Puesto El Alamo, Austral Basin, Puesto El Alamo Formation, Santa Cruz (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Where: Argentina (49.6° S, 72.2° W: paleocoordinates 55.4° S, 52.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Puesto El Alamo Formation, Turonian to Turonian (93.9 - 86.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone and lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. B. Aguirre-Urreta. 1989. The Cretaceous decapod Crustacea of Argentina and the Antarctic Pensinsula. Palaeontology 32(3):499-552 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66638: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Placenticeras sp. Meek 1876 ammonite
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia arbei n. sp. Aguire-Urreta 1989 clawed lobster