Mina La Continental, tracksite I (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (37.9° S, 70.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 34.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Agua de la Mula Member (Agrio Formation), Late/Upper Hauterivian to Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 125.5 Ma)

• uppermost 30 m of member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; burrowed, dolomitic wackestone and burrowed mudstone

• "shoreface to offshore paleoenvironments on a storm-dominated, shallow marine ramp"
• sequence of (a) pelites and mudstones, (b) sandstones and siltstones, (c) dolomitized mudstones/wackestones/packstones, (d) oolitic grainstones/packstones, and (f) sandy limestones.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. J. Pazos, D. G. Lazo, M. A. Tunik, C. A. Marsicano, D. E. Fernández and M. B. Aguirre-Urreta. 2012. Paleoenvironmental framework of dinosaur tracksites and other ichnofossils in Early Cretaceous mixed siliciclastic-carbonate deposits in the Neuquén Basin, northern Patagonia (Argentina). Gondwana Research 22:1125-1140 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154108: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.01.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamididae indet. Adams and Adams 1854 horn snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
cf. Lissochilus "sp. nov." Zittel 1882 snail
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Steinmanella vacaensis Weawer 1931 clam
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
cf. Therangospodus pandemicus Lockley et al. 2000 theropod
 Ichnofossils -
Rhizocorallium sp. Zenker 1836
Gyrochorte comosa
CPBA 20687
Ophiomorpha sp. Lundgren 1891
Kouphichnium sp. Nopcsa 1923
CPBA 20685
Arenicolites sp. Salter 1857