Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.3° S, 69.6° W: paleocoordinates 51.9° S, 47.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Bajo Barreal Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian to Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.3 Ma)
• upper portion of the Lower Member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. C. Sciutto, J. F. Bonaparte and crew in 1980-1985
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
• site discovered by J. C. Scuitto, then worked successively by MCN (1980) and UNSJB
Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte. 1984. Jurassic and Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrates of South America. National Geographic Society Research Reports (1975) 16:115-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38952: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.05.2004, edited by Roger Benson and Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes4
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Xenotarsosaurus bonapartei n. gen. n. sp.4
Xenotarsosaurus bonapartei n. gen. n. sp.4 MartÃnez et al. 1986 ceratosaur "a Theropoda with femora of 70 cm and with very peculiar dorsal vertebrae"
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Prochelidella argentinae n. gen. n. sp.3
Prochelidella argentinae n. gen. n. sp.3 Lapparent de Broin and de la Fuente 2001 sideneck turtle MACN-CH-1680, anterior part of a dorsal carapace, mostly in imprint, showing the anterior border and the three first pleurals and neurals. Preserved bony part of peripherals 1 to 3 (left or right), half nuchal and lateral pleurals 1 and 2. Discovered by Dr Bonaparte
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Bonapartemys bajobarrealis n. gen. n. sp.3
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