Ephemeral island, Lago Colhué Huapi (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Southeast island

Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.6° S, 68.6° W: paleocoordinates 48.2° S, 55.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lago Colhué Huapi Formation (Chubut Group), Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Upper part of the Lago Colhué Huapi Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian–?lower Maastrichtian)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; gray, white, muddy sandstone

• Overbank deposit

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1993, 2000-2005

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: G. Casal, M. Luna, L. Ibiricu, E. Ivany, R. Martínez, M. C. Lamanna, and A. Koprowski. 2002. Hallazgo de una serie caudal articulada de Sauropoda de la Formación Bajo Barreal, Cretácico Superior del sur de Chubut [Discovery of an articulated caudal series of Sauropoda from the Bajo Barreal Formation, Upper Cretaceous of southern Chubut]. Ameghiniana 39(4, suppl.):8R [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52909: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.08.2005, edited by Matthew Oreska, Evangelos Vlachos and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi -
Dipnoi indet.2 Müller 1884 lungfish
UNPSJB-Pv 1047, dentary plate
Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Sektensaurus sanjuanboscoi n. gen. n. sp.3 Ibiricu et al. 2019 ornithopod
UNPSJB-PV 960, postcranial elements
Sektensaurus sanjuanboscoi3 Ibiricu et al. 2019 ornithopod
UNPSJB-PV 973, left ilium
 Saurischia -
Aeolosaurus colhuehuapensis n. sp.1 Casal et al. 2007 sauropod
UNPSJB-PV 959/1 to 959/27, 21 caudal vertebrae
 Loricata - Peirosauridae
Colhuehuapisuchus lunai n. gen. n. sp.4
Colhuehuapisuchus lunai n. gen. n. sp.4 Lamanna et al. 2019 crocodilian
UNPSJB-PV 961 (holotype), anterior end of a mandible