Río Senguerr bend (PVL): Coniacian, Argentina
collected by J. F. Bonaparte 1976

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Avetheropoda
Powell 2003
Reptilia
1 individual
PVL 4628 and MACN-CH 217 (associated partial skeleton comprising three dorsal vertebrae, two caudal vertebrae, left scapula, left humerus, left radius, both ulnae, right pubis, proximal half of right femur, distal part of left tibia, distal two-thirds of left fibula, right astragalus, and calcaneum)
Bonaparte 1979
Bonaparte and Gasparini 1979
Powell 2003
    = Elaltitan lilloi n. gen., n. sp. Mannion and Otero 2012
Mannion and Otero 2012
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut County:Sarmiento
Coordinates: 46.0° South, 69.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.9° South, 42.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Coniacian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Coniacian
Age range of interval: 89.8 - 85.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chubut Formation:Lago Colhué Huapi
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower part of the Lago Colhué Huapi Formation (Ibiricu et al. 2019)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "yellow sandstones"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:J. F. Bonaparte Collection dates:1976
Metadata
Also known as:Elaltitan lilloi type
Database number:51620
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:F. Aspromonte Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-09 05:57:31 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-09 05:57:31
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
59610. J. F. Bonaparte. 1978. El Mesozoico de America de Sur y sus Tetrapodos [The Mesozoic of South America and its tetrapods]. Opera Lilloana 26:1-596 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

55148 J. F. Bonaparte. 1979. Faunas y paleobiogografia de los tetrápodos mesozoicos de América del Sur [Faunas and paleobiogeography of the Mesozoic tetrapods of South America]. Ameghiniana 16(3–4):217-238 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30646ETE J. F. Bonaparte. 1984. Jurassic and Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrates of South America. National Geographic Society Research Reports (1975) 16:115-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13929ETE J. F. Bonaparte and Z. B. Gasparini. 1979. Los sauropodos de los grupos Neuquén y Chubut, y sus relaciones cronologicas [The sauropods of the Neuquén and Chubut Groups, and their chronological relationships]. Actas del VII Congreso Geológico Argentino, Neuquén 2:393-406 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76410 G. A. Casal, J. O. Allard, and N. Foix. 2015. Análisis estratigráfico y paleontológico del Cretácico Superior en la Cuenca del Golfo San Jorge: nueva unidad litoestratigráfica para el Grupo Chubut [Stratigraphic and paleontological analysis of the Upper Cretaceous in the Golfo San Jorge Basin: a new lithostratigraphic unit for the Chubut Group]. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 72(1):77-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
66791 G. A. Casal, R. D. Martinez, M. Luna and L. M. Ibiricu. 2016. Ordenamiento y caracterización faunisitica del Cretacico superior del Grupo Chubut, Cuenca del Golfo San Jorge, Argentina. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 19(1):53-70 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
41410 P. D. Mannion and A. Otero. 2012. A reappraisal of the Late Cretaceous Argentinean sauropod dinosaur Argyrosaurus superbus, with a description of a new titanosaur genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(3):614-638 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/F. Aspromonte]
58994 R. D. F. Martínez, M. C. Lamanna, F. E. Novas, R. C. Ridgley, G. A. Casal, J. E. Martínez, J. R. Vita and L. M. Witmer. 2016. A basal lithostrotian titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) with a complete skull: implications for the evolution and paleobiology of Titanosauria. PLoS ONE 11(4):e0151661:1-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13712ETE J. E. Powell. 2003. Revision of South American titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston 111:1-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]