Estancia El Brete (Paleocene) (Paleocene of Argentina)

Also known as Bretesuchus bonapartei type locality

Where: Salta, Argentina (26.1° S, 65.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.8° S, 54.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maiz Gordo Formation (Santa Bárbara Group), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; fine-grained, brown, red sandstone and siltstone

• flood plain environment
• Levels of reddish-brown fine sandstones with intercalations of greenish to light gray sandstones and siltstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Instituto Miguel Lillo (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán) in 1982

Primary reference: Z. Gasparini, M. Fernandez, and J. Powell. 1993. New Tertiary sebecosuchians (Crocodylomorpha) from South America: phylogenetic implications. Historical Biology 7(1):1-20 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123363: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 19.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Loricata - Sebecidae
Bretesuchus bonapartei n. gen. n. sp.
Bretesuchus bonapartei n. gen. n. sp. Gasparini et al. 1993 crocodilian
PVL 4735 - type (skull and jaw partially complete)