Also known as Acay Oeste
Where: Salta, Argentina (24.3° S, 66.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° S, 52.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Yacoraite Formation (Salta Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Situated a few metres below the contact with the Mealla Formation, Santa Barbara Subgroup
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MLP
Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte, J. A. Salfity, G. Bossi and J. E. Powell. 1977. Hallazgo de dinosaurios y aves cretacicas en la Formación Lecho de El Brete (Salta), proximo al limite con Tucumán [Discovery of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds in the Lecho Formation of El Brete (Salta), near the border with Tucumán]. Acta Geològica Lilloana 14:5-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 114767: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 24.08.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritellidae indet. Lovén 1847 turret shell | |
Reptilia | |
? Saurischia indet. saurischian | |
Dolichochampsa minima Gasparini and Buffetaut 1980 crocodilian | |
Actinopteri | |