Cañada del Ombú II tracksite: Kimmeridgian - Tithonian, Uruguay
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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| 2 individuals | ||||||||||
| track D, trackway E | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Uruguay | State/province: | Tacuarembó |
| Coordinates: | 31.8° South, 55.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.9° South, 10.2° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.8 - 143.1 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tacuarembó | Member: | Batoví |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination,very fine,fine,white,yellow lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "yellowish-whitish, very fine to fine-grained sandstones with horizontal lamination" | |
| Environment: | interdune |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Rock censused: | 80000 cm2 (area) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | CDO II | ||
| Database number: | 182632 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-11-15 15:14:02 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-15 15:14:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60828. | V. Mesa and D. Perea. 2015. First record of theropod and ornithopod tracks and detailed description of sauropod trackways from the Tacuarembó Formation (Late Jurassic–?Early Cretaceous) of Uruguay. Ichnos 22(2):109-121 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |