Laguna Colorada Formation
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The Laguna Colorada Formation is a geological formation in South America. It dates back to the Late Triassic
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Late Triassic
The Late Triassic is in the geologic timescale the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic period. The corresponding series is known as the Upper Triassic. In the past it was sometimes called the Keuper, after a German lithostratigraphic group that has a roughly corresponding age...
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Vertebrate fauna
Dinosaur tracks geographically located in the Provincia de Santa Cruz.| Dinosaur Dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of... s reported from the Laguna Colorada Formation |
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Material | Notes | Images |
cf. Heterodontosaurus Heterodontosaurus Heterodontosaurus is a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur with prominent canine teeth which lived in the Early Jurassic of South Africa. It was similar to a hypsilophodont in shape, and ate plants, despite its canines.Heterodontosaurus is currently known from specimens of the SAFM from South... sp. |
Geographically located in the Provincia de Santa Cruz. |
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Mussaurus Mussaurus Mussaurus was a genus of herbivorous prosauropod dinosaur that lived in southern Argentina during the Late Triassic Period, about 215 million years ago... |
M. patagonicus |
Geographically located in the Provincia de Santa Cruz. |
"More than [ten] fragmentary to complete skeletons, [four] skulls, juvenile to adult." |
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?Plateosaurus sp. |
Geographically located in the Provincia de Santa Cruz. |
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