Where: Neuquén, Argentina (39.2° S, 69.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° S, 31.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Virgatosphinctes mendozanus ammonoid zone, Vaca Muerta Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• lower levels of formation, upper part of lower Tithonian ammonite zone given by Fernández (1997)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by J. Bonaparte in 1989; reposited in the MACN
Primary reference: F. de Lapparent de Broin, M. S. de la Fuente, and M. S. Fernández. 2007. Notoemys laticentralis (Chelonii, Pleurodira), Late Jurassic of Argentina: new examination of the anatomical structures and comparisons. Revue de Paléobiologie 26(1):99-136 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79651: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.03.2008, edited by John Alroy, Roger Benson and Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pliosaurus patagonicus n. sp.4
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Cricosaurus sp.5 Wagner 1858 marine crocodile MLP 86-XI-10-8, posterior region of the vertebral column, the second sacral vertebra and 20 caudal vertebrae
Cricosaurus araucanensis n. sp.5 Gasparini and Dellape 1976 marine crocodile Holotype (MLP 72-IV-7-1) comprises: five postaxial cervical vertebrae, 16 dorsal vertebrae, two sacral and four caudal vertebrae, ribs, gastralia, haemal arches, incomplete pectoral girdle and forelimbs, and incomplete pelvic girdle and hind limbs
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Ophthalmosaurus sp.2 Seeley 1874 ichthyosaur MACN-N-32 (holotype) and MLP 83-X1-16-1: Ophthalmosaurus sp. of Gasparini and Goñi (1990)
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