Also known as Loja
Where: Loja, Ecuador (4.2° S, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 64.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Río Playas Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Río Playas Formation (=Casanga Formation); Alamor-Lancones Basin
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Víctor Francisco Celi Ríos
Primary reference: S. Apesteguía, J. E. Soto Luzuriaga, P. A. Gallina, J. Tamay Granda, and G. A. Guamán Jaramillo. 2020. The first dinosaur remains from the Cretaceous of Ecuador. Cretaceous Research 108:104345 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 206833: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 05.12.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Yamanasaurus lojaensis n. gen. n. sp.
Yamanasaurus lojaensis n. gen. n. sp. Apesteguía et al. 2020 saltasaurine YM125 UTPL 002 and YM-INPC-014-016 - holotype
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