Calmu-Co, Fm.Loncoche (IANIGLA-PV): Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Argentina
collected by B.González Riga y E. Previtera 2001-2004

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelidae
cf. Yaminuechelys sp. de la Fuente et al. 2001
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Mendoza County: Malargüe
Coordinates: 36.5° South, 69.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.1° South, 55.1° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Loncoche
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: clastic and calcareous facies (mudstones and grainstones)
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: 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)"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:B.González Riga y E. Previtera Collection dates:2001-2004
Metadata
Database number:200126
Authorizer:S. Devincenzi Enterer:S. Devincenzi
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-03-18 11:51:54 Last modified:2021-04-16 10:13:11
Access level:the public Released:2019-03-18 11:51:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
68207. 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]

Secondary references:

72551 G. G. Puebla, B. A. Vento, and M. B. Prámparo. 2019. An aquatic angiosperm of the Late Cretaceous, Mendoza Province, central-western Argentina: its phylogenetic position in Araceae. Historical Biology 1-9 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/O. Alfaro]