Where: Potosí, Bolivia (19.5° S, 65.8° W: paleocoordinates 22.0° S, 51.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: El Molino Formation (Puca Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by YPFB

• found by oil geologists of the Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos

Primary reference: E. Buffetaut. 1987. Occurrence of the crocodilian Dolichochampsa minima (Eusuchia, Dolichochampsidae) in the El Molino Formation of Bolivia. Bulletin de la Société belge de Géologie 96(2):195-199 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 114971: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 26.08.2011

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