Liu Malal 3: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Argentina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula georgiana Fritzsche 1919
Casadío et al. 2005
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Ambigostrea clarae (Ihering 1907)
Casadio 1998
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Amphidonte mendozana (Ihering 1907)
Casadio 1998
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Septifer mayai n. sp. Griffin et al. 2008
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Mosasaurinae indet. Gervais 1853
Gasparini et al. 2001 5 elements
GHUNLPam 16.192/96, five vertebral centra
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Plesiosauria indet. (de Blainville 1835)
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
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Malargue Formation:Roca
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
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]