Also known as Cerro Aguada del León; Comahuesaurus windhauseni type
Where: Neuquén, Argentina (39.6° S, 70.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.8° S, 38.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Puesto Quiroga Member (Lohan Cura Formation), Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)
• middle-upper section of member (total thickness 90 m), which is the basalmost unit of the formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1995-2002
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: L. Salgado, A. Garrido, S. E. Cocca and J. R. Cocca. 2004. Lower Cretaceous rebbachisaurid sauropods from Cerro Aguada del León (Lohan Cura Formation), Neuquén province, northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(4):903-912 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46076: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.12.2004, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Comahuesaurus windhauseni n. gen. n. sp.
Comahuesaurus windhauseni n. gen. n. sp. Carballido et al. 2012 sauropod |