Villa El Chocón, 10 km southwest (MUCP-MACN): Cenomanian, Argentina
collected 1988

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Pipimorpha indet. Ford and Cannatella 1993
Báez et al. 2007
MACN Pv N96 - immature individual, most likely Avitabatrachus (single articulated skeleton, lacking the most anterior part of the skull, the upper and lower jaws, the forelimbs, and the hind autopodia). A few disarticulated remains belong to other individuals.
Reptilia
Rebbachisaurus tessonei n. sp. Calvo and Salgado 1995
1 individual
recombined as Limaysaurus tessonei
MUCPv-205
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Neuquén
Coordinates: 39.3° South, 68.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.4° South, 45.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Cenomanian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Neuquén Formation:Candeleros
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Río Limay Subgroup, top of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:massive,brown,red siltstone
Lithology description: massive, reddish-brown siltstone
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1988
Metadata
Also known as:Rebbachisaurus tessonei type locality
Database number:51947
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-07-06 08:26:42 Last modified:2021-04-06 14:21:54
Access level:the public Released:2005-07-06 08:26:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

16726.ETE J. O. Calvo and L. Salgado. 1995. Rebbachisaurus tessonei sp. nov. a new Sauropoda from the Albian-Cenomanian of Argentina; new evidence on the origin of the Diplodocidae. GAIA 11:13-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

37878 A. M. Báez, P. Muzzopappa, and L. Nicoli. 2007. Anurans from the Candeleros Formation (? Cenomanian-Turonian) of west-central Argentina: new evidence for pipoid evolution. Cretaceous Research 28:1005-1016 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
13863ETE 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]
34689ETE R. D. Juárez Valieri, J. O. Calvo, and S. D. Rios Díaz. 2011. Sauropods crossing formations: biostratigraphical implications for Patagonian faunal assemblages. In J. O. Calvo, J. D. Porfiri, B. J. González Riga, D. Dos Santos (eds.), Dinosaurios y Paleontología desde América Latina. Anales del III Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología. Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Neuquén 153-160 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
75420 A. Paulina-Carabajal and J. O. Calvo. 2021. Re-description of the braincase of the rebbachisaurid sauropod Limaysaurus tessonei and novel endocranial information based on CT scans. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 93(Suppl. 2):e20200762:-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12292ETE L. Salgado, A. Garrido, S. E. Cocca and J. R. Cocca. 2004. Lower Cretaceous rebbachisaurid sauropods from Cerro Aguada del León (Lohan Cura Formation), Neuquén province, northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(4):903-912 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16717ETE J. A. Wilson and P. C. Sereno. 1998. Early evolution and higher-level phylogeny of sauropod dinosaurs. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 5. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2 (suppl.)):1-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]