Embalse Cerros Colorados (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Lago Los Barreales, Lomo de La Lata

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (38.3° S, 68.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.2° S, 53.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Group), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Rio Colorado Subgroup, ? Anacleto Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. de Broin and M. de la Fuente. 1993. Les tortues fossiles d'Argentine: synthese [The fossil turtles of Argentina: synthesis]. Annales de Paléontologie (Invertebrés-Vertebrés) 79(3):169-232 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 131419: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 24.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
"Podocnemidae indet." = Podocnemididae
"Podocnemidae indet." = Podocnemididae Cope 1868 sideneck turtle
Pelomedusoides, Podocnemididae probable, nouveau et indéterminé. Part of the carpace and plastron