Where: Neuquén, Argentina (38.9° S, 69.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° S, 48.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Portezuelo Formation (Neuquén Group), Late/Upper Turonian to Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 85.8 Ma)
• presumably still corresponds to the Portezuelo Fm. but could be Los Bastos or Sierra Barrosa
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Dr. Fernando Novas and team in 1990 to 1998
Collection methods: mechanical,
• Museo Municipal “Carmen Funes” of Plaza Huincul MCF-PVPH collection
Primary reference: F. E. Novas, M. D. Ezcurra, and F. L. Agnolín. 2006. Humerus of a basal abelisauroid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 8(1):63-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75050: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.09.2007, edited by Roger Benson and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Portezueloemys patagonica n. gen. n. sp.3
Portezueloemys patagonica n. gen. n. sp.3 de la Fuente 2003 sideneck turtle Holotype, MCF-PVPH-338: A skull and partial carapace and plastron; MCF-PVPH-339: A nearly complete plastron
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Prochelidella portezuelae n. sp.3 de la Fuente 2003 sideneck turtle MCF-PVPH- 161. Anterior margin of the carapace and nearly complete plastron, left atlantal arch, and other five cervical vertebrae (third or fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth), both pectoral girdles, left and right humeri and medio-distal extremities of the femora
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Chaoceratodus portezuelensis n. gen. n. sp.1
Chaoceratodus portezuelensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Apesteguia et al. 2007 lungfish MCF-PVPH-373 (holotype), left upper tooth plate
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