The Chañares formation: A window to a Middle Triassic tetrapod community

Lethaia

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 244-265

  Mancuso, Adriana C ^a   Gaetano, Leandro C ^b   Leardi, Juan M ^b   Abdala, Fernando ^c   Arcucci, Andrea B ^d  

^a CCT CONICET   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cha ares formation; Community reconstruction; Ischigualasto villa union basin; Ladinian faunas; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FAUNA; LADINIAN; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; REPTILE; TAPHONOMY; TRIASSIC; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 84896088945     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/let.12055     Document Type: Article

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