Chili
Collections(s): 42 Site(s)
Hornitos, Cerro Algarrobito : Atacama - ? 9498 55605 85633 Chañarcillo quadrangle, south-central third of the Atacama region, Chile. 2.5 km SE of Cerro Algarrobito. Altitude estimated from map.- Pichasca : Coquimbo - ? 13712 41449 53055 55099 55571 55605 59606 85633 Pichasca area, 40 km NE of Ovalle; N flank of the Río Hurtado, NW of the pueblo of Pichasca. States as 30° 20' S, 70° 54' W but estimate from map is more specific. Ref 59606: "an area of approximately 25 km^2 on the north flank of the Hurtado River, northwest of the town of Pichasca and 10 km east in a straight line from the town of Samo Alto."
- Southeast of Cerro Algarrobito : Atacama - ? 13712 41449 55571 55605 SE corner of Cuadrángulo Chañarcillo, S-central area of region Atacama III, in unnamed main creek about 2.5 km SE of the Cerro Algarrobito. Near Chañarcillo.
- Río San Salvador (upper bed) : Antofagasta - Tocopilla 14210 76530 93555 = Region II, along San Salvador river, W of city of Calama; exposed along approx. 100 m
- Río San Salvador (lower bed) : Antofagasta - Tocopilla 14210 76530 93555 = Region II, along San Salvador river, W of city of Calama; exposed along approx. 100 m; UTM 490859/7516348
- Termas del Flaco : O'Higgins - Colchagua 14677 15457 15469 51919 53055 55099 55571 55605 59104 59610 61518 62875 63183 70300 76530 82180 Approx. 100 km SE of San Fernando, VI Region. Tracks are 100 m NE of Termes del Flaco. N side of Tinguiririca River. 138 km from Santiago by road.
- Dinosauria identifié comme Iguanodonichnus frenkii n. gen. n. sp.
- Ornithopoda identifié comme Camptosaurichnus fasolae n. gen. n. sp.
- Ornithopoda
- Theropoda
- Theropoda
- Conchi Viejo, Atacama : Antofagasta - ? 17234 35569 55571 150 km N of Calama, 50 km E from El Abra copper mine, near village of Conchi Viejo, Atacama Desert. Specimens collected in an area of 2 m2. W side of Domeyko range.
- Aysén : Aisén - General Carrera 28072 41617 55192 55571 56018 Near Aysén, Aysén Basin, cropping out in the mountains flanked by the Maitenes and Horquetas rivers, south of Lago General Carreras (General Carrera Lake)
- Chacarilla tracksite (south wall) : Tarapaca - ? 14677 28973 29307 53055 55099 55571 55605 59104 61518 62875 76530 78715 82494 82611 93555 Tarapacá, Chacarilla, Quebrada de Chacarilla, at least five outcrops in a valley - three in the south wall are included here, 4-5 km upstream from the Chacarilla Oasis, 500 m above valley floor
- Quebrada del Carbón tracksite : Tarapaca - ? 28973 29307 55605 59104 76530 82611 Tarapacá, Chacarilla, Quebrada de Chacarilla, at least five outcrops in a valley - this one in the Quebrada del Carbón is 50-100 m above the first dry waterfall
- Quebrada Chacarilla tracksite (south side) : Tarapaca - ? 14677 28973 29307 55605 59104 76530 82611 93555 Tarapacá, Chacarilla, Quebrada de Chacarilla, at least five outcrops in a valley - this one in the Quebrada Chacarilla is in the S side of the valley, 1 km E of the E border of the Chacarilla quadrangle
- Cerro la Isla : Atacama - ? 31118 43560 55605 92541 southwestern slopes of Cerro La Isla, approximately 80 km east of Copiapó in the Andes of the
Atacama Region, Northern Chile; 27°15'58.65"S 69°22'57.68"W
- Quebrada Blanca de Poquis : Antofagasta - ? 41449 55571 55605 presumably in or near the Quebrada Blanca de Poquis
- Quebrada Pajonales, Sierra de Almeyda : Antofagasta - ? 41449 55571 55605 85633 fossils from an area of 5 km within the Sierra de Almeyda near Quebrada Pajonales
- Quebrada Codocedo : Atacama - ? 43560 55571 55605 Region east of Copiapo
- Quebrada Lequena : Antofagasta - ? 53055 55605 Quebrada Lequena locality, N of the copper-bearing site of Chuquicamata, 37 km NW of Concha Viejo
- Quebrada Arca tracksite : Antofagasta - Arequipa 55571 76538 in Quebrada Arca, close to its meeting with the tributary Quebrada Sichal
- Quebrada de Tarapaca : Tarapaca - ? 55605 Quebrada de Tarapaca
- Cerritos Bayos (Banco de Vertebrata) : Antofagasta - El Loa 55571 55605 55912 Cerritos Bayos, near Loma Larga Sur
- Quebrada de Guatacondo tracksite : Tarapaca - ? 55605 76530 82611 93555 Quebrada de Guatacondo (= Huatacondo)
- Pirquitas de Cerro Negro : Valparaiso - ? 55571 55605 Pirquitas de Cerro Negro mine
- south of Termas del Flaco : O'Higgins - ? 55605 just S of Termas del Flaco
- SP-1, Saurópodo sector : Última Esperanza - ? 72449 Eastern flank of the Río de Las Chinas Valley, Última Esperanza Province, Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region, Chilean Patagonia
- SP-17, Saurópodo sector : Última Esperanza - ? 72449 78857 Eastern flank of the Río de Las Chinas Valley, located in the Estancia Cerro Guido, NW of Torres del Paine National Park, Última Esperanza Province, Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region, Chilean Patagonia
50° 42’ 42.72’’ S /72° 32’ 29, 08’’ W
- Quebrada La Higuera : Atacama - ? 75813 85633 La Higuera ravine, Quebrada La Higuera approx. 75 km south Copiapó city, Atacama Region, northern Chile
- Lo Valdés tracksite : Metropolitana - ? 76530 at the foot of Cerro Arenas, 6 km NW of towns of Baños Morales and Lo Valdés
- Carta geologica 97, Locality 12 : Coquimbo - ? 77773
- Carta geologica 97, Locality 13 : Coquimbo - ? 77773
- Localidad 13 : Copiapó - Copiapó 78437
- Localidad 35, SNGM-1 : Copiapó - Tierra Amarilla 78437
- Loc. 5 : Región de Tarapacá - ? 82611
- Loc 6 : Región de Tarapacá - ? 82611
- P1, El Puesto : Magallanes y Antártica Chilena - Última Esperanza 83638 locality P1, El Puesto sector, Río de Las Chinas Valley, northwest of the Torres del Paine National Park, Última Esperanza Province
- SC1, Saurópodo Camp : Magallanes y Antártica Chilena - Última Esperanza 83638 SC1, Saurópodo Camp, northwest of the Torres del Paine National Park, Última Esperanza Province
- SC2 (mudstone/sandstone facies), Saurópodo Camp : Magallanes y Antártica Chilena - Última Esperanza 83638 SC2, Saurópodo Camp, northwest of the Torres del Paine National Park, Última Esperanza Province
- SC3, Saurópodo Camp : Magallanes y Antártica Chilena - Última Esperanza 83638 SC3, Saurópodo Camp, northwest of the Torres del Paine National Park, Última Esperanza Province
- Loma Koken, El Puesto : Última Esperanza - ? 85459 85587 Loma Koken (50°42′42″S and 72°32′29″W), El Puesto area, Río de las Chinas Valley, Estancia Cerro Guido, Magallanes Region, Chilean Patagonia; 350 km to the north of the city of Punta Arenas, Ultima Esperanza Province. Exposure extends for 5 km to the NE with several exposures in the valley
- Río Hurtado valley, Pichasca : Coquimbo - ? 85786 Pichasca Natural Monument, near San Pedro, Río Hurtado County, Coquimbo region, N Chile
- Quebrada Chacarilla tracksite (Majala Fm.) : Tarapaca - ? 93555 Tarapacá, Chacarilla, Quebrada de Chacarilla
- Quebrada Huatacondo tracksite (Maj1) : Tarapaca - ? 93555 1.5 km W of the hamlet of Huatacondo in the Tarapacá Region in northern Chile (20°55′43.35″S, 69°3′44.81″W)
- Quebrada Huatacondo tracksite (Maj3) : Tarapaca - ? 93555 1.5 km W of the hamlet of Huatacondo in the Tarapacá Region in northern Chile (20°55′43.35″S, 69°3′44.81″W)
- Quebrada Huatacondo tracksite (Maj5) : Tarapaca - ? 93555 1.5 km W of the hamlet of Huatacondo in the Tarapacá Region in northern Chile (20°55′43.35″S, 69°3′44.81″W)
Publication(s)
- G. Chong Diaz. 1985. Hallazgo de restos oseos de dinosaurios en la Formación Hornitos – Tercera Region de Atacama – Chile. IV Congreso Geologico Chileno
- P. Salinas, L. G. Marshall, and P. Sepúlveda. 1991. Vertebrados continentales del Paleozoico y Mesozoico de Chile [Continental vertebrates of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic of Chile]. Actas del VI Congreso Geológicao Chileno, Viña del Mar
- J. Iriarte, K. Moreno, and D. Rubilar, A. Vargas. 1999. A titanosaurid from the Quebrada La Higuera Formation (Upper Cretaceous), III Región, Chile. Ameghiniana 36(1):102
- R. M. Casamiquela, J. Corvalán, and F. Franquesa. 1969. Hallazgos de dinosaurios en el Cretácico Superior de Chile. Su importancia cronológica-estratigráfica [Discoveries of dinosaurs in the Upper Cretaceous of Chile. Their chronologic-stratigraphic importance]. Boletin del Instituto de Investigaciones Geológicas 25:1-31
- J. E. Powell. 2003. Revision of South American titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 111:1-173
- P. Salinas, P. Sepúlveda, and L. G. Marshall. 1991. Hallazgo de restos oseos de dinosaurios (saurópodos) en la Formación Pajonales (Cretácico Superior), Sierra de Almeyda, Región de Antofagasta, Chile: implicancia cronológica [Discovery of skeletal remains of dinosaurs (sauropods) in the Pajonales Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Sierra de Almeyda, Antofagasta Region, Chile: chronological implications]. 6e Congreso Geológico Chileño, Viña del Mar. Resumenes Expandidos. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Mineria, Chile
- G. Chong Diaz and Z. B. d. Gasparini. 1976. Los vertebrados mesozoicos de Chile y su aporte geo-paleontologico [The Mesozoic vertebrates of Chile and their geo-paleontological importance]. Actas del Sexto Congreso Geologico Argentino, Bahia Blanca, 21-27 September 1975
- J. F. Bonaparte. 1981. Inventario de los vertebrados Jurásicos de América del Sur [Inventory of the Jurassic vertebrates of South America]. Cuencas Sedimentarias del Jurásico y Cretácico de América del Sur 2:661-684
- D. Rubilar-Rogers, R. A. Otero, and R. E. Yury-Yáñez, A. O. Vargas, C. S. Gutstein. 2012. An overview of the dinosaur fossil record from Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 37:242-255
- K. Moreno, N. Blanco, and A. Tomlinson. 2004. Nuevas huellas de dinosaurios del Jurásico Superior en el norte de Chile [New dinosaur footprints from the Upper Jurassic of northern Chile]. Ameghiniana 41(4):535-543
- K. Moreno. 2008. Valoración y estado de conservación de huellas de vertebrados Mesozoicos en Chile [Evaluation and conservation of Mesozoic vertebrate footprints in Chile]. I Simposio—Paleontología en Chile. Libro de Actas
- M. Yurac, M. Belvedere, and C. Salazar, J. Méndez, C. Meyer. 2025. Upper Jurassic dinosaur tracks from the Majala Formation in the Huatacondo area (Tarapacá Basin, Chile): reappraisal of known localities and new tracksite discoveries. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144(1):72:1-25
- A. Fasola R. 1966. Hallazgo de huellas de dinosaurios en el Alto Tinguiririca [Discovery of dinosaur bones in Alto Tinguiririca]. Museum Nacional de Historia Natural, Noticiario Mensual 10(1119):8
- G. Leonardi. 1994. Annotated Atlas of South America Tetrapod Footprints (Devonian to Holocene) with an Appendix on Mexico and Central America. . República Federativa do Brasil, Ministério de Minas e Energia, Secretaria de Minas e Metalurgia, Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais, Brasília
- K. Moreno and M. J. Benton. 2005. Occurence of sauropod dinosaur tracks in the Upper Jurassic of Chile (redescription of Iguanodonichnus frenki). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 20:253-257
- R. M. Casamiquela and A. R. Fasola. 1968. Sobre pisadas de dinosaurios del Cretácico Inferior de Colchagua (Chile) [On dinosaur trackways from the Lower Cretaceous of Colchagua (Chile)]. Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Geología 30:5-24
- D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2006. Icnitas de terópodos en la Formación Baños del Flaco (Jurásico Superior), Chile central [Theropod footprints in the Baños del Flaco Formation (Upper Jurassic), central Chile]. XI Congreso Geológico Chileno, 7–11 August 2006, Antofagasta. Actas 2:117-120
- G. Leonardi. 1989. Inventory and statistics of the South American dinosaurian ichnofauna and its paleobiological interpretation. Dinosaur Tracks and Traces
- J. F. Bonaparte. 1978. El Mesozoico de America de Sur y sus Tetrapodos [The Mesozoic of South America and its tetrapods]. Opera Lilloana 26:1-596
- D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87
- G. Leonardi. 1981. As localidades com rastros fósseis de tetrápodes na América Latina [Localities with fossil tetrapod tracks in Latin America]. Anais II Congresso Latino-Americano de Paleontologia 2:929-940
- W. A. S. Sarjeant, J. B. Delair, and M. G. Lockley. 1998. The footprints of Iguanodon: a history and taxonomic study. Ichnos 6(3):183-202
- J. O. Farlow. 1992. Sauropod tracks and trackmakers: integrating the ichnological and skeletal records. Zubía 10:89-138
- G. Chong Diaz, M. Vargas, and D. Rubilar, M. Suarez, R. P. Cáceres, A. W. A. Kellner. 2000. Cretaceous dinosaur locality at the Atacama Desert, northern Chile. Actas XVI Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrado, San Luis, Argentina
- A. W. A. Kellner, D. Rubilar-Rogers, and A. O. Vargas, M. Suarez. 2011. A new titanosaur sauropod from the Atacama Desert, Chile. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83(1):211-219
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- F. E. Novas, L. Salgado, and M. Suárez, F. L. Agnolín, M. D. Ezcurra, N. R. Chimento, R. de la Cruz, M. P. Isasi, A. O. Vargas, D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2015. An enigmatic plant-eating theropod from the Late Jurassic period of Chile. Nature 522(7556):331-334
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- C. M. Bell and M. Suarez. 1989. Vertebrate fossils and trace fossils in Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous red beds in the Atacama region, Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 2(4):351-357
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- S. Soto-Acuña, A. O. Vargas, and J. Kaluza, M. A. Leppe, J. F. Botelho, J. Palma-Liberona, C. Simon-Gutstein, R. A. Fernández, H. Ortiz, V. Milla, B. Aravena, L. M. E. Manríquez, J. Alarcón-Muñoz, J. Pino, C. Trevisan, H. Mansilla, L. Hinojosa, V. Muñoz-Walther, D. Rubilar-Rogers . 2021. Bizarre tail weaponry in a transitional ankylosaur from subantarctic Chile. Nature 600:259-263
- D. Rubilar-Rogers, A. O. Vargas, and B. González Riga, S. Soto-Acuña, J. Alarcón-Muñoz, J. Iriarte-Díaz, C. Arévalo, C. S. Gutstein. 2021. Arackar licanantay gen. et sp. nov. a new lithostrotian (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Atacama Region, northern Chile. Cretaceous Research
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- S. N. Davis, S. Soto-Acuña, and R. A. Fernández, J. Amudeo-Plaza, M. A. Leppe, D. Rubilar-Rogers, A. O. Vargas, J. A. Clarke. 2023. New records of Theropoda from a Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) locality in the Magallanes-Austral Basin, Patagonia, and insights into end Cretaceous theropod diversity. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 122:104163
- T. Jujihara, S. Soto-Acuña, and A. Vargas, W. Stinnesbeck, M. Vogt, D. Rubilar-Rogers, M. Leppe. 2014. The southernmost dinosaurs of South America. The 23rd Latin American Colloquium on Earth Sciences, Abstracts and Programme. GAEA Heidelbergensis 14:88
- J. Alarcón-Muñoz, A. O. Vargas, and H. P. Püschel, S. Soto-Acuña, L. Manríquez, M. Leppe, J. Kaluza, V. Milla, C. S. Gutstein, J. Palma-Liberona, W. Stinnesbeck, E. Frey, J. P. Pino, D. Bajor, E. Núñez, H. Ortiz, D. Rubilar-Rogers, P. Cruzado-Caballero. 2023. Relict duck-billed dinosaurs survived into the last age of the dinosaurs in subantarctic Chile. Science Advances 9:eadg2456:1-17
- J. Amudeo-Plaza, S. Soto-Acuña, and R. Ugalde, P. Martínez, D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2023. Reassessment of theropod material from Pichasca, northern Chile: presence of Abelisauridae (Theropoda: Ceratosauria) from the Quebrada La Totora Beds (Albian–Turonian). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 129
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