Cacheuta (Triassic of Argentina)

Also known as Cerro Cacheuta

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (32.8° S, 68.9° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° S, 31.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cacheuta Formation (Uspallata Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Probably Cacheuta Formation, Cuyana Basin

•(Rusconi 1957; Zavattieri et al. 2002a), upper Upper Triassic

•(Morel et al. 2002a).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

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 117937: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Phillip Elliott on 29.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
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Semionotus unicristatus Rusconi 1946
Holotype unknown