East Slope, Sierra Pampa de Agnía (Jurassic to of Argentina)

Also known as Cañadón Puelman

Where: Chubut, Argentina (44.0° S, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° S, 26.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cerro Carnerero Formation, Pliensbachian to Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.0 Ma)

• fossiliferous beds rest on Liassic beds with Harpoceras subplanatum, and below the Middle-Upper Jurassic Porphyritic Series. Called the "Cerro Carnerero" beds, which "include the Bajocian in their base and may extend into the Callovian". Rauhut (2003) assigned to late Toarcian-early Aalenian interval and Rauhut (2008) assigned the Cerro Carnerero to Toarcian–Bajocian. The age has been recently refined by Pol et al. (2020) to Pliensbachian-early Toarcian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy tuff and gray, blue claystone

• The remains were discovered in a bed of sandy tuff and bluish gray clay, which form part of a continental sedimentary series mixed with porphyritic conglomerates with partly encrusted round pebbles, and bluish gray cineritic clays with sandy intercalations and clays in lesser amounts. (translated from Spanish by M. Carrano)

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected by A. Piatnitzky, T. Suero in 1936

Primary reference: A. Cabrera. 1947. Un saurópodo nuevo del Jurásico de Patagonia. Instituto del Museo de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Notas del Mueso de La Plata, Paleontología 12(95):1-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11923: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.09.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Amygdalodon patagonicus n. gen. n. sp.
Amygdalodon patagonicus n. gen. n. sp. Cabrera 1947 sauropod
MLP 46-VIII-21-1/2, posterior dorsal vertebra (lectotype)
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Estheria sp.
Estheria sp. Ruppell 1837 clam shrimp