SP-17, Saurópodo sector (eastern flank of Río de Las Chinas Valley): Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Chile
collected 2015-2019
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Anura indet.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
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Reptilia
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Ornithischia indet.
(Seeley 1888)
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Stegouros elengassen n. gen., n. sp.
Soto-Acuña et al. 2021
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Soto-Acuña et al. 2021 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| Holotype: CPAP-3165 (mostly complete skeleton) | ||||||||||
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Sauropoda indet.
(Marsh 1878)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelidae
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cf. Yaminuechelys sp.
de la Fuente et al. 2001
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| CPAP 4944 and 4945 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Panchelidae indet.
Joyce et al. 2004
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| CPAP 5941 and 5942 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Chile | State/province: | Última Esperanza |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° South, 72.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.9° South, 60.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 74.9 ± 2.1 to 71.7 ± 1.2 Ma (U/Pb) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Dorotea |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine sandy mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: sandy mudstones with fine-grained sandstone lenses | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 2015-2019 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 210130 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion, E. Dunne | Enterer: | P. Mannion, E. Dunne |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2020-05-21 07:23:08 | Last modified: | 2020-05-21 07:24:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2020-05-21 07:23:08 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 72449. | J. Alarcón-Muñoz, S. Soto-Acuña, L. M. E. Manríquez, R. A. Fernández, D. Bajor, J. P. Guevara, F. Suazo Lara, M. A. Leppe, and A. O. Vargas. 2020. Freshwater turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira) in the Upper Cretaceous of Chilean Patagonia. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 102:102652 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 78857 | S. Soto-Acuña, A. O. Vargas, J. Kaluza, M. A. Leppe, J. F. Botelho, J. Palma-Liberona, C. Simon-Gutstein, R. A. Fernández, H. Ortiz, V. Milla, B. Aravena, L. M. E. Manríquez, J. Alarcón-Muñoz, J. Pino, C. Trevisan, H. Mansilla, L. Hinojosa, V. Muñoz-Walther, and D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2021. Bizarre tail weaponry in a transitional ankylosaur from subantarctic Chile. Nature 600:259-263 [E. Dunne/E. Dunne] |