west slope, Sierra de San Bernardo: Cenomanian - Turonian, Argentina
collected by C. Ameghino

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
1 specimen
MACN A-10863, left incomplete maxillar
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut
Coordinates: 45.5° South, 69.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.6° South, 49.9° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Cenomanian - Turonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 5 - Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Cenomanian - Turonian
Age range of interval: 100.5 - 89.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chubut Formation:Bajo Barreal
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "pre-Maastrichtian Senonian"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "variegated sandstones"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Bioerosion:none
Encrustation:none
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MACN
Collectors:C. Ameghino
Metadata
Also known as:Campylodon type
Database number:51621
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:F. Aspromonte Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-09 06:05:09 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-09 06:05:09
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
59060. F. v. Huene. 1929. Los sauriquios y ornitisquios del Cretáceo argentino. Anales del Museo de La Plata, serie 2 3:1-196 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
16547ETE J. F. Bonaparte. 1996. Cretaceous tetrapods of Argentina. Münchner Geowissenschaften Abhandlungen 30:73-130 [M. Carrano/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]
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]
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]