Quebrada del Río de las Conchas (Cretaceous of Argentina)

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

• "lacustrine" (Narváez and Sabino 2008)
• "green siltstones, whitish sandstones and micritic limestones"; limestones dominated in the lower part of the illustrated section and alternating "shales" and sandstones (with some conglomerates) in the middle and upper parts (Narváez and Sabino 2008)

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

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia - Panpipidae
Saltenia ibanezi n. gen. n. sp.
Saltenia ibanezi n. gen. n. sp. Reig 1959 frog