Islas Malvinas: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Argentina
collected 1991

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
tree trunks
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
? Hadrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1918
1 individual
MPHN-Pv 01
    = Willinakaqe salitralensis Juárez Valieri et al. 2010
Juárez Valieri et al. 2010
    = Lapampasaurus cholinoi n. gen., n. sp. Coria et al. 2012
Coria et al. 2012
MPHN-Pv-01 - holotype (postcranial skeleton)
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:La Pampa County:Puelén
Coordinates: 38.0° South, 67.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.8° South, 53.2° 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
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Malargüe Formation:Allen Member:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of Allen Formaiton
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:current ripples,medium,gray,yellow sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: medium-grained sandstones, grayish-yellow color
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: fluvial deposition
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1991
Metadata
Also known as:Lapampasaurus cholinoi locality
Database number:48829
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:F. Aspromonte Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-30 14:22:19 Last modified:2024-03-11 18:11:05
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-30 14:22:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13012.ETE B. J. González-Riga and S. Casadío. 2000. Primer registro de Dinosauria (Ornithischia, Hadrosauridae) en la provincia de La Pampa (Argentina) y sus implicancias paleobiogeográficas. Ameghiniana 37(3):341-351 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

76400 R. A. Coria. 2011. Revisión de la diversidad de los dinosaurios hadrosáuridos de Patagonia [Revision of hadrosaurid dinosaur diversity of Patagonia]. Reunión Anual de Comunicaciones de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina. LIbro de Resúmenes y Actividades. Ameghiniana 48(4 (suppl.)):R9-R10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55640 R. A. Coria. 2014. South American hadrosaurs: considerations on their diversity. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 332-339 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46071 R. A. Coria, B. González Riga, and S. Casadio. 2012. Un nuevo hadrosáurido (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) de la Formación Allen, provincia de La Pampa, Argentina [A new hadrosaurid (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Allen Formation, La Pampa province, Argentina]. Ameghiniana 49(4):552-572 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
75729 P. Cruzado-Caballero, L. S. Filippi, A. H. Méndez, A. C. Garrido, and I. Díaz-Martínez. 2018. First ornithopod remains from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Santonian, Upper Cretaceous), northern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 83:182-193 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63036 P. Cruzado-Caballero and J. E. Powell. 2017. Bonapartesaurus rionegrensis, a new hadrosaurine dinosaur from South America: implications for phylogenetic and biogeographic relations with North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(2):e1289381:1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17237ETE B. González Riga and S. Casadío. 2000. Nuevos restos de Hadrosauridae (Ornithischia) en América del Sur procedentes de la Formación Allen, Provincia de La Pampa, Argentina [New remains of Hadrosauridae (Ornithischia) in South American from the Allen Formation, La Pampa province, Argentina]. Actas XVI Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrado, San Luis, Argentina 25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36963 R. D. Juárez Valieri, J. A. Haro, L. E. Fiorelli and J. O. Calvo. 2010. A new hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Allen Formation (Late Cretaceous) of Patagonia, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, neuvo serie 12(2):217-231 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]