Also known as Uruguaysuchus aznarezi type, Mones Loc. 10
Where: Paysandú, Uruguay (32.3° S, 57.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° S, 33.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Guichón Formation (Paysandú Group), Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 83.6 Ma)
• See discussion in Soto et al. (2011, 2012) regarding the age of the Guichón Formation. Also listed as Mercedes Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by C. Rusconi, J. Aznarez in the 1930s
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: C. Rusconi. 1933. Sobre reptiles cretáceos del Uruguay (Uruguaysuchus aznarezi, n.g.n.sp.) y sus relaciones con los notosúquidos de Patagonia [On the Cretaceous reptiles of Uruguay (Uruguaysuchus aznarezi, n.g.n.sp.) and their relationships with the notosuchids of Patagonia]. Instituto de Geología y Perforaciones Boletín 19:1-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 65322: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.09.2006, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Uruguaysuchus aznarezi n. gen. n. sp." = Uruguaysuchus aznarezi, "Uruguaysuchus terrai n. sp." = Uruguaysuchus aznarezi
"Uruguaysuchus aznarezi n. gen. n. sp." = Uruguaysuchus aznarezi Rusconi 1933 crocodilian CA unnumbered - holotype (an approximately.1.2-m-long articulated adult individual (including a complete skull, mandible, right forelimb, 18 vertebrae, both ilia and partial right hindlimb, as well as a few associated osteoderms); 5 partial paratype skeletons also found, but now lost (Soto et al. 2011); FC-DPV 2320 - referred specimen (partial skull, a lower jaw and three cervical vertebrae)
"Uruguaysuchus terrai n. sp." = Uruguaysuchus aznarezi Rusconi 1933 crocodilian CA unnumbered - type (a complete mandible and skull in articulation)
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