- Source: La Amarga Formation
The La Amarga Formation is a geologic formation with outcrops in the Argentine provinces of Río Negro, Neuquén, and Mendoza. It is the oldest Cretaceous terrestrial formation in the Neuquén Basin.
The type locality is La Amarga Arroyo and China Muerta Hill. The La Amarga Formation unconformably overlies the marine Agrio Formation of the Mendoza Group. It is in turn overlain by the Lohan Cura Formation, separated by another unconformity.
Composition
There are three members within the La Amarga Formation.
The oldest is the Puesto Antigual Member, which is approximately 28.9 metres (95 ft) thick and consists mainly of sandstone deposited in the channels of a braided river system. Paleosols, or soil deposits, are well-developed.
The Bañados de Caichigüe Member is the next highest, approximately 20.9 metres (69 ft) thick. Alternating limestones, shales, and siltstones make up this member, indicating a lacustrine (lake) environment.
Youngest and thickest is the Piedra Parada Member, approximately 109.4 metres (359 ft) thick in some sections. This member consists of alternating sandstones and siltstones from an ancient alluvial plain, with some swamp and paleosol deposits.
Fossil content
Most of the tetrapod fossils found in the La Amarga come from the Puesto Antigual Member.
= Dinosaurs
== Other tetrapods
=See also
List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
References
= Bibliography
=Galton, Peter M.; Carpenter, Kenneth (2016). "The plated dinosaur Stegosaurus longispinus Gilmore, 1914 (Dinosauria: Ornithischia; Upper Jurassic, western USA), type species of Alcovasaurus n. gen". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 279 (2): 185–208. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2016/0551.
Pereda Suberbiola, Xabier; Galton, Peter M.; Mallison, Heinrich; Novas, Fernando (2012). "A plated dinosaur (Ornithischia, Stegosauria) from the Early Cretaceous of Argentina, South America: an evaluation". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 37 (1): 1–14. doi:10.1080/03115518.2012.702531
Carrano, M.T.; Loewen, M.A.; Sertic, J.J.W. (2011). "New Materials of Masiakasaurus knopfleri Sampson, Carrano, and Forster, 2001, and Implications for the Morphology of the Noasauridae (Theropoda: Ceratosauria)". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 95 (95): 1–53. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.95.1.
Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka, eds. (2004). The Dinosauria, 2nd edition. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 1–880. ISBN 978-0-520-94143-4. Retrieved 2019-02-21. ISBN 0-520-24209-2
Montanelli, S. B (1987). "Presencia de Pterosauria (Reptilia) en la Formación La Amarga (Hauteriviano-Barremiano), Neuquén, Argentina". Ameghiniana. 24: 109–113.
Musacchio, E (1970). "Ostrácodos de la superfamilias Cytheraceae y Darwinulaceae de la Formación La Amarga (Cretácico inferior), provincia del Neuquén, Argentina". Ameghiniana. 7: 301–318.
Further reading
Apesteguía, Sebastián (2007). "The sauropod diversity of the La Amarga Formation (Barremian), Neuquén (Argentina)". Gondwana Research. 12 (4): 533–546. Bibcode:2007GondR..12..533A. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2007.04.007. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
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.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- La Amarga Formation
- List of South American dinosaurs
- Amargasaurus
- Lohan Cura Formation
- Amargatitanis
- Agrio Formation
- Campananeyen
- Zapalasaurus
- List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils
- Vincelestes
