2 km southeast of Cinco Saltos cemetery, facies 1 [MUCP]: Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
Salgado et al. 1997
synonym of Testudines
Reptilia
Dinilysia sp. Woodward 1901
Reptilia - Crocodylia
? Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Salgado et al. 1997
Reptilia
Dryomorpha indet. Sereno 1986
2 specimens
MCS-1, MCS-2
    = Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis Coria and Salgado 1996
Salgado et al. 1997
Reptilia - Saltasauridae
Saltasaurinae indet. Powell 1992
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Río Negro
Coordinates: 38.8° South, 68.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.8° South, 52.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:274 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Neuquén Formation:Anacleto
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Río Colorado subgroup
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification",tool marks,medium,coarse,white conglomeratic mudstone
Secondary lithology:concretionary,green,red carbonaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Bones found in two facies: "1) trough cross stratified sandstones; and 2) red mudstones. Facies 1 is composed of pale yellow to whitish conglomeratic sandstones and sandstones that vary in thickness from 2 to 4 m. The conglomerates grade upward into coarse sandstones. Fine grained, medium bedded, lithic conglomerates and medium to coarse grained lithic sandstones are present. The trough cross bedding is well developed and bet set thicknesses vary from 0.30 to 0.10 m...Facies 2 is composed mainly of thinly bedded red and green mudstones; carbonate nodules are common."
Environment:coarse channel fill
Geology comments: Facies 1: channel-fill deposits; facies 2: floodplain deposits; both within a meadering river system.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:67094
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-11-07 14:28:17 Last modified:2021-04-14 19:05:34
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-07 14:28:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19129.ETE L. Salgado, R. A. Coria, and S. E. Heredia. 1996. Nuevos materiales de ornitópodos (Ornithischia) en la Formación Rio Colorado (Cretácico Superior) de la Provincia de Rio Negro [New materials of ornithopods (Ornithischia) in the Rio Colorado Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Rio Negro province]. Ameghiniana 33(4):471 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

27827ETE I. A. Cerda. 2008. Gastroliths in an ornithopod dinosaur. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(2):351-355 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76392 I. A. Cerda, G. A. Casal, R. D. Martínez and L. M. Ibiricu. 2015. Histological evidence for a supraspinous ligament in sauropod dinosaurs. Royal Society Open Science 2:150369:1-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76422 S. F. Poropat. 2019. Final report. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia 1-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19125ETE L. Salgado, R. A. Coria, and S. E. Heredia. 1997. New materials of Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 71(5):933-940 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]