The Baños del Flaco Formation is a Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (Tithonian to Berriasian geologic formation in central Chile. The formation comprises limestones and sandstones deposited in a shallow marine to fluvial environment.Leonardi, 1994, p.65Baños del Flaco Formation at Fossilworks.org Fossil ornithopod tracks have been reported from the formation.Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.517-607
Fossil content Among others, the following fossils have been found in the formation:Termas del Flaco at Fossilworks.org Ichnofossils Camptosaurichnus fasolae Iguanodonichnus frenkii Ornithopoda indet. Theropoda indet.
Ammonites, echinoderms and bivalves
See also List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations List of stratigraphic units with ornithischian tracks Ornithopod tracks Arcabuco Formation, contemporaneous ichnofossil-bearing formation in Colombia Chacarilla Formation, contemporaneous ichnofossil-bearing formation in northern Chile Coihaique Group, contemporaneous fossiliferous formation in the Aysén Basin
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Further reading C. Salazar and W. Stinnesbeck. 2016. Tithonian–Berriasian ammonites from the Baños del Flaco Formation, central Chile. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14:149-182 A. P. Larrain and L. Biró-Bagóczky. 1985. New Pygurus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) from the Tithonian of central Chile: first record from the Jurassic of the southern hemisphere. Journal of Paleontology 59(6):1409-1413