Also known as Los Hornos Hill, Viedma Lake
Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (49.9° S, 72.1° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° S, 58.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Cerro Fortaleza Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• Previously attributed to the Pari Aike Formation, but regarded as the Cerro Fortaleza Formation by Sickman et al. (2018), with a Campanian age (Ghiglione et al. 2021)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray mudstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
• MPM–10001, partially articulated specimen preserving rostrum, jaws, and teeth, precaudal
•vertebral column and ribs, pectoral and pelvic girdles, and fore and hind limb bones.
Collected in 2000
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• MPM, Museo Padre Molina, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz
Primary reference: F. E. Novas, A. V. Cambiaso, and A. Ambrosio. 2004. A new basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. Ameghiniana 41(1):75-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52980: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 30.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Talenkauen santacrucensis n. gen. n. sp.
Talenkauen santacrucensis n. gen. n. sp. Novas et al. 2004 ornithopod MPM-PV 10001 plus neonatal teeth
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