Puesto Narambuena [Plottier Fm.] (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Rincón de los Sauces

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (37.4° S, 69.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° S, 49.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Plottier Formation (Neuquén Group), Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 83.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; brown shale and sandstone

• "correspondientes a depósitos de planicie de inundación asociados a sistemas fluviales de baja energía"
• Specimen found near the top of a 2 m section of brown shales. "El nivel fosilífero corresponde a facies de fangolitas de aspecto macizo a tenuemente laminadas"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: A. B. Arcucci, L. S. Filippi, and J. O. Calvo. 2011. Un nuevo Mesoeucrocodylia Cretácio del norte de la Cuenca Neuquina, Argentina [A new Cretaceous Mesoeucrocodylia from the north of the Neuquen Basin, Argentina]. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 14(1):51-60 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114109: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.08.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Aeolosaurini indet.
Aeolosaurini indet. Franco-Rosas et al. 2004 sauropod
MAU-Pv-N-414 (four anterior caudal vertebrae)
 Loricata -
Mesoeucrocodylia indet.
Mesoeucrocodylia indet. Whetstone and Whybrow 1983 crocodilian
MAU-PV-N-280 - partial skeleton