Liu Malal 3: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Argentina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula georgiana
Fritzsche 1919
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Casadío et al. 2005 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Flemingostreidae
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Ambigostrea clarae
(Ihering 1907)
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Casadio 1998 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Amphidonte mendozana
(Ihering 1907)
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Casadio 1998 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Septifer mayai n. sp.
Griffin et al. 2008
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Mosasaurinae indet.
Gervais 1853
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Gasparini et al. 2001 | 5 elements | ||||||||
GHUNLPam 16.192/96, five vertebral centra | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosauria indet.
(de Blainville 1835)
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Gasparini et al. 2001 | 1 element | ||||||||
GHUNLPam 16.791, fragment of a vertebral centrum | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Mendoza |
Coordinates: | 35.9° South, 69.8° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 38.1° South, 57.5° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | planar lamination,fine,medium,shelly/skeletal lithified "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Limestones. From the published stratigraphic section: predominately sequences of course grained mudstone, wackestone, packstone and grainstone with medium grained shale and fine to medium grained sandstone with some planar bedding and fossils. | |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 106075 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Sessa, E. Vlachos, P. Mannion | Enterer: | L. Eccles, J. Tennant, E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | ||
Created: | 2011-03-02 09:33:01 | Last modified: | 2021-04-20 05:25:10 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-03-02 09:33:01 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
35334. | M. Griffin, A. Parras, and S. Casadío. 2008. Late Maastrichtian-Danian Mytilids and Pinnids (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from Northern Patagonia, Argentina. Ameghiniana 45(1):139-152 [J. Sessa/L. Eccles/J. Sessa] |
Secondary references:
85732 | S. Casadio. 1998. Las ostras del límite Cretácico-Paleógeno de la cuenca Neuquina (Argentina). Su importancia bioestratigráfica y paleobiogeográfica. Ameghiniana 35(4):449-471 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
36367 | S. Casadío, M. Griffin, and A. Parras. 2005. Camptonectes and Plicatula (Bivalvia, Pteriomorphia) from the Upper Maastrichtian of northrern Patagonia: palaeobiogeographic implications. Cretaceous Research 26(4):507-524 [J. Sessa/L. Eccles/F. Aspromonte] | |
46158 | Z. Gasparini, S. Casadio, M. Fernandez and L. Salgado. 2001. Marine reptiles from the Late Cretaceous of northern Patagonia. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 14(1):51-60 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/F. Aspromonte] |