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The Coli Toro Member is a
Campanian The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). In chronostratigraphy, it is the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous Series. Campa ...
geologic
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in
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Dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic Geological period, period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the #Evolutio ...
remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
.Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607. The
sandstone Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...
s of the formation were deposited in a
lacustrine A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from t ...
environment. The formation in later publications has been reassigned as the Coli Toro Member at the basal levels of the Los Alamitos Formation, containing fossil remains of '' Sulcusuchus erraini''.Cari-Laufqen Grande Pond
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.org The formation partly overlies the
Angostura Colorada Formation The Angostura Colorada Formation is a Campanian to Maastrichtian geologic formation of the Neuquén Basin and North Patagonian Massif in the Río Negro Province of Argentina. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils ...
.Ottone, 2009, p.377


See also

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List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations This list of dinosaur-bearing rock formations is a list of geologic formations in which dinosaur fossils have been documented. * List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils * List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur trace fossils ** ...
** List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils


References


Bibliography

* * {{citation , last1=Weishampel , first1=David B. , author2-link=Peter Dodson , last2=Dodson , first2=Peter , author3-link=Halszka Osmólska , last3=Osmólska , first3=Halszka , year=2004 , title=The Dinosauria, 2nd edition , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtZFDb_iw40C , publisher=Berkeley: University of California Press , pages=1–880 , accessdate=2019-02-21 , isbn=0-520-24209-2 , author1-link=David B. Weishampel


Further reading

* R. M. Casamiquela. 1964. Sobre un dinosaurio hadrosáurido de la Argentina. Ameghiniana 3(9):285-312 * J. O'Gorman and Z. Gasparini. 2013. Revision of Sulcusuchus erraini (Sauropterygia, Polycotylidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. Alcheringa 37(2):163-176 Geologic formations of Argentina Upper Cretaceous Series of South America Cretaceous Argentina Campanian Stage Sandstone formations Lacustrine deposits Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of South America Paleontology in Argentina Formations Geology of Río Negro Province Geological members