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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Atlantoceratodus patagonicus n. sp.
Atlantoceratodus patagonicus n. sp. Agnolín 2010 lungfish MML 196 (holotype), right upper tooth plate
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