La Bonita Hill quarry (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as Cerro Policía

Where: Río Negro, Argentina (39.6° S, 68.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.2° S, 49.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Neuquén Group), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• Río Colorado Subgroup; bed at top of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

• "mid- to low-energy fluvial regime"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1990s–2011

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. Apesteguía. 2004. Bonitasaura salgadoi gen. et sp. nov.: a beaked sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Naturwissenschaften 91(10):493-497 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45407: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.10.2004, edited by Richard Butler and Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines -
Pleurodira indet.3
Pleurodira indet.3 sideneck turtle
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae indet.2
Abelisauridae indet.2 Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
MPCA 249 MPCA 251, teeth
 Theropoda - Megaraptoridae
Megaraptoridae indet.4
Megaraptoridae indet.4 Novas et al. 2013 coelurosaur
MPCA 247, tooth
 Saurischia -
Bonitasaura salgadoi n. gen. n. sp.
Bonitasaura salgadoi n. gen. n. sp. Apesteguía 2004 sauropod
MPCA 460, partially articulated subadult skeleton (holotype); MPCA 467, 468
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.1
Pterosauria indet.1 Kaup 1834 pterosaur
 Loricata -
Neosuchia indet.2
Neosuchia indet.2 Clark 1988 crocodilian
MPCA 246, tooth
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet.1
Crocodylia indet.1 Owen 1842 crocodilian
1Gallina and Apesteguía 2011; 2Gianechini et al. 2011; 3Maniel and de la Fuente 2012; 4Meso et al. 2022