Bajo Cerro Indice, Austral Basin, Mata Amarilla Formation, Santa Cruz (Cretaceous of Argentina)
Where: Argentina (49.8° S, 71.8° W: paleocoordinates 54.1° S, 54.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mata Amarilla Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone and lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. B. Aguirre-Urreta. 1989. The Cretaceous decapod Crustacea of Argentina and the Antarctic Pensinsula. Palaeontology 32(3):499-552 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 66644: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.10.2006
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Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca | |
Glyphea oculata Woods 1957 decapod | |
Cephalopoda | |
Anagaudryceras cf. politissimum Kossmat 1895 ammonite | |
Polyptychoceras (Polyptychoceras) sp. Yabe 1927 ammonite | |
Baculites cf. kirki Matsumoto 1959 ammonite |