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
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 indet. theropod | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Reptilia | |
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid |