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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes | |
"Ceratodus africanus" = Neoceratodus africanus2
"Ceratodus africanus" = Neoceratodus africanus2 Haug 1905 Queensland lungfish MGCT-644, right lower tooth plate
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Reptilia | |
Meridiosaurus vallisparadisi n. gen. n. sp.
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)
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