Laguna Colorada Formation Explained

Laguna Colorada Formation
Type:	Geological formation
Period:	Early Jurassic
Age:	Early Jurassic <
Prilithology:	Siltstone
Otherlithology:	dolomite
Region:	Santa Cruz Province
Country:	Argentina
Coordinates:	-48.1°N -68.3°W
Paleocoordinates:	-56.7°N -24.8°W
Unitof:	El Tranquilo Group
Extent:	Austral Basin

The Laguna Colorada Formation is a geological formation of the Austral Basin in Patagonia, Argentina. The formation belongs to the El Tranquilo Group and dates back to the Early Jurassic, with a maximum age of 192.78 ± 0.14 Ma.^{[1] [2]}

Vertebrate paleofauna

Dinosaur tracks geographically located in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.

Dinosaurs of the Laguna Colorada Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Material	Notes	Images
Mussaurus	M. patagonicus	Santa Cruz Province	"More than [ten] fragmentary to complete skeletons, [four] skulls, juvenile to adult"
Heterodontosauridae indet.	Ineterminate	Santa Cruz Province

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

Further reading

• A. M. Báez and C. A. Marsicano. 1998. A heterodontosaurian ornithischian in the Upper Triassic of southern Patagonia?. Gondwana 10: Event Stratigraphy of Gondwana, Cape Town, South Africa 27:14-15
• J. F. Bonaparte and M. Vince. 1979. El hallazgo del primer nido de dinosaurios triasicos, (Saurischia, Prosauropoda), Triasico Superior de Patagonia, Argentina [The discovery of the first nest of Triassic dinosaurs (Saurischia, Prosauropoda,) from the Upper Triassic of Patagonia, Argentina]. Ameghiniana 16(1-2):173-182
• R. M. Casamiquela. 1964. Sobre el hallazgo de dinosaurios triásicos en la Prov. de Santa Cruz [On the discovery of Triassic dinosaurs in Santa Cruz Prov.]. Argentina Austral 35:10-11
• D. Pol and J. E. Powell. 2007. Skull anatomy of Mussaurus patagonicus (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Patagonia. Historical Biology 19(1):125-144

Notes and References

1. Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Triassic, South America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 527–528. .
2. Pol. Diego. Mancuso. Adriana C.. Smith. Roger M. H.. Marsicano. Claudia A.. Ramezani. Jahandar. Cerda. Ignacio A.. Otero. Alejandro. Fernandez. Vincent. 2021-10-21. Earliest evidence of herd-living and age segregation amongst dinosaurs. Scientific Reports. en. 11. 1. 20023. 10.1038/s41598-021-99176-1. 34675327 . 8531321 . 239455925 . 2045-2322. free. 2021NatSR..1120023P .