Calmu-Co, Fm.Loncoche (IANIGLA-PV) (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (36.5° S, 69.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° S, 55.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Loncoche Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, calcareous grainstone

• Fm. Loncoche en el área de Calmu-Co...."los niveles inferiores de la formación corresponden a ambientes lacustres y fluviales meandriformes (asociaciones de Facies A y B) mientras que los niveles superiores se asignan a depósitos marino-marginales (asociación Facies C)"
• clastic and calcareous facies (mudstones and grainstones)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B.González Riga y E. Previtera in 2001-2004

Primary reference: E. Previtera and B. González Riga. 2008. Vertebrados cretácicos de la Formación Loncoche en Calmu-Co, Mendoza, Argentina. Ameghiniana 45(2):349-359 [S. Devincenzi/S. Devincenzi/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 200126: authorized by Susana Devincenzi, entered by Susana Devincenzi on 18.03.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Chelidae
cf. Yaminuechelys sp., cf. Prochelidella sp.
cf. Yaminuechelys sp. de la Fuente et al. 2001 sideneck turtle
cf. Prochelidella sp. Lapparent de Broin and de la Fuente 2001 sideneck turtle