Loma del Lindero: Late/Upper Coniacian - Early/Lower Santonian, Argentina
collected by J. O. Calvo, M. Palomo, S. Palomo 1997-2001

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885
5 individuals
4 adults, 1 juvenile; MRS-Pv 50,-54-60, 65-68, 70-72, 87-91, 121-23, 125, 127-28, 131-32, 134-35, 137, 139, 141-47, 152, 154, 157, 161-62, 164-66, 168, 170-71, 173-74, 181-82, 187, 189-90, 193, 198-200, 202-04, 209, 212, 214, 224, 229-32, 235-37, 242-43, 245-47, 251-52, 257-59, 266, 271, 273-74, 279, 337, 352-53, 355-58, 369, 371, 375, 377-379, 387, 389, 391-92, 396-97, 399, 404, 408, 412, 419-22, 428-31
    = Eutitanosauria indet. Sanz et al. 1999
Calvo and González Riga 2005
    = Muyelensaurus pecheni n. gen., n. sp. Calvo et al. 2007
Calvo et al. 2007
Reptilia - Abelisauridae
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
1 specimen
    = Brachyrostra indet. Canale et al. 2008
Méndez et al. 2022
MAU-Pv-LL-75, Vertebrae, teeth, sacrum?
Reptilia - Testudines
Linderochelys rinconensis n. gen., n. sp. de la Fuente et al. 2007
Calvo and González Riga 2005 1 specimen
MAU-PV-LL-69
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Neuquén
Coordinates: 37.4° South, 69.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.2° South, 49.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Coniacian - Early/Lower Santonian
Age range of interval:89.30000 - 83.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Neuquén Formation:Plottier
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Río Neuquén Subgroup, originally assigned to Portezuelo Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Secondary lithology:fine sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:crevasse splay
Geology comments: "meandering rivers" with fossils in overbank deposits
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J. O. Calvo, M. Palomo, S. Palomo Collection dates:1997-2001
Metadata
Also known as:Rincón de los Sauces, Lago Mari Menuco
Database number:55445
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-10-25 06:33:59 Last modified:2023-08-11 14:14:56
Access level:the public Released:2005-10-25 06:33:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

85640. J. O. Calvo and B. J. González Riga. 1999. Hallazgos de Theropoda y Titanosauridae y su paleoambiente en una nueva localidad de Rincón de Los Sauces [Discoveries of Theropoda and Titanosauridae and their paleoenvironment in a new locality from Rincon de Los Sauces]. XIV Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados, Neuquén y Plaza Huincul, 18 al 20 de mayo de 1998, Resúmenes. Ameghiniana 36(1):97 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

14938ETE J. O. Calvo and B. J. González Riga. 2005. Hallazgo de un nuevo titanosaurio (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) en Rincón de los Sauces, Patagonia, Argentina [Discovery of a new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) in Rincón de los Sauces, Patagonia, Argentina]. In A. W. A. Kellner, D. D. R. Henriques, and T. Rodrigues (eds.), II Congresso Latino-Americano de Paleontologia de Vertebrados, Boletim de Resumos. Museum Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro 61 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
27159ETE J. O. Calvo, B. J. González Riga, and J. D. Porfiri. 2007. A new titanosaur sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 65(4):485-504 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25675 M. S. de la Fuente, J. O. Calvo, and B. J. González Riga. 2007. A new Cretaceous chelid turtle from the northern Neuquén Basin, Argentina. Ameghiniana 44(2):485-492 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69251 L. S. Filippi. 2015. Los dinosaurios Sauropoda del Cretácico Superior del norte de la Cuenca Neuquina, Patagonia Argentina [The sauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of the north of the Neuquén Basin, Argentine Patagonia]. Boletín del Instituto de Fisiografía y Geología 85:19-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
24659ETE B. J. González Riga and R. A. Astini. 2007. Preservation of large titanosaur sauropods in overbank fluvial facies: a case study in the Cretaceous of Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 23:290-303 [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]
79474 A. H. Méndez, F. A. Gianechini, A. Paulina-Carabajal, L. S. Filippi, R. D. Juárez-Valieri, I. A. Cerda, and A. C. Garrido. 2022. New furileusaurian remains from La Invernada (northern Patagonia, Argentina): a site of unusual abelisaurids abundance. Cretaceous Research 129:104989:1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]