Cerro Cóndor NE sauropod site (Jurassic to of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.7° S, 71.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° S, 32.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cañadón Calcáreo Formation (Sierra de Olte Group), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2003

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

Primary reference: O. W. M. Rauhut, K. Remes, R. Fechner, G. Cladera, and P. Puerta. 2005. Discovery of a short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period of Patagonia. Nature 435:670-672 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51287: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Dicraeosauridae
Brachytrachelopan mesai n. gen. n. sp.
Brachytrachelopan mesai n. gen. n. sp. Rauhut et al. 2005 dicraeosaurid
MPEF-PV 1716