Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (48.1° S, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 50.0° S, 22.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Laguna Colorada Formation (El Tranquilo Group), Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; nodular, brown, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. Pol and team
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: D. Pol and J. E. Powell. 2007. Skull anatomy of Mussaurus patagonicus (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Patagonia. Historical Biology 19(1):125-144 [O. Rauhut/O. Rauhut]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179278: authorized by Oliver Rauhut, entered by Oliver Rauhut on 10.06.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Mussaurus patagonicus Bonaparte and Vince 1979 sauropodomorph seven closely associated juvenile individuals
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