Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (50.3° S, 72.2° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° S, 62.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: El Calafate Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

• The specimen belongs to an adult individual eight metres long and includes most bones of the skeleton

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• MPM, Museo ‘Padre Molina’, Rio Gallegos city, Santa Cruz province, Argentina

Primary reference: J. S. D’Angelo, J. A. G. Marsà, F. L. Agnolín and F. E. Novas. 2023. Biological implications of the bone microstructure of a new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauroidea) from the uppermost Cretaceous of Patagonia. Historical Biology [E. Vlachos/F. Aspromonte]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140330: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.03.2013, edited by Franco Aspromonte

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