Also known as La Buitrera Paleontological Area, LBPA, Cerro Policia

Where: Río Negro, Argentina (39.6° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 46.7° S, 44.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Candeleros Formation (Neuquén Group), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• The outcrops exposed at the LBPA belong to the upper section of the Candeleros Formation, the basal unit of the Neuquén Group, which is considered to have accumulated during the Cenomanian

•Within each of these localities, snake remains were recovered from a large number of different sublocalities, sites, or one-off quarries.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: eolian; lithified, red sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by G. Turazzini

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, ,

• Material stored at MCPA

Primary reference: P. M. Makovicky, S. Apesteguía, and F. Gianechini. 2016. A new, almost complete specimen of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis (Dinosauria: Theropoda) impacts our understanding of alvarezsauroid evolution. XXX Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados. Resúmenes. Ameghiniana 53(6 (suppl.)):62 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206599: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 21.11.2019, edited by Matthew Carrano and Eren Tasimov

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