Estancia Laguna Manantiales tracksite (9.2 m): Callovian - Oxfordian, Argentina
collected by R. M. Casamiquela, J. F. Bonaparte 1960-1980

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Ameghinichnus manantialensis n. sp. De Valais 2009
De Valais 2009
MLP 60-X-31-13, 65-XI-12-1, MPEF-IC 1028, MPM-Pic-2098
Ameghinichnus patagonicus n. gen., n. sp. Casamiquela 1961
114 specimens
MLP 60-X-31-1, 3-4, 8, 10, 13-15, 65-XI-12-1, 4, 65-XI-13-1, 8; PVL 2300-2304, 2742, 2743, 3684-85, 3688-89, 3691-96, 3698-99; MACN 18.528, 18.616-623, 18.628
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Coelurosauria indet. (Huene 1914)
Leonardi 1994 1 specimen
MLP 60-X-31-12
    = Anchisauripodidae indet. Lull 1904
Haubold 1971
    = ? Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858
de Valais 2011
Reptilia
Sarmientichnus scagliai n. gen., n. sp. Casamiquela 1964
Casamiquela 1964 8 specimens
MLP 60-X-31-1-A, B, C, 2, 65-XI-12-1
Wildeichnus navesi n. gen., n. sp. Casamiquela 1964
Casamiquela 1964 16 specimens
MLP 60-X-31-5, 9, 11, 65-XI-12-1, 1/2; PVL 2302B, 2305, 3700, 3701
Delatorrichnus goyenechei n. gen., n. sp. Casamiquela 1964
Casamiquela 1964 17 specimens
MLP 60-X-31-6, 7, 65-XI-12-1/1, 1/2, 1/3; MACN 18.615; PVL 3677, 3690, 3682
Insecta - Coleoptera
? Coleoptera indet. Linnaeus 1758
Leonardi 1994
trackway
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Santa Cruz
Coordinates: 47.6° South, 68.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.2° South, 27.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Callovian - Oxfordian
Age range of interval:165.30000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:La Matilde
Local section:Laguna Manantiales Local bed:9.2 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Matildense"; "probably" lower-middle Callovian but could be Oxfordian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:very fine,tuffaceous,green,red,white sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "white, greenish or pinkish tuffaceous sandstone"; "impressed in tuffaceous, parallel-stratified, very fine-grained sandstone and overlain by similar layers."
Environment:eolian indet.
Geology comments: "desert environment"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:MLP
Collectors:R. M. Casamiquela, J. F. Bonaparte Collection dates:1960-1980
Metadata
Database number:85570
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-01-09 14:15:44 Last modified:2022-10-28 14:31:31
Access level:the public Released:2009-01-09 14:15:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
69367. R. M. Casamiquela. 1961. Sobre la presencia de un mamífero en el primer elenco (icnologico) de vertebrados del Jurásico de la Patagonia [On the presence of a mammal on the first vertebrate cast (ichnological) from the Jurassic of Patagonia]. Physis 22(63):225-233 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

55106 J. F. Bonaparte. 1980. Los vertebrados tetrápodos del limite Jurásico–Cretácico [The tetrapod vertebrates from the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary]. Actas del Segundo Congreso Argentino de Paleontología y Bioestratigrafía y Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología 5:77-88 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55099 J. F. Bonaparte. 1981. Inventario de los vertebrados Jurásicos de América del Sur [Inventory of the Jurassic vertebrates of South America]. In W. Volkheimer & E. A. Musaccio (ed.), Cuencas Sedimentarias del Jurásico y Cretácico de América del Sur 2:661-684 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
48114 J. O. Calvo. 2007. Ichnology. In Z. B. Gasparini, L. Sangado & R. A. Coria (eds.), Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles 314-334 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82948 R. M. Casamiquela. 1961. El hallazgo del primer elenco (icnológico) Jurásico de vertebrados terrestres de Latinoamerica (noticia) [The discovery of the first Jurassic (ichnological) cast of terrestrial vertebrates in Latin America (news)]. Revista de la Asociación Geología Argentina 15(1-2):5-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33371 R. M. Casamiquela. 1964. Estudios Icnológicos. Problemas y Métodos de la Icnología con Aplicación al Estudio de Pisadas Mesozoicas (Reptilia, Mammalia) de la Patagonia [Ichnological Studies. Problems and Methods of Ichnology with Application to the Study of Mesozoic Trackways (Reptilia, Mammalia) from Patagonia] 1-229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76468 S. De Valais. 2009. Ichnotaxonomic revision of Ameghinichnus, a mammalian ichnogenus from the Middle Jurassic La Matilde Formation, Santa Cruz province, Argentina. Zootaxa 2203:1-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43434 S. de Valais. 2011. Revision of dinosaur ichnotaxa from the La Matilde Formation (Middle Jurassic), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Ameghiniana 48(1):28-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76467 S. De Valais and R. Melchor. 2003. Nuevos aportes sobre la icnofauna de la Formación La Matilde (Jurásico Medio), provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina [New contributions on the ichnofauna of the La Matilde Formation (Middle Jurassic), Santa Cruz province, Argentina]. Ameghiniana 40(4 (suppl.)):53R-54R [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29189ETE H. Haubold. 1971. In O. Kuhn (ed.), Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Part 18. Ichnia Amphibiorum et Reptiliorum Fossilium 1-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78326 K. J. Houck, M. J. Lockley, and M. Avanzini. 2009. A survey of tetrapod tracksites preserved in pyroclastic sediments, with special reference to footprints of hominids, other mammals and birds. Ichnos 16:76-97 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62875 G. Leonardi. 1981. As localidades com rastros fósseis de tetrápodes na América Latina [Localities with fossil tetrapod tracks in Latin America]. In Y. T. Sanguinetti (ed.), Anais II Congresso Latino-Americano de Paleontologia 2:929-940 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
59104 G. Leonardi. 1989. Inventory and statistics of the South American dinosaurian ichnofauna and its paleobiological interpretation. In D. D. Gillette & M. G. Lockley (ed.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces 165-178 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14677ETE G. Leonardi. 1994. Annotated Atlas of South America Tetrapod Footprints (Devonian to Holocene) with an Appendix on Mexico and Central America. . República Federativa do Brasil, Ministério de Minas e Energia, Secretaria de Minas e Metalurgia, Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais, Brasília 1-248 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/E. Dunne]
62067 F. E. Novas. 1997. South American dinosaurs. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 678-689 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
45986 A. Otero and M. Reguero. 2013. Dinosaurs (Reptilia, Archosauria) at Museo de La Plata, Argentina: annotated catalogue of the type material and Antarctic specimens. Palaeontologia Electronica 16(1):3T:1-24 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
42583 E. C. Rainforth and M. G. Lockley. 1996. Tracks of diminutive dinosaurs and hopping mammals from the Jurassic of North and South America. In M. Morales (ed.), The Continental Jurassic. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60:265-269 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]