Bajo de Santa Rosa locality (MACN) (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Salitral de Santa Rosa, El Matuasto, "Cerro Bonaparte", Lamarque

Where: Río Negro, Argentina (40.1° S, 66.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° S, 52.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Allen Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• lower member of formation; possibly equivalent to "egg level 5"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, fine-grained, yellow sandstone and mudstone

• "a fluvial environment in the basal section"
• "alternated sandstones and mudstones with small lents of conglomerates." "The fossil-bearing bed consists of friable, yellowish, fine-grained clean sandstone enclosed between siltstone layers."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1990–1994; reposited in the MACN

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

Primary reference: F. E. Novas, J. I. Canale, and M. P. Isas. 2003. Un terópodo maniraptor del Campaniano–Maastrichtiano del norte patagónico [A maniraptoran theropod from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of the Patagonian north]. Ameghiniana 40(4 (suppl.)):63R [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49557: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.04.2005, edited by Franco Aspromonte, Philip Mannion and Marc Jones

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Atlantoceratodus patagonicus1 Agnolín 2010 lungfish
MACN-PV RN 1079, left tooth plate; MACN-PV RN 1080, two tooth plates
Reptilia
 Squamata - Madtsoiidae
Madtsoiidae indet.8 Hoffstetter 1961 snake
MACN-PV RN 1051-52, MACN-PV RN 1054: isolated trunk vertebrae
Patagoniophis parvus8 Albino 1986 snake
MACN-PV RN 1049 and MACN-PV RN 1056: incomplete trunk vertebrae
Alamitophis argentinus8 Albino 1986 snake
MACN-PV RN 1053: incomplete trunk vertebra.
 Squamata - Aniliidae
Australophis anilioides7 Gómez et al. 2008 southern snake
MACN-PV RN 1059: almost complete trunk vertebra
 Testudines - Chelidae
Chelidae "indet. 1"8 Gray 1825 sideneck turtle
MACN-PV RN 1089: isolated fragments of posterior peripheral caparace
Chelidae "indet. 2"8 Gray 1825 sideneck turtle
MACN-PV RN 1090: isolated fragments of shell
Chelidae "indet. 3"8 Gray 1825 sideneck turtle
MACN-PV RN 1091: isolated fragments of shell
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosauria indet.11 de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur
MACN-PV RN 1087d (cervical centra)
 Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae
Polycotylidae indet.11 Williston 1908 plesiosaur
MACN-PV RN 1087c (cervical centra)
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet.8 Cope 1869 elasmosaur
MACN-PV RN 1087a-b (cervical centra)
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.8 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
MRPV 431/P to 437/P, fragmentary dentaries
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Abelisauridae indet.9 Bonaparte and Novas 1985 ceratosaur
MACN-Pv-RN 1085, tooth
 Theropoda -
Tetanurae indet.5 Gauthier 1986 tetanuran theropod
MACN-PV RN 1086: an isolated tooth
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Austroraptor cabazai n. gen. n. sp.10
Austroraptor cabazai n. gen. n. sp.10 Novas et al. 2008 maniraptoran
MML-195
Aves
 Neornithes -
cf. Neornithes sp.2 bird
MML 206; left carpometacarpus
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Megaloolithidae indet.8 titanosaurid
MACN-PV RN 1096: fragments of eggshells and eight partial eggs
 Saurischia - Saltasauridae
Bonatitan reigi n. gen. n. sp.8
Bonatitan reigi n. gen. n. sp.8 Martinelli and Forasiepi 2004 saltasaurine
MACN-PV RN 821 (holotype); MACN-PV RN 1061
 Saurischia - Faveoloolithidae
Sphaerovum erbeni8 Mones 1980 sauropod
 Eosuchia - Sphenodontidae
Sphenodontinae indet.3 Cope 1871 lepidosaur
MACN-PV RN 1062, middle portion of the right lower jaw
Amphibia
 Salientia - Calyptocephalellidae
Calyptocephalellidae indet.12 Reig 1960 frog
MACN-PV RN 1067, five incomplete vertebrae; MACN-PV RN 1068, five incomplete angulosplenials; MACN-PV RN 1070, fused radio and ulna
Calyptocephalellidae indet.12 Reig 1960 frog
MACN-PV RN 1063, fragment of right maxilla; MACN-PV RN 1066, complete right humerus; MACN-PV RN 1069, twenty three fragments of ornamented cranial hones including incomplete maxillae, and frontoparietals
 Salientia - Pipidae
Kuruleufenia xenopoides n. gen. n. sp.6
Kuruleufenia xenopoides n. gen. n. sp.6 Gómez 2016 clawed frog
MACN-PV RN 1064, almost complete sphenethmoid; MACN-PV RN 1065, sphenethmoid
Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amia sp.4 Linnaeus 1766 bowfin
MML 449, an incomplete anterior portion of right dentary
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet.8 Cuvier 1825 gar
MACN-PV RN 1071, six vertebral centra
 Teleostei -
Teleostei indet.8
MACN-PV RN 1077, ten hemispherical teeth of different sizes
Siluriformes indet.8 catfish
MACN-PV RN 1074, four very small incomplete pectoral spines; MACN-PV RN 1084, incomplete pectoral spine lacking its proxinial portion
 Siluriformes - Diplomystidae
Diplomystidae indet.8 Eigenman 1890 catfish
MACN-PV RN 1072, four incomplete pectoral spines
 Acanthomorphata - Percichthyidae
cf. Percichthyidae indet.8 Jordan and Eigenman 1890
MACN-PV RN 1081, nineteen fragmentary vertebrae
Gnathostomata
  -
Chondrichthyes indet.8 Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish
MACN-PV RN 1076: eleven complete vertebral centra