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
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales of the Universidad Nacional de San Juan in 2003
Primary reference: R. N. MartÃnez, 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
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Coloradisuchus abelini n. gen. n. sp.
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