Also known as Pitekunsaurus type, Rincón de los Sauces
Where: Neuquén, Argentina (37.5° S, 68.9° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° S, 53.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Group), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; paleosol/pedogenic mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by L. Macaya in 2004
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: L. S. Filippi and A. C. Garrido. 2008. Pitekunsaurus macayai gen. et sp. nov., nuevo titanosaurio (Saurischia, Sauropoda) del Cretácico Superior de la Cuenca Neuquina, Argentina [Pitekunsaurus macayai gen. et sp. nov., new titanosaur (Saurischia, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Neuquén Basin, Argentina]. Ameghiniana 45(3):575-590 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 86439: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.02.2009, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Prochelidella palomoi n. sp.
Prochelidella palomoi n. sp. Maniel et al. 2022 sideneck turtle Holotype— MAU-Pv-AG-452. A partially preserved skull; a left first costal bone; a left odd costal bone; a well-preserved plastron including both epiplastra, an entoplastron, a right hyoplastron, both hypoplastron, and left xiphiplastron; and a left ilium. Referred material— MAU-Pv-AG-557/1: odd costal bone, MAU-Pv-AG-557/2: right hypoplastron, MAU-Pv- AG-557/3: right hyoplastron.
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Pitekunsaurus macayai n. gen. n. sp.
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