Estancia Laguna Palacios "2005 Quarry" (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (44.9° S, 69.4° W: paleocoordinates 51.6° S, 46.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Bajo Barreal Formation), Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.8 Ma)

• Upper part of the Lower Member of the Bajo Barreal Formation (Upper Cretaceous; Fig. 2), Chubut Group. The age of the Lower Member of the Bajo Barreal Formation is widely regarded as Cenomanian–Turonian (e.g., Archangelsky et al., 1994; Bridge et al., 2000; Lamanna et al., 2002; Ibiricu et al., 2012).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lenticular, graded, coarse-grained, green sandstone

• UNPSJBPV 1007 was recovered from the base of a 1.25-m-thick, fining upward fluvial deposit of lenticular geometry and erosive base. The specimen comes from a coarse green sandstone with numerous mudstone clasts in the matrix.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2005

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• UNPSJB-PV, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco Laboratorio de Paleovertebrados, Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina

•Other vertebrate fossils recovered from the ‘2005 Quarry’ include the partial skeletons of a turtle (M.C.L., pers. observ.) and an abelisaurid theropod dinosaur (Lamanna et al., 2011, 2012), as well as several isolated theropod teeth.

Primary reference: L. M. Ibiricu, G. A. Casal, R. D. Martinez, M. C. Lamanna, M. Luna and L. Salgado. 2013. Katepensaurus goicoecheai, gen. et sp. nov., a Late Cretaceous rebbachisaurid (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from central Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(6):1351-1366 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152253: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 13.11.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Rebbachisauridae
Katepensaurus goicoecheai n. gen. n. sp. Ibiricu et al. 2013 sauropod
UNPSJB-PV 1007, associated partial skeleton: 3 anterior to middle cervical vertebrae (UNPSJB-PV 1007/1–3), 3 middle to posterior dorsal vertebrae (UNPSJB-PV 1007/4–6), & 2 caudal vertebrae (UNPSJB-PV 1007/7 & 1007/8). Newly identified holotypic material includes: fragment of R frontal (UNPSJB-PV 1007/29), indeterminate neural arch fragment & partial cervical ribs (UNPSJB-PV 1007/35–36), incomplete anterior dorsal vertebra (UNPSJB-PV 1007/13), incomplete anterior to middle dorsal vertebra (UNPSJB-PV 1007/12), incomplete anterior to middle dorsal neural arch (UNPSJB-PV 1007/31), 3 incomplete anterior caudal vertebrae (UNPSJB-PV 1007/9–11), possible metapodial fragment (UNPSJB-PV 1007/33), possible fragment of R astragalus (UNPSJB-PV 1007/32), & numerous indet. elements (UNPSJB-PV 1007/19–28,30,32 and 34). Many of these latter (e.g., UNPSJB-PV 1007/14– 16) are probably partial dorsal or anterior caudal neural spines.
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae indet. Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
Partial skeleton, including partial skull
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
partial skeletons of a turtle