Cerro Los Hornos (Talenkauen locality): Campanian, Argentina
collected 2000

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Talenkauen santacrucensis n. gen., n. sp. Novas et al. 2004
2 individuals
MPM-PV 10001 plus neonatal teeth
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Santa Cruz
Coordinates: 49.9° South, 72.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.4° South, 58.7° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cerro Fortaleza
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Previously attributed to the Pari Aike Formation, but regarded as the Cerro Fortaleza Formation by Sickman et al. (2018), with a Campanian age (Ghiglione et al. 2021)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray mudstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The specimen was found articulated in a cross–bedded, fining–upward, medium–grained sandstone, interpreted as a fluvial channel body
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:many
Fragmentation:frequent
Encrustation:none
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:February 2000
Collection method comments: MPM, Museo Padre Molina, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz
Metadata
Also known as:Los Hornos Hill, Viedma Lake
Database number:52980
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire
Modifier:F. Aspromonte Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-08-30 09:28:07 Last modified:2023-12-11 07:19:35
Access level:the public Released:2005-08-30 09:28:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
14274.ETE,5% 62240F. E. Novas, A. V. Cambiaso, and A. Ambrosio. 2004. A new basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. Ameghiniana 41(1):75-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

47243 J. I. Canudo, L. Salgado, A. Garrido and J. Carballido. 2013. Primera evidencia de dinosaurios ornitópodos en la base de la Formación Huincul (Cenomaniense Superior-Turoniense, Cuenca Neuquina, Argentina) [First evidence of ornithopod dinosaurs at the base of the Huincul Formation (Cenomanian–upper Turonian, Neuquén Basin, Argentina)]. Geogaceta 53:9-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76413 P. Cruzado-Caballero, L. S. Filippi, A. H. Méndez, A. C. Garrido, and R. D. Juárez Valieri. 2016. New record of ornithopod dinosaur from the Plottier Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Patagonia, Argentina. Annales de Paléontologie 102:145-150 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
75729 P. Cruzado-Caballero, L. S. Filippi, A. H. Méndez, A. C. Garrido, and I. Díaz-Martínez. 2018. First ornithopod remains from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Santonian, Upper Cretaceous), northern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 83:182-193 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82976 V. M. Egerton, F. E. Novas, P. Dodson and K. J. Lacovara. 2011. First occurrence of neonatal ornithopod teeth from South America. Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy 59:10-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32655ETE M. D. Ezcurra, F. L. Agnolin, and F. E. Novas. 2010. An abelisauroid dinosaur with a non-atrophied manus from the Late Cretaceous Pari Aike Formation of southern Patagonia. Zootaxa 2450:1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/F. Aspromonte]
76422 S. F. Poropat. 2019. Final report. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia 1-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]