Also known as Alemania, Puente Morales
Where: Salta, Argentina (25.5° S, 64.7° W: paleocoordinates 28.9° S, 47.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morales Member (Las Curtiembres Formation), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• Late Cretaceous and "not older than Campanian-Maastrichtian" (Narváez and Sabino 2008)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, green, sandy siltstone and unlithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by F. Novas
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
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 92119: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Saltenia ibanezi n. gen. n. sp.
Saltenia ibanezi n. gen. n. sp. Reig 1959 frog |