ammonites
Calmu-Co, NF4 (facies C) (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as FL4

Where: Mendoza, Argentina (36.8° S, 69.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° S, 55.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Loncoche Formation (Malargüe Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 65.5 Ma)

• facies C

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; intraclastic, calcareous grainstone

• grainstone/limestone with small pelitic clasts at the base

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: E. Previtera and B. J. González Riga. 2008. Vertebrados cretácicos de la Formación Loncoche en Calmu-Co, Mendoza, Argentina [Cretaceous vertebrates from the Loncoche Formation in Calmu-Co, Mendoza, Argentina]. Ameghiniana 45(2):349-359 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 86016: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 23.01.2009