Also known as Cerro Guerra

Where: Río Negro, Argentina (39.5° S, 67.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° S, 53.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Allen Formation (Malargüe Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• Other fossils collected from the same horizon and locality include indeterminate fishes (isolated vertebrae and scales), fragmentary chelid turtle shells, and elasmosaurid plesiosaur remains (isolated vertebrae and the articular portion of a lower jaw), indicating a nearshore marine depositional environment.

•[The lack of a mention of fossil eggs suggests these remains are not from 'egg level 5' (collection:96070)]

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• MPCNPV, Vertebrate paleontology Collection, Museo Patagónico de Ciencias Naturales, General Roca, Río Negro, Argentina

Primary reference: F. E. Novas, M. Kundrat, F. L. Agnolin, M. D. Ezcurra, P. E. Ahlberg, M. P. Isasi, A. Arriagada and P. Chafrat. 2012. A new large pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(6):1447-1452 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135703: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 04.11.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano

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