northwest of Lago Colhué Huapí: Maastrichtian, Argentina
collected by A. Tapia 1917

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Notoceratops bonarelli n. gen., n. sp. Tapia 1919
1 specimen
DNM (lost)
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut County:Colhué Huapí
Coordinates: 45.6° South, 68.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° South, 57.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chubut Formation:Lago Colhué Huapi
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "dinosaur layer" below the "upper marine Senonian", possibly Laguna Palacios Fm (ref 16547). Originally described as "...sediments that represent the Piso Pehuenche of the Guaranitic Formation." - this is an old (Ameghino) term for Upper Cretaceous layers.

Maastrichtian part of the Lago Colhué Huapi Formation according to Ibiricu et al. (2020)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:A. Tapia Collection dates:1917
Metadata
Also known as:Notoceratops type
Database number:46148
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-01-05 12:54:59 Last modified:2021-12-10 15:07:30
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-05 12:54:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

36628.ETE A. Tapia. 1919. Una mandibula de Dinosaurioa procedente de Patagonia [A dinosaur mandible from Patagonia]. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 4:369-370 [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]
55148 J. F. Bonaparte. 1979. Faunas y paleobiogografia de los tetrápodos mesozoicos de América del Sur [Faunas and paleobiogeography of the Mesozoic tetrapods of South America]. Ameghiniana 16(3–4):217-238 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63573 J. F. Bonaparte. 1984. I dinosauri dell’Argentina [. In G. M. Ronzoni, M. L. Greggio, & T. B. Guarinoni (eds.), Sulle Orme dei Dinosauri 125-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
12314ETE R. S. Lull. 1933. A revision of the Ceratopsia or horned dinosaurs. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 3(3):1-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
50876 T. H. Rich, B. P. Kear, R. Sinclair, B. Chinnery, K. Carpenter, M. L. McHugh, and P. Vickers-Rich. 2014. Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei Rich & Vickers-Rich, 2003 is an Australian Early Cretaceous ceratopsian. Alcheringa 38(4):456-479 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]