El Indio, Cerro Chivo (sauropod site) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.2° S, 68.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° S, 36.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Puesto La Paloma Member (Cerro Barcino Formation), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• basal unit of La Paloma Member

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•Based on Krause et al. 2020 and Carballido et al. 2017. The contact zones between Puesto La Paloma and Cerros Castaño is approximately Aptian-Early Albian at ~118.5-110.8 Ma.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; conglomerate

• A playa lake environment with eolian deposits that was subjected to influxes of sediment from ephemeral fluvial systems and debris flows from higher elevations
• "channel of reworked, conglomerate tuff"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. W. M. Rauhut, G. Cladera, P. Vickers-Rich and T. H. Rich. 2003. Dinosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous of the Chubut Group, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 24:487-497 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59289: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 24.03.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauriformes indet.
Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
two presacral vertebral centra, a tibia and an indeterminate limb bone