Salitral Moreno (NH3): Late Campanian - Early Maastrichtian, Argentina
collected 1995

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Faveoloolithidae
? Faveoloolithidae indet. Zhao and Ding 1976
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Río Negro
Coordinates: 39.3° South, 67.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.1° South, 53.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:221 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian - Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7 - Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Late Campanian - Early Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Malargüe Formation:Allen Member:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:paleosol/pedogenic sandy lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sandy micritic limestone with rhizoliths
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Fragmentation:extreme
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:Mar 1995
Metadata
Database number:219351
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-04-07 10:17:05 Last modified:2021-04-07 10:17:05
Access level:the public Released:2021-04-07 10:17:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
76257. M. E. Simón. 2006. Cáscaras de huevos de dinosaurios de la Formación Allen (Campaniano-Maastrichtiano), en Salitral Moreno, provincia de Río Negro, Argentina [Dinosaur eggshells from the Allen Formation (Campanian–Maastrichtian), in Salitral Moreno, Río Negro province, Argentina]. Ameghiniana 43(3):513-528 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]