Also known as Salitral Ojo de Agua
Where: Río Negro, Argentina (39.4° S, 67.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° S, 53.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Allen Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• "Egg level 4"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, sandy sandstone and muddy mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
• T2A Megaloolithidae indet. eggs
Preservation: replaced with calcite
Collected in Oct-Dec 2003
• Eggs cleaned using ultrasound
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 96090: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.05.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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