Bajo Trapal-Có (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Bajo de Los Menucos

Where: Río Negro, Argentina (39.8° S, 66.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° S, 52.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Allen Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, fine-grained, yellow sandstone and siltstone

• "The fossil-bearing bed consists of friable, yellowish, fine-grained clean sandstone enclosed between siltstone layers."

Size class: macrofossils

• Right upper tooth plate

Collection methods: surface (float), sieve,

• MML, Museo Municipal Héctor Cabazza, Lamarque, Argentina

Primary reference: F. Agnolín. 2010. A new species of the genus Atlantoceratodus (Dipnoiformes: Ceratodontoidei) from the Uppermost Cretaceous of Patagonia and a brief overview of fossil dipnoans from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of South America. Brazilian Geographical Journal 1(2):162-210 [E. Vlachos/F. Aspromonte]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232505: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 29.11.2023

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Atlantoceratodus patagonicus n. sp. Agnolín 2010 lungfish
MML 196 (holotype), right upper tooth plate