300 m West of the Piletas de El Challao (Triassic of Argentina)

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (32.8° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.5° S, 34.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Potrerillos Formation (Uspallata Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Potrerillos Formation, Cuyana Basin, lower Upper

•Triassic (Morel et al. 2002b).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: A. López-Arbarello, O. W. R. Rauhut, and E. Cerdeño. 2010. The Triassic fish faunas of the Cuyana Basin, Western Argentina. Palaeontology 53:249-276 [M. Clapham/P. Elliott]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117888: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Phillip Elliott on 28.09.2011, edited by Christina Feng

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
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Neochallaia leonensis Rusconi 1952
MCNAM-PV 2147 (holotype); MCNAM-PV 2160 )Paratype, lost); MCNAM-PV 2147