Mina Antonio Mellado, Cerro Mesa (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Ingeniero Jacobacci

Where: Río Negro, Argentina (41.3° S, 69.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° S, 55.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Angostura Colorada Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• also could be Coli Toro Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. M. Casamiquela in 1952; reposited in the MACN

Primary reference: J. E. Powell. 2003. Revision of South American titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 111:1-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 51593: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
MACN 17494