Loma del Lindero (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Rincón de los Sauces, Lago Mari Menuco

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (37.4° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° S, 49.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Plottier Formation (Neuquén Group), Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 83.5 Ma)

• Río Neuquén Subgroup, originally assigned to Portezuelo Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; mudstone and fine-grained sandstone

• "meandering rivers" with fossils in overbank deposits

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. O. Calvo, M. Palomo, S. Palomo in 1997-2001

Primary reference: J. O. Calvo and B. J. González Riga. 1999. Hallazgos de Theropoda y Titanosauridae y su paleoambiente en una nueva localidad de Rincón de Los Sauces [Discoveries of Theropoda and Titanosauridae and their paleoenvironment in a new locality from Rincon de Los Sauces]. XIV Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados, Neuquén y Plaza Huincul, 18 al 20 de mayo de 1998, Resúmenes. Ameghiniana 36(1):97 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55445: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.10.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Muyelensaurus pecheni n. gen. n. sp.2
Muyelensaurus pecheni n. gen. n. sp.2 Calvo et al. 2007 sauropod
4 adults, 1 juvenile; MRS-Pv 50,-54-60, 65-68, 70-72, 87-91, 121-23, 125, 127-28, 131-32, 134-35, 137, 139, 141-47, 152, 154, 157, 161-62, 164-66, 168, 170-71, 173-74, 181-82, 187, 189-90, 193, 198-200, 202-04, 209, 212, 214, 224, 229-32, 235-37, 242-43, 245-47, 251-52, 257-59, 266, 271, 273-74, 279, 337, 352-53, 355-58, 369, 371, 375, 377-379, 387, 389, 391-92, 396-97, 399, 404, 408, 412, 419-22, 428-31
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Brachyrostra indet.3 Canale et al. 2008 ceratosaur
 Testudines - Panchelidae
Linderochelys rinconensis n. gen. n. sp.1
Linderochelys rinconensis n. gen. n. sp.1 de la Fuente et al. 2007 sideneck turtle
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