Also known as Gigantobatrachus Type Locality

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (48.5° S, 67.7° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° S, 62.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Río Frías Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Roth, Pascual, Parodi; reposited in the MLP

Collection methods: quarrying,

• The material has been collected by S. Roth during the old collections of MLP in Santa Cruz. Then, Pascual and Parodi re-discovered the materials in the MLP collections.

Primary reference: R. M. Casamiquela. 1958. Un anuro gigante del Mioceno de Patagonia. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 13(3):171-183 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228751: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 03.01.2023

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