El Cañadón (Permian to of Argentina)

Where: La Pampa, Argentina (38.2° S, 65.9° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° S, 43.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Urre-Lauquen Member (Carapacha Formation), Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: GHUNLPam - Cátedra de Geología Histórica y Regional, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Santa Rosa, Argentina

Primary reference: R. N. Melchor and W. A. S. Sarjeant. 2004. Small Amphibian and Reptile Footprints from the Permian Carapacha Basin, Argentina. Ichnos 11:57-78 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197307: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 02.11.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Cotylosauria -
cf. Varanopus sp.
cf. Varanopus sp. Moodie 1929 tetrapod
GHUNLPam 3283-a, 3291, two incomplete manus-pes sets
Reptilia
 Eureptilia - Captorhinidae
Hyloidichnus bifurcatus
Hyloidichnus bifurcatus Gilmore 1927 eureptile
Several GHUNLPam slabs
Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
Characichnos sp.
Characichnos sp. Whyte and Romano 2001 tetrapod
Several GHUNLPam slabs
Amphibia
  -
Batrachichnus salamandroides, cf. Amphisauropus sp.
Batrachichnus salamandroides Geinitz 1861 tetrapod
Several GHUNLPam slabs
cf. Amphisauropus sp. Haubold 1970 tetrapod
GHUNLPam 3301-I/II, two incomplete footprints