Also known as Estratos de Quebrada Municipalidad, Marine reptile site

Where: Santiago, Chile (33.4° S, 71.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° S, 59.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Estratos de Quebrada Municipalidad Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• The EQM is considered to be Maastrichtian in age based on bivalves such as C. acuticostatum and P. hanetiana (Pérez-D’Angelo and Reyes, 1978). Recently this determination has been constrained by a radiometric date on 90Sr/89Sr obtained from bivalve shells (Suárez and Marquardt, 2003) that indicated an age of 69 +- 01 Ma (early Maastrichtian).

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained sandstone and conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2006

Primary reference: R. A. Otero, J. F. Parham, S. Soto-Acuña, P. Jimenez-Huidobro, and D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2012. Marine reptiles from Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) deposits in Algarrobo, central Chile. Cretaceous Research 35:124-132 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/F. Aspromonte]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132352: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.08.2012, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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