Also known as El Bagual sauropod site, Cañadón Bagual

Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.5° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° S, 28.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Middle Toarcian (182.0 - 175.6 Ma)

• Lower levels of the Cañadón Asfalto Formation dated at 179.17 ± 0.12 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; gray mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Pol, J. L. Carballido and team in 2006-2010

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: D. Pol, O. W. M. Rauhut, and J. L. Carballido. 2009. Skull anatomy of a new basal eusauropod from the Cañadón Asfalto Formation (Middle Jurassic) of central Patagonia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3, suppl):165A [O. Rauhut/O. Rauhut]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 109131: authorized by Oliver Rauhut, entered by Oliver Rauhut on 11.05.2011, edited by Evangelos Vlachos, Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion

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