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Anacleto

53 occ. 35 taxa (3 genera) 1 countries
Description

The Anacleto Formation is a geologic formation with outcrops in the Argentine Patagonian provinces of Mendoza, Río Negro, and Neuquén. It is the youngest formation within the Neuquén Group and belongs to the Río Colorado Subgroup. Formerly that subgroup was treated as a formation, and the Anacleto Formation was known as the Anacleto Member.

Genera
3 genera
Neuquensaurus
Neuquensaurus
Dinosaurs
Valid 2 occ. · 86 Ma
Aucasaurus
Aucasaurus
Dinosaurs
Valid 1 occ. · 84 Ma
Teratopodus
Dinosaurs
Valid Ichnogenus Formal taxon 1 occ. · 84 Ma
Anacleto
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Anacleto fm. (Upper Cretaceous) in Auca Mahuida, Neuquen, Argentina. © Damián H. Zanette · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikipedia
Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Geological group / Member
Neuquén 50
Neuquén / Lower 2
Neuquén / Upper 1
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina 53
Depositional environments
Terrestrial indet. 19
Fluvial indet. 12
Crevasse splay 6
Floodplain 6
Pond 4
Small lake 2
Coarse channel fill 2
Wet floodplain 1
Lacustrine indet. 1
Top collectors
R. Wichmann 10
S. Roth 7
Schiller 7
P. Sereno et al. 4
P. Paniceres 3
MPCN 3
ACDP 2
González Riga 2
Calvo 2
J. F. Bonaparte 2
LACEV group 2
L. Macaya 1
Collection activity by decade
1910s 6
1920s 14
1970s 2
1990s 10
2000s 9
2020s 2