Also known as Puertasaurus locality
Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (49.9° S, 72.1° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° S, 58.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
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; lenticular, fine-grained, gray sandstone and mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
• Four disarticulated vertebrae, including most of a cervical vertebra, a complete dorsal 2, and the centra of two caudal vertebrae
Collected in 2001
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• MPM, Museo Padre Molina Paleontología de Vertebrados, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz
Primary reference: F. E. Novas, L. Salgado, J. O. Calvo and F. L. Agnolín. 2005. Giant titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 7(1):37-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/F. Aspromonte]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 62910: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Puertasaurus reuili n. gen. n. sp.
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