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El Molino

74 occ. 17 taxa (1 genera) 1 countries
Description

The El Molino Formation is a Maastrichtian geologic formation pertaining to the Puca Group of central Bolivia. The formation comprises fine-grained sandstones and sandy limestones with stromatolites deposited in a shallow marine to lacustrine environment. The formation has provided fossils of Dolichochampsa minima, and ichnofossils of Ankylosauria indet., Ornithopoda indet., Theropoda indet. and Titanosauridae indet. The tracksite of Cal Orcko is the best known example of the ichnofossil locations of the formation. The ichnofossil of Ligabueichnum bolivianum may be attributed to an ankylosaur. The fossil fish species Dasyatis molinoensis is named after the formation.

Genera
1 genera
Dromaeopodus
Dinosaurs
Valid Ichnogenus Formal taxon 1 occ. · 143 Ma
Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Geological group / Member
Puca 45
Puca / Middle 20
Puca / Lower 7
Puca / Upper 1
Puca / 4 1
Top countries
🇧🇴 Bolivia 74
Depositional environments
Terrestrial indet. 57
Large lake 10
paralic indet. 5
Estuary / bay 2
Top collectors
Céspedes 15
J. H. Heymann 10
K. Schuett 10
Suárez 10
G. Leonardi 8
L. Branisa 7
C. Meyer 6
O. Medina 5
A. C. Rocha Campos 5
H. Peredo 5
G. B. Caballero 3
R. P. Cespedes 3
Collection activity by decade
1960s 5
1980s 20
1990s 23
2000s 58
2010s 29