Quebrada de Santo Domingo (1654 m): Late Eocene, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Gruipeda dominguensis
de Valais and Melchor 2008
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Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | La Rioja |
| Coordinates: | 28.5° South, 68.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.6° South, 60.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 3264 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Late Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71 - 33.9 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Santo Domingo | ||||
| Local section: | Quebrada de Santo Domingo | Local bed: | 1654 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: orig. assigned to Late Triassic/Early Jurassic; radiometrically dated to late Eocene | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | desiccation cracks siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 80860 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-05-16 12:38:47 | Last modified: | 2013-03-20 23:29:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-05-16 12:38:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27186. | ETE | S. de Valais and R. N. Melchor. 2008. Ichnotaxonomy of bird-like footprints: an example from the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic of northwest Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(1):145-159 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 45830 | R. N. Melchor, R. Buchwaldt, and S. Bowring. 2013. A Late Eocene date for Late Triassic bird tracks. Nature 495:E1-E2 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |