Arroyo Potrero del Nogalito/El Churqui (PVL) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Salta, Argentina (24.6° S, 65.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 47.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Los Blanquitos Formation (Salta Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• upper levels of formation; Pirgua Subgroup; level is above that at El Morterito locality

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, green sandstone

• "light greenish-grey fluvial sandstones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. Powell in 1977

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. E. Powell. 2003. Revision of South American titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 111:1-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 51567: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Aves
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Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid