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

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Glypheidae
Glyphea oculata Woods 1957 decapod
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Anagaudryceras cf. politissimum Kossmat 1895 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites cf. kirki Matsumoto 1959 ammonite