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
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Pipimorpha indet.
Ford and Cannatella 1993
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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
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Rebbachisaurus tessonei n. sp.
Calvo and Salgado 1995
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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] | |
13863 | ETE | 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] |
34689 | ETE | 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] | |
12292 | ETE | 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] |
16717 | ETE | 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] |