Estancia Laguna Palacios (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (44.8° S, 69.2° W: paleocoordinates 51.5° S, 46.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Bajo Barreal Formation), Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.8 Ma)

• Lower part of Upper Member of Bajo Barreal Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone and brown, gray mudstone

• claystones and gray-brown mudstones

Size class: macrofossils

• UNPSJB-PV 958, a partial skeleton consisting of two incomplete caudal vertebrae, the

•right manual ungual I and the left manual ungual III, the fragmentary right femur and left tibia, the largely complete right fibula, the distal end of the left metatarsal I, the distal two-thirds of the left metatarsal II, the incomplete right pedal phalanx II-1, the left pedal phalanx II-2, the ?left pedal phalanx ?III-2, two other fragmentary pedal phalanges, and many indeterminate fragments.

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

• UNPSJB-PV, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Comodoro Rivadavia,

•Argentina

Primary reference: L. M. Ibiricu, G. A. Casal, M. C. Lamanna, R. D. Martínez, J. D. Harris and K. J. Lacovara. 2012. The southernmost records of Rebbachisauridae (Sauropoda: Diplodocoidea), from early Late Cretaceous deposits in central Patagonia. Cretaceous Research 34:220-232 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 123284: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 17.01.2012, edited by Franco Aspromonte

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Megaraptoridae
Megaraptoridae indet.2 Novas et al. 2013 coelurosaur
UNPSJB-PV 958, partial skeleton
 Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae
Limaysaurinae indet.1 Whitlock 2011 sauropod
UNPSJB-PV 1004 - an associated but fragmentary caudal series consisting of an anterior vertebra (UNPSJB-PV 1004/1) and neural arch (UNPSJB-PV 1004/2), a middle vertebra (UNPSJB-PV 1004/3) and neural arch (UNPSJB-PV 1004/4), and two anterior to middle haemal arches (UNPSJB-PV 1004/5 and UNPSJB-PV 1004/6)