Tacuarembó Formation

The Tacuarembó Formation is a Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) geologic formation of the eponymous department in northern Uruguay. The fluvial to lacustrine sandstones, siltstones and mudstones preserve ichnofossils, turtles, crocodylomorphs, fish and invertebrates (bivalves and gastropods).

Fossil content

The following fossils have been reported from the formation:

• Reptiles
• Meridiosaurus vallisparadisi
• Tacuarembemys kusterae
• Abelisauridae indet.
• Ceratosaurus sp.
• Coelurosauria indet.
• Mesoeucrocodylia indet.
• Testudines indet.
• Tacuarembemys
• Theropoda indet.
• Torvosaurus sp.
• Tacuadactylus luciae
• Fish
• Arganodus tiguidiensis
• Asiatoceratodus tiguidiensis
• Mawsonia gigas
• Neoceratodus africanus
• Priohybodus arambourgi
• Halecostomi indet.
• Semionotiformes indet.
• Bivalves
• Diplodon sp.
• Tacuaremboia caorsii
• Gastropods
• Viviparidae indet.
• Ichnofossils
• Ornithopoda indet.
• Sauropoda indet.
• Theropoda indet.

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Uruguay

References

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