Puesto Nidaros, Austral Basin (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (49.8° S, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 55.9° S, 51.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cerro Toro Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. B. Aguirre- Urreta, F. Medina

• Repository: Palaeontological Collections of the University of Buenos Aires (CPBA)

Primary reference: M. Cichowolski. 2003. The nautiloid genus Cymatoceras from the Cretaceous of the Neuquén and Austral basins, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 24(4):375-390 [M. Clapham/K. Okamoto]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175826: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Kristina Okamoto on 13.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Cymatoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 nautiloid
Cymatoceras patagonicum n. sp. Cichowolski 2003 nautiloid