Also known as Domeyko Range
Where: Antofagasta, Chile (21.9° S, 68.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.0° S, 48.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tolar Formation, Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• "basal portion of the sedimentary sequence"; dating of formation uncertain
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate and red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2000-2001
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
• SGO: Sección Paleontología, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago
Primary reference: G. Chong Diaz, M. Vargas, D. Rubilar, M. Suarez, R. P. Cáceres and A. W. A. Kellner. 2000. Cretaceous dinosaur locality at the Atacama Desert, northern Chile. Actas XVI Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrado, San Luis, Argentina 16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 59975: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur | |
Atacamatitan chilensis n. gen. n. sp.
Atacamatitan chilensis n. gen. n. sp. Kellner et al. 2011 sauropod |