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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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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)
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Meraxes gigas n. gen. n. sp.1
Meraxes gigas n. gen. n. sp.1 Canale et al. 2022 allosauroid MMCh-PV 65 ("Campanas carcharodontosaurid")
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