Parador La Leona (Level 1) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as Estancia La Blanca

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (49.1° S, 71.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.0° S, 49.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mata Amarilla Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• MPM, Museo Regional Provincial Padre Manuel Jesús Molina, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province,Argentina

Primary reference: J. P. O'Gorman and A. N. Varela. 2010. The oldest lower Upper Cretaceous plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from Southern Patagonia, Argentina. Ameghiniana 47(4):447-459 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141577: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 29.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur
MPM-PV 1870-2 (one cervical vertebra), MPM-PV 1870-3 (one pectoral vertebra), MPM-PV 1870-1 (one propodium)