- Source: Asencio Formation
The Asencio Formation is a geological formation in the Paraná Basin of southwestern Uruguay whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian). Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
Vertebrate paleofauna
Neuquensaurus australis
Laplatasaurus araukanicus
Antarctosaurus wichmannianus
= Fossil eggs
=Sphaerovum erbeni
Tacuarembovum oblongum
See also
List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Uruguay
Adamantina Formation
Allen Formation
Marília Formation
References
= Bibliography
=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
F. v. Huene. 1929. Terrestrische Oberkreide in Uruguay [The terrestrial Upper Cretaceous in Uruguay]. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie Abteilung B 1929:107-112