Cerro Lisandro Formation
The type locality of the Lisandro Formation is the hill known as Cerro Lisandro in Neuquén Province. This formation conformably overlies the Huincul Formation, and it is in turn overlain by the Portezuelo Formation, which is a part of the Río Neuquén Subgroup.
The Lisandro Formation varies between 35 and 75 metres (115 and 246 ft) thick, the thinnest of the three formations in its subgroup. It is composed of siltstones and claystones, red in color, which have been interpreted as a swampy to fluvial environment. Usually, the red Lisando Formation rocks are easy to distinguish from the greenish or yellowish deposits of the Huincul Formation.
Fossil content
Not many dinosaurs are represented in the Lisandro Formation; other types of animals are frequently found. Fossils documented from this formation are:
- freshwater bivalve molluscs
- fish (Ceratodus and Chaoceratodus)
- turtles
- a carcharodontosaurid theropod
- crocodilians
- an abelisauroid theropod
- "Bayosaurus pubica"
- at least one bird
- ornithopods (including Anabisetia)
- a peirosaurid Bayomesasuchus hernandezi
- a titanosaur sauropod Quetecsaurus rusconii
See also
- List of fossil sites
- Bajo Barreal Formation, contemporaneous formation of the Golfo San Jorge Basin
- Mata Amarilla Formation, contemporaneous formation of the Austral Basin
- List of dinosaur bearing rock formations
References
- ^ Sánchez et al., 2006
- ^ Fossa Mancini et al., 1938
- ^ Leanza et al., 2004, p. 69
- ^ Panzeri, K. M.; Guzmán, F. A. (2024). "Unveiling the histology and anatomy of the lungfish Chaoceratodus portezuelensis (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) from the Portezuelo and Cerro Lisandro formations (Upper Cretaceous) of Argentine Patagonia". Palaeontologia Electronica. 27 (2). 27.2.a42. doi:10.26879/1408.
- ^ Bernardo González Riga, Leonardo Ortiz David (2013). "A new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (Cerro Lisandro Formation) of Mendoza Province, Argentina". Ameghiniana. in press. doi:10.5710/AMGH.24.12.2013.1889. hdl:11336/3819.
Bibliography
- Fossa Mancini, E.; Feruglio, E.; Yussen de Campana, J.C. (1938). "Una reunión de geólogos de YPF y el problema de la terminología estratigráfica" [A YPF geologists' reunion and the problem of stratigraphy terminology]. Boletín de Informaciones Petroleras (in Spanish). 15: 1–67.
- Leanza, H.A.; Apesteguia, S.; Novas, F.E.; De la Fuente, M.S. (2004). "Cretaceous terrestrial beds from the Neuquén Basin (Argentina) and their tetrapod assemblages". Cretaceous Research. 25 (1): 61–87. Bibcode:2004CrRes..25...61L. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2003.10.005. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
- Sánchez, María Lidia; Heredia, Susana; Calvo, Jorge O. (2006). "Paleoambientes sedimentarios del Cretácico Superior de la Formación Plottier (Grupo Neuquén), Departamento Confluencia, Neuquén" [Sedimentary paleoenvironments in the Upper Cretaceous Plottier Formation (Neuquen Group), Confluencia, Neuquén]. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina (in Spanish). 61: 3–18. Retrieved 2019-02-16.