Laguna La Colorada (CPBA): Norian, Argentina
collected by A. Báez & C. Marsicano

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Heterodontosauridae
Heterodontosauria indet. Cooper 1985
2 specimens
    = cf. Heterodontosaurus sp. Crompton and Charig 1962
Báez and Marsicano 2001
CPBA-V-14091, 14092
    = Heterodontosauridae indet. Romer 1966
Irmis et al. 2007
    = Heterodontosaurinae indet. Sereno 2012
Dieudonné et al. 2020
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Santa Cruz
Coordinates: 48.1° South, 68.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:56.7° South, 24.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian
Age range of interval:227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:El Tranquilo Formation:Laguna Colorada
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "slightly below" the layer producing Mussaurus
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary,ferruginous dolomite
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "ferruginous dolomite concretions"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,concretion
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Fragmentation:extreme
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:A. Báez & C. Marsicano
Metadata
Also known as:Estancia Cañadón Largo
Database number:139580
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-02-14 06:39:04 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2013-02-14 06:39:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

44882. A. M. Báez and C. A. Marsicano. 1998. A heterodontosaurian ornithischian in the Upper Triassic of southern Patagonia?. Gondwana 10: Event Stratigraphy of Gondwana, Cape Town, South Africa 27:14-15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

44883 A. M. Báez and C. A. Marsicano. 2001. A heterodontosaurid ornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Triassic of Patagonia. Ameghiniana 38(3):271-279 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
73943 P.-E. Dieudonné, P. Cruzado-Caballero, P. Godefroit and T. Tortosa. 2020. A new phylogeny of cerapodan dinosaurs. Historical Biology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32304 R. B. Irmis, W. G. Parker, S. J. Nesbitt and J. Liu. 2007. Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record. Historical Biology 19(1):3-22 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]