Dinosaur record in Chile

Abstract

To date the dinosaur record in Chile is mostly composed by trackways of theropods, sauropods and ornithopods, and bone remains belonging to sauropods of the family Titanosauridae. Most of these tracks together with all the sauropod fossils come from cretaceous strata. A tarsometarsus of a bird, order Gaviiformes, Neogaeornis wetzeli, and a pair of teeth reported here, represent the skeletal material for theropods, both ocurrences from Upper Cretaceous. An isolated caudal vertebra of ornithopod from the Lower Cretaceous is the only bone evidence for ornithischians. The use of these vertebrates as biostratigraphic indicators for continental levels is commented.