Also known as Cerro Quimal, Cerro Químal
Where: Antofagasta, Chile (23.0° S, 68.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 33.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: El Bordo Formation, Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• middle part of beds
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: SNGM: Colección Paleontológica del Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería de Chile
Primary reference: P. Salinas, L. G. Marshall, and P. Sepúlveda. 1991. Vertebrados continentales del Paleozoico y Mesozoico de Chile [Continental vertebrates of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic of Chile]. Actas del VI Congreso Geológicao Chileno, Viña del Mar 310-313 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 170676: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.06.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chilenosuchus forttae n. gen. n. sp.
Chilenosuchus forttae n. gen. n. sp. Casamiquela 1980 aetosaur SNGM 987 (holotype), partial skeleton
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