Also known as Tuarangisaurus cabazai type
Where: Río Negro, Argentina (39.8° S, 66.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° S, 54.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Jagüel Formation (Malargüe Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• 5 m below the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary
•Upper part of the Jagüel Formation, Upper Maastrichtian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Hector Cabaza and Museo Municipal de Lamarque in 1998-2001
• MML, Museo Municipal de Lamarque, Rio Negro, Argentina
Primary reference: Z. Gasparini, L. Salgado, and S. Casadio. 2003. Maastrichtian plesiosaurs from northern Patagonia. Cretaceous Research 240:157-170 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140999: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.03.2013, edited by Franco Aspromonte
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Plotosaurini indet. Russell 1967 mosasaur MML-PV2, forty-six vertebrae, two jaw fragments, and three incomplete teeth
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