Laguna Colorada Formation

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "check for unknown parameters". The Laguna Colorada Formation is a geological formation of the Austral Basin in Patagonia, Argentina. The formation belongs to the El Tranquilo Group and dates back to the Early Jurassic, with a maximum age of 192.78 ± 0.14 Ma.[1][2]

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaur tracks geographically located in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.[1]

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Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs of the Laguna Colorada Formation
Genus Species Location Material Notes Images
Mussaurus[1][3] M. patagonicus Santa Cruz Province "More than [ten] fragmentary to complete skeletons, [four] skulls, juvenile to adult" A anchisaurian sauropodomorph
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Heterodontosauridae indet.[1] Ineterminate Santa Cruz Province

See also

References

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  1. a b c d Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Triassic, South America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 527–528. Template:ISBN.
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  3. "Table 12.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 235.

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Further reading

  • 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
  • J. F. Bonaparte and M. Vince. 1979. El hallazgo del primer nido de dinosaurios triasicos, (Saurischia, Prosauropoda), Triasico Superior de Patagonia, Argentina [The discovery of the first nest of Triassic dinosaurs (Saurischia, Prosauropoda,) from the Upper Triassic of Patagonia, Argentina]. Ameghiniana 16(1-2):173-182
  • R. M. Casamiquela. 1964. Sobre el hallazgo de dinosaurios triásicos en la Prov. de Santa Cruz [On the discovery of Triassic dinosaurs in Santa Cruz Prov.]. Argentina Austral 35:10-11
  • D. Pol and J. E. Powell. 2007. Skull anatomy of Mussaurus patagonicus (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Patagonia. Historical Biology 19(1):125-144