Pterosaur tracks from the upper cretaceous Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Basin), Northern Patagonia, Argentina: insights into campanian pterosaur diversity in Gondwana

The Campanian Anacleto Formation holds an abundant and diverse ichnofossil and body-fossil vertebrate record. Despite the striking diversity of this record, pterosaur fossils had never been described from the unit. Here, we report four pterosaur manus tracks from fluvial red beds cropping out in the...

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Autores: Díaz Martínez, Ignacio|||0000-0001-5301-8384, Heredia, Arturo M., González, Santiago N., Canale, Nerina, Valais, Silvina de, Cónsole-Gonella, Carlos A., Montes, Romina M., Caratelli, Martina, Urzagasti-Torres, Sofía, Fischer, Geraldine, Lecuona, Agustina, Paniceres, Pablo, Salgado, Leonardo, Citton, Paolo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Pterosauria
South America
Ichnology
Cretaceous
Fluvial environment
Neuquén Group
Vertebrate diversity
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spelling Pterosaur tracks from the upper cretaceous Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Basin), Northern Patagonia, Argentina: insights into campanian pterosaur diversity in GondwanaDíaz Martínez, Ignacio|||0000-0001-5301-8384Heredia, Arturo M.González, Santiago N.Canale, NerinaValais, Silvina deCónsole-Gonella, Carlos A.Montes, Romina M.Caratelli, MartinaUrzagasti-Torres, SofíaFischer, GeraldineLecuona, AgustinaPaniceres, PabloSalgado, LeonardoCitton, PaoloPterosauriaSouth AmericaIchnologyCretaceousFluvial environmentNeuquén GroupVertebrate diversityThe Campanian Anacleto Formation holds an abundant and diverse ichnofossil and body-fossil vertebrate record. Despite the striking diversity of this record, pterosaur fossils had never been described from the unit. Here, we report four pterosaur manus tracks from fluvial red beds cropping out in the Área Natural Protegida Municipal Paso Córdoba (Río Negro Province, northern Patagonia, Argentina). Tracks are longer than wide, tridactyl with digit impressions of different lengths (I < II < III), anteriorly directed and laterally asymmetrical. Being on loose slabs and lacking direct examination of pes morphology, the material is classified as undetermined pterosaur tracks. The new find represents the first occurrence of pterosaurs from the lower-middle Campanian of Argentina and one of the few evidences from South America for this time interval. In addition, it is one of the few ichnological pterosaur records from Gondwana, thus shedding light on the palaeobiogeography of this clade during the latest Cretaceous. Pterosaur tracks from the Anacleto Formation allow us to integrate the body-fossil record from the unit and to add a new component, along with birds, to the flying archosaur fauna coexisting with non-avian dinosaurs, notosuchians, chelonians, squamates and mammals in the Campanian of northern Patagonia.This research has been funded by projects PI UNRN 40-A-312 (LS), PI UNRN 40-A-781 (SdV), PI UNRN 40-A-910 (ID-M), PICT 2018-01087 (PC), and the Paleontological Society Arthur James Boucot Research Grant 2022 (AMH). ID-M funded by Unión Europea-NextGenerationEU "Requalification of Spanish university system for 2021–2022" in the UPV-EHU, and supported by a Ramón y Cajal fellowship (RYC-2022) and by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain.MDPI AGUniversidad de Cantabria20222022-11-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://hdl.handle.net/10902/32674Diversity, 2022, 14(11), 1007reponame:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabriainstname:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/326742026-06-02T12:39:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Pterosaur tracks from the upper cretaceous Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Basin), Northern Patagonia, Argentina: insights into campanian pterosaur diversity in Gondwana
title Pterosaur tracks from the upper cretaceous Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Basin), Northern Patagonia, Argentina: insights into campanian pterosaur diversity in Gondwana
spellingShingle Pterosaur tracks from the upper cretaceous Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Basin), Northern Patagonia, Argentina: insights into campanian pterosaur diversity in Gondwana
Díaz Martínez, Ignacio|||0000-0001-5301-8384
Pterosauria
South America
Ichnology
Cretaceous
Fluvial environment
Neuquén Group
Vertebrate diversity
title_short Pterosaur tracks from the upper cretaceous Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Basin), Northern Patagonia, Argentina: insights into campanian pterosaur diversity in Gondwana
title_full Pterosaur tracks from the upper cretaceous Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Basin), Northern Patagonia, Argentina: insights into campanian pterosaur diversity in Gondwana
title_fullStr Pterosaur tracks from the upper cretaceous Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Basin), Northern Patagonia, Argentina: insights into campanian pterosaur diversity in Gondwana
title_full_unstemmed Pterosaur tracks from the upper cretaceous Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Basin), Northern Patagonia, Argentina: insights into campanian pterosaur diversity in Gondwana
title_sort Pterosaur tracks from the upper cretaceous Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Basin), Northern Patagonia, Argentina: insights into campanian pterosaur diversity in Gondwana
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Díaz Martínez, Ignacio|||0000-0001-5301-8384
Heredia, Arturo M.
González, Santiago N.
Canale, Nerina
Valais, Silvina de
Cónsole-Gonella, Carlos A.
Montes, Romina M.
Caratelli, Martina
Urzagasti-Torres, Sofía
Fischer, Geraldine
Lecuona, Agustina
Paniceres, Pablo
Salgado, Leonardo
Citton, Paolo
author Díaz Martínez, Ignacio|||0000-0001-5301-8384
author_facet Díaz Martínez, Ignacio|||0000-0001-5301-8384
Heredia, Arturo M.
González, Santiago N.
Canale, Nerina
Valais, Silvina de
Cónsole-Gonella, Carlos A.
Montes, Romina M.
Caratelli, Martina
Urzagasti-Torres, Sofía
Fischer, Geraldine
Lecuona, Agustina
Paniceres, Pablo
Salgado, Leonardo
Citton, Paolo
author_role author
author2 Heredia, Arturo M.
González, Santiago N.
Canale, Nerina
Valais, Silvina de
Cónsole-Gonella, Carlos A.
Montes, Romina M.
Caratelli, Martina
Urzagasti-Torres, Sofía
Fischer, Geraldine
Lecuona, Agustina
Paniceres, Pablo
Salgado, Leonardo
Citton, Paolo
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad de Cantabria
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Pterosauria
South America
Ichnology
Cretaceous
Fluvial environment
Neuquén Group
Vertebrate diversity
topic Pterosauria
South America
Ichnology
Cretaceous
Fluvial environment
Neuquén Group
Vertebrate diversity
description The Campanian Anacleto Formation holds an abundant and diverse ichnofossil and body-fossil vertebrate record. Despite the striking diversity of this record, pterosaur fossils had never been described from the unit. Here, we report four pterosaur manus tracks from fluvial red beds cropping out in the Área Natural Protegida Municipal Paso Córdoba (Río Negro Province, northern Patagonia, Argentina). Tracks are longer than wide, tridactyl with digit impressions of different lengths (I < II < III), anteriorly directed and laterally asymmetrical. Being on loose slabs and lacking direct examination of pes morphology, the material is classified as undetermined pterosaur tracks. The new find represents the first occurrence of pterosaurs from the lower-middle Campanian of Argentina and one of the few evidences from South America for this time interval. In addition, it is one of the few ichnological pterosaur records from Gondwana, thus shedding light on the palaeobiogeography of this clade during the latest Cretaceous. Pterosaur tracks from the Anacleto Formation allow us to integrate the body-fossil record from the unit and to add a new component, along with birds, to the flying archosaur fauna coexisting with non-avian dinosaurs, notosuchians, chelonians, squamates and mammals in the Campanian of northern Patagonia.
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