5 km west of La Esquina (Triassic of Argentina)

Where: La Rioja, Argentina (30.0° S, 68.1° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° S, 31.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Los Colorados Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Upper Los Colorados Formation (middle Norian)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; red, silty sandstone

• high-sinuosity channels with mature calcisols in the floodplains
• reddish silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales of the Universidad Nacional de San Juan in 2003

Primary reference: R. N. Martínez, O. A. Alcober, and D. Pol. 2018. A new protosuchid crocodyliform (Pseudosuchia, Crocodylomorpha) from the Norian Los Colorados Formation, northwestern Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(4):e1491047:1-12 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200293: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 27.03.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Protosuchidae
Coloradisuchus abelini n. gen. n. sp.
Coloradisuchus abelini n. gen. n. sp. Martínez et al. 2018 crocodilian
CRILARPV 301 - holotype