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El Ministerio Quarry, Los Catutos: Middle Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian, Argentina

Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Neuquén
Coordinates: 38.8° South, 70.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.0° South, 32.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Tithonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 6
Key time interval:Middle Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian Ammonoid zone: Windhauseniceras internispinosum
Age range of interval:150.8 - 145.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vaca Muerta Member:Los Catutos
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Shallow sea (10-30 m) no more than 100 km from the eastern coast of the Neuquen Basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: MOZ: Museo de la Direccion Provincial de Mineria, "Prof. Dr. Juan Olsacher,", Zapala, Neuquen
Metadata
Database number:92122
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-11-02 01:45:42 Last modified:2009-11-02 02:44:36
Access level:the public Released:2009-11-02 01:45:42
Reference information
Primary reference:
31031 Z. Gasparini, H. Leanza, and I. Garate Zubillaga. 1987. Un pterosaurio de las calizas litográficas tithonianas del área de Los Catutos, Neuquén, Argentina. Ameghiniana 24:141-143 [R. Butler/R. Butler/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

31030 L. Codorniú, Z. Gasparini, and A. Paulina-Carabajal. 2006. A late Jurassic pterosaur (Reptilia, Pterodactyloidea) from northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 20:383-389 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
30953 L. Codorniú and Z. Gasparini. 2007. Pterosauria. In Z. Gasparini, L. Salgado, R. A. Coria (eds.), Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN 143-166 [R. Butler/R. Butler]