Cañadón del Gato (ACDP-MUCP): Late/Upper Cenomanian - Turonian, Argentina
collected by R. Coria et al. 1996-2001
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Carcharodontosauridae
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Carcharodontosauridae indet.
Stromer 1931
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7 individuals | |||||||||
| 7-9 estimated; MCF PVPH-108 (7 measurements) | ||||||||||
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= Mapusaurus roseae n. gen., n. sp.
Coria and Currie 2006
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Coria and Currie 2006 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Neuquén |
| Coordinates: | 39.1° South, 69.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.8° South, 46.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 796 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Cenomanian - Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a multistoried sheet-sandstone of channel origin" | |
| Environment: | "channel" |
| Geology comments: "The depositional environment has been interpreted as an ephemeral and/or seasonal channel deposit within a semiarid or arid palaeoenvironment." | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | -bonebed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Feeding/predation traces: | fractures |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | R. Coria et al. | Collection dates: | 1996-2001 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Las Cortaderas | ||
| Database number: | 55351 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano, K. Maguire |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-10-11 19:55:27 | Last modified: | 2022-09-27 15:25:18 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-10-11 19:55:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14845. | ETE | R. A. Coria and P. J. Currie. 1997. A new theropod from the Río Limay Formation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3, suppl.):40A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 46885 | P. R. Bell and R. A. Coria. 2013. Palaeopathological survey of a population of Mapusaurus (Theropoda: Carcharodontosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous Huincul Formation, Argentina. PLoS ONE 8(5):e63409:1-6 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 17069 | ETE | R. A. Coria and P. J. Currie. 2006. A new carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina. Geodiversitas 28(1):71-118 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |
| 82725 | D. A. Eberth, P. J. Currie, R. A. Coria, A. C. Garrido, and J.-P. Zonneveld. 2000. Large-theropod bonebed, Neuquén, Argentina: paleoecological importance. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3 (suppl.)):39A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |