Toro Toro Formation

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Toro Toro Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Campanian
~80–71  Ma
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Dinosaur ichnofossils in the Toro Toro Formation
Type Geological formation
Unit of Puca Group
Lithology
Primary Sandstone
Other Mudstone, gypsum
Location
Coordinates 18°06′S65°48′W / 18.1°S 65.8°W / -18.1; -65.8 Coordinates: 18°06′S65°48′W / 18.1°S 65.8°W / -18.1; -65.8
Approximate paleocoordinates 21°18′S47°48′W / 21.3°S 47.8°W / -21.3; -47.8
Region Cochabamba Department
CountryBandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg  Bolivia
Extent Potosí Basin
Type section
Named for Torotoro National Park
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Toro Toro Formation (Bolivia)

The Toro Toro Formation is a Late Campanian geologic formation pertaining to the Puca Group of central Bolivia. The porous yellowish medium-to-coarse grained ferruginous (iron-containing) sandstones and mudstones with gypsum intercalations, deposited in a beach environment, preserve many ichnofossils of Ligabueichnium bolivianum , Dromaeopodus sp. , [1] Ornithopoda indet., Theropoda indet. and Titanosauridae indet. [2] The formation has provided the earliest known tracksite of dinosaurs in Bolivia. [3] The Toro Toro Formation represents part of the postrift stage in an alluvial to deltaic environment within the Potosí Basin. The formation is a local equivalent of the Chaunaca Formation. [4] The most famous of the dinosaur tracksites is Cal Orcko, however these are in the El Molino Formation

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References

  1. Apesteguía et al., 2011, p.663
  2. Toro Toro, Pista de Danzas at Fossilworks.org
  3. Lockley et al., 2002, p.389
  4. Apesteguía et al., 2011, p.662

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