2 km east of Puesto Las Higueras: Middle Triassic, Argentina
collected by J. F. Bonaparte 1963-1964
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Therapsida indet.
Broom 1905
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1 specimen | |||||||||
PVL 2730; Cynodontia or Bauriamorpha, similar to Dicynodontipus | ||||||||||
= Dicynodontipus sp.
Rühle von Lilienstern 1944
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Melchor and de Valais 2006 | |||||||||
cf. Dicynodontipus sp.
Rühle von Lilienstern 1944
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2 specimens | |||||||||
PVL 2737, 2738 | ||||||||||
= Dicynodontipus sp.
Rühle von Lilienstern 1944
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Melchor and de Valais 2006 | |||||||||
Thecodontia indet.
Owen 1859
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1 specimen | |||||||||
PVL 2740 | ||||||||||
= Dicynodontipus sp.
Rühle von Lilienstern 1944
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Melchor and de Valais 2006 | |||||||||
Theriodonta indet.
(Owen 1876)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
PVL 3520, 2741 | ||||||||||
= Dicynodontipus sp.
Rühle von Lilienstern 1944
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Melchor and de Valais 2006 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Chirotheriidae
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Chirotherium barthii
Kaup 1835
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Melchor and de Valais 2006 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
MCNAM PV-2951; GHUNLPam 12491 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Mendoza | County: | Las Heras |
Coordinates: | 32.5° South, 68.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 51.6° South, 40.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Middle Triassic |
10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 2 | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Triassic | ||
Age range of interval: | 247.2 - 237 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Uspallata | Formation: | Cerro de Las Cabras | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: orig. listed as "Sierra de las Higueras" Fm. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | wave ripples,fine,red argillaceous sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | wave ripples,red argillaceous siltstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "Fine sandstones, clayish sandstone and micaceous silts of reddish and purplish color with parallel and interference ripple marks." | |
Environment: | fluvial-deltaic indet. |
Geology comments: large bodies of fresh or brackish water, shorelines; semi-arid, oxidative |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils | ||
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | J. F. Bonaparte | Collection dates: | 1963-1964 |
Taxonomic list comments:site also preserves "worm burrows" and "continental plants" |
Metadata
Database number: | 85558 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-01-08 14:53:03 | Last modified: | 2019-10-30 12:22:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-01-08 14:53:03 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |
Secondary references:
17074 | ETE | R. N. Melchor and S. de Valais. 2006. A review of Triassic tetrapod track assemblages from Argentina. Palaeontology 49(2):355-379 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/B. Allen] |