northeast of Cinco Saltos: Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian, Argentina
collected by L. Salgado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis
Coria and Salgado 1996
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| MCS-Pv 111, 112 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Río Negro |
| Coordinates: | 38.8° South, 68.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.7° South, 52.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| 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: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",medium,coarse poorly lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a friable, mediun- to coarse-grained, quartzose sandstone" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collectors: | L. Salgado |
Metadata
| Database number: | 82494 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-07-28 08:38:07 | Last modified: | 2021-04-14 19:05:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-07-28 08:38:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27827. | ETE | I. A. Cerda. 2008. Gastroliths in an ornithopod dinosaur. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(2):351-355 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |