west slope, Sierra de San Bernardo (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Campylodon type

Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.5° S, 69.7° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° S, 47.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bajo Barreal Formation (Chubut Group), Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)

• "pre-Maastrichtian Senonian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• "variegated sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

• It preserved seven alveoli, one functional tooth and crown fragments

Collected by C. Ameghino; reposited in the MACN

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1929. Los sauriquios y ornitisquios del Cretáceo argentino. Anales del Museo de La Plata, serie 2 3:1-196 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51621: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Campylodon ameghinoi n. gen. n. sp.
Campylodon ameghinoi n. gen. n. sp. Huene 1927 sauropod
MACN A-10863, left incomplete maxillar