Las Campanas creek (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Villa El Chocón, Las Campanas Canyon

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (39.4° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.1° S, 46.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Huincul Formation (Neuquén Group), Late/Upper Cenomanian to Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.8 Ma)

• lower levels of formation, 13 m above conformable contact with Candeleros Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; paleosol/pedogenic, quartzose, conglomeratic sandstone

• Fluvial deposits with high sinuosity and conglomeratic levels. The remains were found in sheet flood deposits associated with paleosols
• quartzitic sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

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

Primary reference: A. Haluza, J. I. Canale, A. Otero, L. M. Peréz, and C. A. Scanferla. 2012. Changes in vertebral laminae across the cervicodorsal transition of a well-preserved rebbachisaurid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Cenomanian of Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(1):219-224 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123202: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 13.01.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae
Rebbachisauridae indet. sauropod
MMCH-Pv-49 (partially articulated skeleton consisting of 7 cervicals, 11 dorsals, fragmentary thoracic ribs, nearly complete right scapula and coracoid, and complete right humerus)
Sidersaura marae2 Lerzo et al. 2024 sauropod
MMCh PV 236
 Theropoda - Carcharodontosauridae
Meraxes gigas n. gen. n. sp.1
Meraxes gigas n. gen. n. sp.1 Canale et al. 2022 allosauroid
MMCh-PV 65 ("Campanas carcharodontosaurid")