Los Rosanos, Valle Edén (Jurassic to of Uruguay)

Where: Tacuarembó, Uruguay (31.8° S, 56.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 20.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Batoví Member (Tacuarembó Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• "base of Batoví member" (Soto and Perea 2010)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; white, yellow sandstone

• "yellowish-white sandstone"

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Mones. 1980. Nuevos elementos de la paleoherpetofauna del Uruguay (Crocodilia y Dinosauria) [New elements of the paleoherpetofauna of Uruguay (Crocodilia and Dinosauria)]. Actas II Congreso Argentino de Paleontologia y Bioestratigrafia y I Congreso Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires 1:265-277 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83735: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.08.2008, edited by Matthew Oreska

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Taxonomic list

Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Mawsonia sp.1 Mawson and Woodward 1907 coelacanth
FC-DPV 629, skull bones
Osteichthyes
 Ceratodontiformes - Neoceratodontidae
"Ceratodus africanus" = Neoceratodus africanus2
"Ceratodus africanus" = Neoceratodus africanus2 Haug 1905 Queensland lungfish
MGCT-644, right lower tooth plate
Reptilia
 Loricata - Pholidosauridae
Meridiosaurus vallisparadisi n. gen. n. sp. Mones 1980 crocodilian
FC-DPV-2322 (formerly SPV-FHC-27-II-78- 1) - holotype (anterior part of rostrum, mandible fragments, one osteoderm, and unidentifiable fragments)
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Torvosaurus sp.3 Galton and Jensen 1979 tetanuran theropod
MGCT-142