Pichasca (Cretaceous of Chile)

Where: Coquimbo, Chile (30.4° S, 70.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 51.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Viñita Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• bones possibly from units D, E, F - upper part of Viñita Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; volcaniclastic, brown, red sandstone and lenticular, gray, red shale

• "dark reddish-brown sandstones, in part with crossbedding, with interbedded lenticular layers of dark reddish to dark grey shale 30 cm thick...Beds have "volcanic, well-selected clasts"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. M. Casamiquela in 1968

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. M. Casamiquela, J. Corvalán, and F. Franquesa. 1969. Hallazgos de dinosaurios en el Cretácico Superior de Chile. Su importancia cronológica-estratigráfica [Discoveries of dinosaurs in the Upper Cretaceous of Chile. Their chronologic-stratigraphic importance]. Boletin del Instituto de Investigaciones Geológicas 25:1-31 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 51669: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
3-4 fragments of carapace, without ornamentation
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 theropod
teeth; orig. ID Coelurosauria indet.
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
scapulocoracoid, No. 20-VI-68-3
Titanosauridae indet.2 Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
humerus, No. 20-VI-68
Titanosaurinae indet. Lydekker 1893 titanosaurid
caudal vertebra, No. 20-VI-68-2