Tomé (Cretaceous of Chile)

Where: Chile (36.6° S, 73.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° S, 60.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quiriquina Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. A. Otero, S. Soto-Acuña, and D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2015. El registro fósil de plesiosaurios (Sauropterigia) en Chile. Publicación Ocasional del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile 63:151-188 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 221030: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.06.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Aristonectinae indet. elasmosaur
SGO.PV.91 and SGO.PV.92