Also known as Rincón de los Sauces
Where: Neuquén, Argentina (37.4° S, 68.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° S, 49.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Neuquén Group), Middle Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• Locality relocated and attributed to the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Filippi 2015), near its base (Pérez Moreno et al. 2023).
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•Original description: level given only as "Río Neuquén Formation", which is now a group, so formation could be either Plottier or Portezuelo. Portezuelo has been subdivided Garrido 2010) into 3 formations - unknown which equivalent here.
•JA: from the Río Neuquén Formation in the Neuquén Group according to Turner and Calvo 2005
•MC: Rio Neuquen is a subgroup, not a formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Benítez, J. O. Calvo in 1997
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Museo Municipal Urquiza, Neuquén collection
Primary reference: J. O. Calvo and B. J. González Riga. 2003. Rinconsaurus caudamirus gen. et sp. nov., a new titanosaurid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. Revista Geológica de Chile 30(2):333-353 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 56157: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.11.2005, edited by John Alroy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Rinconsaurus caudamirus n. gen. n. sp.
Rinconsaurus caudamirus n. gen. n. sp. Calvo and González Riga 2003 sauropod MRS-Pv 26; MAU-PV-CRS 117, 263, two teeth; MAU-PV-CRS 21, one anterior cervical vertebrae; MAU-PV-CRS 2, one middle cervical vertebra; MAU-PV-CRS 3, 4, 8, three posterior cervical vertebrae; MAU-PV-CRS 05/3, 06/1, 06/2, 9 anterior dorsal vertebrae; MAU- PV-CRS 05/1, 05/2, middle dorsal vertebra; MAU-PV-CRS 17, 18, posterior dorsal vertebrae; MAU-PV-CRS 11, 13, 16, 19, dorsal vertebral centra; MAU-PV-CRS 112, dorsal rib; MAU-PV-CRS 41/1, 41/2, two sacral vertebrae; MAU-PV-CRS 22, one caudosacral vertebrae; MAU-PV-CRS 23, 25/1, 25/2, 25/3, anterior caudal vertebrae; MAU-PV-CRS 27/1, 27/2, 27/3, 28/1, 28/2, 31, six middle caudal vertebrae; MAU-PV-CRS 29/1, 29/2, 29/3, 30/1, 30/2, 30/3, 32, 34, 35, 36/1, 36/2, 38, 39, 40, fourteen posterior caudal vertebrae; MAU-PV-CRS 20, 42, 93, 99, 109, 110, 113, haemapophyses; MAU-PV-CRS 43, R scapula & coracoid; MAU-PV-CRS 46, 103, R sternal plates; MAU-PV-CRS 104, L sternal plate; MAU-PV- CRS 47, R humerus; MAU-PV-CRS 98/1, 98/2, 98/3, 98/4, 111 five R metacarpals; MAU-PV-CRS 98/5 L metacarpal; MAU-PV-CRS 96/b, R ilium; MAU-PV-CRS 96/a, 275/1, L ilia; MAU-PV-CRS 97/b, L pubis; MAU-PV-CRS 97/a, 100, R pubes; MAU-PV-CRS 94, 101, R ischia; MAU-PV-CRS 49, R femur; MAU-PV-CRS 92, L femur
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