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
? Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
1 specimen
    = Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Leonardi 1989
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Coelurosauria indet. (Huene 1914)
1 specimen
    = Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858
Leonardi 1989
Reptilia - Abelisauridae
Tyrannosauroidea indet. Walker 1964
1 specimen
    = ? Abelisauridae indet. Bonaparte and Novas 1985
Leonardi 1989
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
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
Geological group:Neuquén Formation:Huincul
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Río Limay Subgroup
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:

32443ETE 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]
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]