fm.): Late/Upper Cenomanian - Turonian, Argentina
collected by O. de Ferrariis, Z. Gasparini 1979
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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? Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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1 specimen | ||||||
= Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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Leonardi 1989 | ||||||
Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Coelurosauria indet.
(Huene 1914)
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1 specimen | ||||||
= Grallator sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Leonardi 1989 | ||||||
Reptilia
- Abelisauridae
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Tyrannosauroidea indet.
Walker 1964
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1 specimen | ||||||
= ? Abelisauridae indet.
Bonaparte and Novas 1985
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Leonardi 1989 | ||||||
Reptilia
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Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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Leonardi 1994 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Neuquén | County: | Picun Leufú |
Coordinates: | 39.5° South, 69.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 46.2° South, 46.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Cenomanian - Turonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 99.60000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "multicolored sandstone" | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | O. de Ferrariis, Z. Gasparini | Collection dates: | 1979 |
Collection method comments: originally discovered by fishers, reported to Oscar de Ferrariis |
Metadata
Also known as: | El Chocón, Peninsula Nueva | ||
Database number: | 85571 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-01-09 14:52:02 | Last modified: | 2017-07-25 17:04:33 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-01-09 14:52:02 |
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:
32443 | ETE | E. Jaillard, H. Cappetta, P. Ellenberger, M. Feist, N. Grambast-Fessard, J. P. Lefranc, and B. Sigé. 1993. Sedimentology, palaeontology, biostratigraphy and correlation of the Late Cretaceous Vilquechico Group of southern Peru. Cretaceous Research 14:623-661 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
59104 | G. Leonardi. 1989. Inventory and statistics of the South American dinosaurian ichnofauna and its paleobiological interpretation. In D. D. Gillette & M. G. Lockley (ed.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces 165-178 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
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] |