Also known as Velocisaurus type, Boca del Sapo; Neuquen City

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (38.9° S, 68.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 49.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "lower sandy section of the Rio Colorado Formation, Coniacian of the Neuquen Group (translated, pg. 71)" - now = Bajo de la Carpa Fm., Río Colorado Subgroup

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; poorly lithified, fine-grained, medium, red, white sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by O. de Ferrariis, Z. Gasparini in 1985

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte. 1991. Los vertebrados fósiles de la Formación Rio Colorado, de la Ciudad de Neuquén y Cercanías, Cretácico Superior, Argentina [The vertebrate fossils of the Rio Colorado Formation, from the city of Neuquén and surrounding areas, Upper Cretaceous, Argentina]. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" e Instituto Nacional de Investigación de las Ciencias Naturales: Paleontología 4(3):17-123 [J. Head/J. Head/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47796: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 01.03.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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