Cal Orcko tracksite (Cretaceous of Bolivia)

Also known as Cal Orck'o, Cal Orko

Where: Chuquisaca, Bolivia (19.0° S, 65.2° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 51.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: El Molino Formation (Puca Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• tracks at at least 9 stratigraphic levels

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; sandy limestone and shelly/skeletal packstone

• "alkaline perennial and ephemeral lakes with stromatolites"; "mosaic of lacustrine and marginal lacustrine facies...lake basin was shallow, with high productivity and significant evaporation, leading to fluctuating (lowering) of lake levels."
• "sandy limestone bedding plane." "The inner marginal lacustrine facies includes sandy limestones, oncolite-bearing pack- or grainstones and stromatolites/microbialites, showing episodic desiccation features and calcretes that formed under semiarid climatic conditions."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by J. H. Heymann & K. Schuett, Suárez in 1994, 1998, 2002–2003, 2006, 2009, 2015, 2017

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. A. Meyer, D. Hippler, and M. G. Lockley. 2001. The Late Cretaceous vertebrate ichnofacies of Bolivia – facts and implications. VII International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems. Asociación Paleontológica Argentina Publicación Especial 7:133-138 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36234: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.01.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ankylosauria "indet. K"1 Osborn 1923 ankylosaur
morphotype K; T2/3/11, A 1200.01
Ornithopoda "indet. G"1 Marsh 1881 ornithopod
morphotype G
Iguanodontia "indet. H"3 Baur 1891 ornithopod
morphotype H
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae "indet. I"3 hadrosaurid
morphotype I
 Theropoda -
Theropoda "indet. A" Marsh 1881 theropod
larger forms; morphotype A
Theropoda "indet. C"2 Marsh 1881 theropod
smaller forms, morphotype C
Theropoda "indet. B" Marsh 1881 theropod
morphotype B
Aves
 Aves -
? Aves "indet. D"3 bird
morphotype D
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria "indet. E"4 Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
morphotype E (derived titanosaur); S 1260.01; S 1430.01; S 1480.02; S 1520.01; S 1560.01
Calorckosauripus lazari n. gen. n. sp.4 Meyer et al. 2018 sauropod
Morphotype F (basal titanosaur); S 1080.01, S 1080.02; S 1150.01; S 1430.03; S1470.01, S 1480.01, S 1480.04; S 1490.03; S 1490.04
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.4 Kaup 1834 pterosaur
 Loricata -
Crocodyliformes indet.4 crocodilian
teeth
 Squamata -
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.4 Oppel 1811 turtle
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Pucapristis sp.4 Schaeffer 1963 ray