Also known as Salitral Ojo de Agua

Where: Río Negro, Argentina (39.4° S, 67.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° S, 52.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Allen Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• "egg level 2"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; bioturbated, paleosol/pedogenic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

• A T2B (Megaloolithidae indet.) clutch was found containing 25 eggs

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collected in Oct-Dec 2003

Primary reference: L. Salgado, R. A. Coria, C. M. Magalhaes Ribeiro, A. Garrido, R. Rogers, M. E. Simon, A. B. Arcucci, K. Curry Rogers, A. Paulina Carabajal, S. Apesteguia, M. Fernandez, R. A. Garcia, and M. Talevi. 2007. Upper Cretaceous dinosaur nesting sites of Rio Negro (Salitral Ojo de Agua and Salinas de Trapalco-Salitral de Santa Rosa), northern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 28(3):392-404 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/F. Aspromonte]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95694: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.04.2010, edited by Graeme Lloyd

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