Villa El Chocón, 5 km south (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (39.2° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 46.3° S, 44.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Candeleros Formation (Neuquén Group), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Río Limay Subgroup

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Delgado in 1987

Primary reference: J. O. Calvo. 1999. Dinosaurs and other vertebrates of the Lake Ezequiel Ramos Mexía area, Neuquén-Patagonia, Argentina. Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:13-45 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51945: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.07.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Carcharodontosauridae
Giganotosaurus sp. Coria and Salgado 1995 allosauroid
MUCPv-52