Arroyo Yaminhué (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as Yaminué

Where: Río Negro, Argentina (40.5° S, 66.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 51.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Senonian (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Upper Senonian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Wichmann in 1923; reposited in the MACN

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1931. Verschiedene mesozoische Wirbeltierreste aus Südamerika [Different Mesozoic vertebrate remains from South America]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Abteilung A 66:181-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64087: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Faveoloolithidae
Faveoloolithidae indet. Zhao and Ding 1976 sauropod
MPA 85 to 93 collections
 Saurischia - Saltasauridae
"? Loricosaurus scutatus" = Neuquensaurus australis
"? Loricosaurus scutatus" = Neuquensaurus australis Lydekker 1893 saltasaurine
vertebra; "probably" this taxon