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
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 | |
Campylodon ameghinoi n. gen. n. sp.
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