Also known as "[T]hese layers [The locality Yacimiento 2] were called ‘Horizonte Leonense’ or ‘Horizonte Pumense’ by Rusconi (Romer 1960)." López-Arbarello & Zavittieri 2008 (p. 1028)
Where: Mendoza, Argentina (32.8° S, 68.9° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° S, 31.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Potrerillos Formation (Uspallata Group), Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• Potrerillos Formation, Cuyana Basin, lower Upper
•Triassic (Morel et al. 2002b).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the AMNH
• MCNAM-PV, Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas ‘J. C. Moyano’, Mendoza, Argentina
Primary reference: A. López-Arbarello and A. M. Zavattieri. 2008. Systematic revision of Pseudobeaconia Bordas, 1944, and Mendocinichthys Whitley, 1953 (Actinopterygii: 'Perleidiformes') from the Triassic of Argentina. Palaeontology 51(5):1025-1052 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 117883: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Phillip Elliott on 28.09.2011, edited by Christina Feng
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Pasambaya tellecheai Rusconi 1946
Pseudobeaconia celestae n. sp. López-Arbarello and Zavattieri 2008 MCNA-PV 944a ⁄ b (Holotype, complete specimen); AMNH 8282 (Paratype); AMNH 8279 and 8287; MCNA-PV 1238 and 3810–13
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