Arroyo China Muerta (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (39.5° S, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° S, 39.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lohan Cura Formation, Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Bonaparte in 1996

Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte. 1999. An armoured sauropod from the Aptian of northern Patagonia, Argentina. Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:1-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51940: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.07.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. sauropod
"new species"