Cardiel Formation

Geologic formation in Argentina
Cardiel Formation is located in Argentina
Cardiel Formation
Cardiel Formation (Argentina)

The Cardiel Formation is a Maastrichtian geologic formation of the Austral Basin in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. The formation comprises sandstones and conglomerates with abundant tuff beds.[1] The formation is overlain by the Slogget and San Julián Formations and overlies the Divisadero and Kachaike Formations.[2] Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[3]

Paleofauna

  • Clasmodosaurus spatula - Teeth[4] - (sauropod indet)
  • "Loncosaurus argentinus" (ornithopod indet.) - Femur.[5] This genus may have also been found in the Matasiete Formation.

See also

References

  1. ^ Pérez Panera, 2010, p.45
  2. ^ Pérez Panera, 2010, p.52
  3. ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  4. ^ "Table 13.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 271.
  5. ^ "Table 19.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 417.

Bibliography

  • Pérez Panera, Juan Pablo (2010), Sistemática y bioestratigrafía de los nanofósiles calcáreos del Cretácico del sudeste de la Cuenca Austral, Santa Cruz, Argentina (PhD thesis), Universidad Nacional de La Plata, pp. 1–450
  • Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21

Further reading

  • J. E. Powell. 2003. Revision of South American titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 111:1-173