Hornitos
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Hornitos Formation is a Campanian geologic formation of the Algarrobal Basin in the Atacama Region of northern Chile. The formation comprises limestones, sandstones, conglomerates, marls and tuff. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, including the sauropod Arackar licanantay.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 5
Hornitos, Cerro Algarrobito : Atacama - ? 9498 55605 85633 Chañarcillo quadrangle, south-central third of the Atacama region, Chile. 2.5 km SE of Cerro Algarrobito. Altitude estimated from map.- Southeast of Cerro Algarrobito : Atacama - ? 13712 41449 55571 55605 SE corner of Cuadrángulo Chañarcillo, S-central area of region Atacama III, in unnamed main creek about 2.5 km SE of the Cerro Algarrobito. Near Chañarcillo.
- Quebrada La Higuera : Atacama - ? 75813 85633 La Higuera ravine, Quebrada La Higuera approx. 75 km south Copiapó city, Atacama Region, northern Chile
- Localidad 13 : Copiapó - Copiapó 78437
- Localidad 35, SNGM-1 : Copiapó - Tierra Amarilla 78437
Publication(s)
La base comprend 8 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 G. Chong Diaz. 1985. Hallazgo de restos oseos de dinosaurios en la Formación Hornitos – Tercera Region de Atacama – Chile. IV Congreso Geologico Chileno
- ↑1 2 P. Salinas, L. G. Marshall, and P. Sepúlveda. 1991. Vertebrados continentales del Paleozoico y Mesozoico de Chile [Continental vertebrates of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic of Chile]. Actas del VI Congreso Geológicao Chileno, Viña del Mar
- ↑1 2 3 J. Iriarte, K. Moreno, and D. Rubilar, A. Vargas. 1999. A titanosaurid from the Quebrada La Higuera Formation (Upper Cretaceous), III Región, Chile. Ameghiniana 36(1):102
- ↑1 2 P. Salinas, P. Sepúlveda, and L. G. Marshall. 1991. Hallazgo de restos oseos de dinosaurios (saurópodos) en la Formación Pajonales (Cretácico Superior), Sierra de Almeyda, Región de Antofagasta, Chile: implicancia cronológica [Discovery of skeletal remains of dinosaurs (sauropods) in the Pajonales Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Sierra de Almeyda, Antofagasta Region, Chile: chronological implications]. 6e Congreso Geológico Chileño, Viña del Mar. Resumenes Expandidos. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Mineria, Chile
- ↑1 J. E. Powell. 2003. Revision of South American titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 111:1-173
- ↑1 D. Rubilar-Rogers, R. A. Otero, and R. E. Yury-Yáñez, A. O. Vargas, C. S. Gutstein. 2012. An overview of the dinosaur fossil record from Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 37:242-255 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2012.03.003)
- ↑1 D. Rubilar-Rogers, A. O. Vargas, and B. González Riga, S. Soto-Acuña, J. Alarcón-Muñoz, J. Iriarte-Díaz, C. Arévalo, C. S. Gutstein. 2021. Arackar licanantay gen. et sp. nov. a new lithostrotian (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Atacama Region, northern Chile. Cretaceous Research (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104802)
- ↑1 2 3 4 C. Arévalo. 2005. Carta Los Loros, Región de Atacama, Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No 92, 53 p, 1 mapa escala 1:100.000, Santiago.
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