Also known as Carnotaurus type
Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.0° S, 67.5° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° S, 56.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: La Colonia Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• "near top of Gorro Frigio Formation", described as "Albian or Cenomanian", but now considered La Colonia Formation
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•La Colonia Fm = Maastrichtian (Clyde et al. 2021)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, hematitic siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, concretion, soft parts
Collected by J. F. Bonaparte in 1984
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte. 1985. A horned Cretaceous carnosaur from Patagonia. National Geographic Research 1(1):149-151 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 25534: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.09.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Carnotaurus sastrei n. gen. n. sp.
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