Cañadón del Gato (ACDP-MUCP) (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Las Cortaderas

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (39.1° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 45.8° S, 46.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Huincul Formation (Neuquén Group), Late/Upper Cenomanian to Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.8 Ma)

• Río Limay Subgroup

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

• "The depositional environment has been interpreted as an ephemeral and/or seasonal channel deposit within a semiarid or arid palaeoenvironment."
• "a multistoried sheet-sandstone of channel origin"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• "...bone surfaces are frequently weathered and individual elements exhibit differential compaction...All elements were found disarticulated and were subject to a complex taphonomic history of decomposition, trampling, reworking, and final burial"

Collected by R. Coria et al. in 1996-2001

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. A. Coria and P. J. Currie. 1997. A new theropod from the Río Limay Formation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3, suppl.):40A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55351: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.10.2005, edited by Kaitlin Maguire

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Carcharodontosauridae
Mapusaurus roseae n. gen. n. sp.
Mapusaurus roseae n. gen. n. sp. Coria and Currie 2006 allosauroid
7-9 estimated; MCF PVPH-108