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The Cardiel Formation is a Maastrichtian geologic formation of the Austral Basin in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. The formation comprises sandstones and conglomerates with abundant tuff beds. [1] The formation is overlain by the Slogget and San Julián Formations and overlies the Divisadero and Kachaike Formations. [2]
Geologic formations of South America, by geologic time scale divisions. Subcategories. This category has the following 28 subcategories, out of 28 total. ...
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils.Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find, while others are notable for the large number of fossils found there.
Allen Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian to Maastrichtian) Argentina: Belongs to the Austrokritosauria, a clade of hadrosaurids endemic to South America [18] Bonatitan: 2004 Allen Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian to Maastrichtian) Argentina: Analysis of its inner ear suggests a decreased range of head movements compared to other ...
Because of its unique fauna, the Santa Lucía Formation at Tiupampa has been chosen as the earliest South American land mammal age giving rise to the Tiupampan. At the Parotani tracksite, poorly preserved ichnofossils were found in the Maastrichtian part of the formation, left possibly by a carnosaur. [7]
A tepui / ˈ t ɛ p w i /, or tepuy (Spanish:), is a table-top mountain or mesa found in South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana.The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the Pemon, the indigenous people who inhabit the Gran Sabana.
Ischigualasto was the first formation reported to host distinctive Onslow province species in South America, and Western Gondwana as a whole. It helps to support the idea that the Onslow province rings around the middle latitudes of the entire Southern Hemisphere, rather than just the vicinity of the Tethys Sea.
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