Km. 227, N. R. 26, Tacuarembó (Jurassic to of Uruguay)

Also known as Batoví Hill

Where: Tacuarembó, Uruguay (31.7° S, 56.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 20.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Batoví Member (Tacuarembó Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• "base of Batoví Member"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• "We will not further elaborate on geological aspects given that they have been recently reviewed in detail (Perea et al., 2009)"

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Colección de vertebrados Fósiles, Facultad de Ciencias collection

Primary reference: D. Perea, M. Soto, G. Verolavsky, S. Martinez, and M. Ubilla. 2009. A Late Jurassic fossil assemblage in Gondwana: biostratigraphy and correlations of the Tacuarembo Formation, Parana Basin, Uruguay. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 28:168-179 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 102298: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Oreska on 13.01.2011, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
Viviparidae indet. Gray 1847 snail
Recrystallised moulds
Bivalvia
 Unionida - Hyriidae
Diplodon sp. Spix 1827 clam
Several bivalve moulds
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
"Ceratodus" tiguidensis lungfish
FC-DPV 1162, almost complete tooth plate; FC-DPV 559, 560, plate fragments,
 Ceratodontiformes - Neoceratodontidae
Asiatoceratodus cf. tiguidiensis Australian lungfish
Tooth plates
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
Two costal plate fragments
 Loricata -
Mesoeucrocodylia indet. Whetstone and Whybrow 1983 crocodilian
Several conical teeth
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
Shed theropod teeth
Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii -
Halecostomi indet. Regan 1903 ray-finned fish
Scales and bone fragments
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Priohybodus arambourgi d'Erasmo 1960 elasmobranch
Isolated teeth