El Calafate airport (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as Lago Argentino

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (50.3° S, 72.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.3° S, 61.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Calafate Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• upper levels of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, green sandstone and conglomerate

• "inter- to subtidal deposits under an estuarine regime"
• "sandstones with occasional beds of conglomerates and very few glauconitic mudstones, showing a typically greenish coloration"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: S. Bogan, F. L. Agnolin, and F. E. Novas. 2016. New selachian records from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Patagonia: paleobiogeographical implications and the description of a new taxon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(3):e1105235:1-9 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181059: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.08.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Elasmosauridae indet.
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur
MPM-PV-22859, incomplete cervical centrum and the lateral half of a very fragmentary dorsal vertebra
Chondrichthyes
 Echinorhiniformes - Echinorhinidae
Echinorhinus sp.
Echinorhinus sp. shark
MPM 10034-10036, teeth
 Squaliformes - Squalidae
Protosqualus argentinensis n. sp.
Protosqualus argentinensis n. sp. Bogan et al. 2016 dogfish shark
MPM 10023 (holotype), 10033, 10037-10044, teeth
 Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
Notidanodon dentatus
Notidanodon dentatus Woodward 1886 cow shark
MPM 10020-10022, teeth