Hualtarán, Quebrada Larga (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: San Luis, Argentina (32.5° S, 67.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° S, 34.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: La Cruz Formation (Gigante Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• pre-dates the Albian Lagarcitos Fm. & listed as Aptian by Codorniu & Gasparini (2007); fossils in upper third of La Cruz Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; fine-grained, green, argillaceous sandstone and conglomerate

• "The paleoenvironment of the La Cruz environment suggests low transport and chaotic deposition, probably related to high density flows of the alluvial type"
• "greenish sandstones"; "fine argillaceous sands, intercalated between conglomerate deposits"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. F. Bonaparte & T. M. Sánchez in Apr-May 1972

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte and T. M. Sánchez. 1975. Restos de un pterosaurio, Puntanipterus globosus de la Formación La Cruz, Provincia de San Luis, Argentina [Remains of a pterosaur, Puntanipterus globosus from the La Cruz Formation, San Luis Province, Argentina]. Actas del Primer Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia, Tucumán 2:105-113 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86514: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
"Puntanipterus globosus n. gen. n. sp." = Pterodaustro guinazui
"Puntanipterus globosus n. gen. n. sp." = Pterodaustro guinazui Bonaparte 1970 pterosaur
PVL 3869 (holotype), tibiotarsus and fibula