El Molino Formation
The El Molino Formation is a Maastrichtian geologic formation pertaining to the Puca Group of central Bolivia. The formation comprises fine-grained sandstones and sandy limestones with stromatolites deposited in a shallow marine to lacustrine environment. The formation has provided fossils of Dolichochampsa minima, and ichnofossils of Ankylosauria indet., Ornithopoda indet., Theropoda indet. and Titanosauridae indet. The tracksite of Cal Orcko is the best known example of the ichnofossil locations of the formation. The ichnofossil of Ligabueichnum bolivianum may be attributed to an ankylosaur. The fossil fish species Dasyatis molinoensis is named after the formation.Fossil content
Other fossils retrieved from the formation are:
- Coelodus toncoensis
- Dagetella sudamericana
- Dasyatis branisai, D. molinoensis, D. schaefferi
- Gasteroclupea branisai
- Ischyrhiza hartenbergeri
- Latinopollia suarezi
- Lepidotyle enigmatica
- Ligabueichnum bolivianum
- Noterpeton bolivianum
- Phaerodusichthys taverni
- Pucabatis hoffstetteri
- Pucapristis branisi
- Stephanodus minimus
- Lepidosiren cf. paradoxa
- Andinichthys sp.
- Ceratodus sp.
- Enchodus sp.
- Lepisosteus sp.
- Pucalithus sp.
- Rhineastes sp.
- Santosius sp.
- Anura indet.
- Bolividentrosaurus Viciousia.
- Crocodylia indet.
- Dryolestidae indet.
- Eutheria indet.
- cf. Cyprinodontiformes indet.
- Gymnophiona indet.
- Heterotidinae indet.
- ?Madtsoiidae indet.
- Podocnemidae indet.
- Pycnodontidae indet.
- Boliviaposeidon indet.
- Siluriformes indet.
- Tetragonopterinae indet.
