Where: Río Negro, Argentina (38.8° S, 68.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° S, 53.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Allen Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• Middle Member of Allen Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone and shale
Size class: macrofossils
• Four cervical vertebrae, two dorsal vertebrae, a fragment of scapula?, a tarsal or carpal elementand four phalanges.
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. P. O'Gorman, Z. Gasparini, and L. Salgado. 2013. Postcranial morphology of Aristonectes (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia and Antarctica. Antarctic Science 25(1):71-82 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/F. Aspromonte]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140325: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.03.2013, edited by Jonathan Tennant
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Taxonomic list
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Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur MUC Pv 131 (juvenile skeleton comprising four cervical vertebrae, two dorsal vertebrae, a fragment of scapula?, tarsal or carpal element and four phalanges)
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