SP-1, Saurópodo sector (eastern flank of Río de Las Chinas Valley) (Cretaceous of Chile)

Where: Última Esperanza, Chile (50.7° S, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 53.1° S, 59.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dorotea Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, medium sandstone

• fine to medium-grained sandstone level with trough cross-bedding

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2015-2019

Primary reference: J. Alarcón-Muñoz, S. Soto-Acuña, L. M. E. Manríquez, R. A. Fernández, D. Bajor, J. P. Guevara, F. Suazo Lara, M. A. Leppe, and A. O. Vargas. 2020. Freshwater turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira) in the Upper Cretaceous of Chilean Patagonia. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 102:102652 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210129: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Salientia - Pipidae
Kuruleufenia sp.
Kuruleufenia sp. Gómez 2016 clawed frog
 Salientia - Calyptocephalellidae
Calyptocephalellidae indet.
Calyptocephalellidae indet. Reig 1960 frog
CPAP 5878-5879 (distal end of humeri)
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
 Testudines - Chelidae
cf. Yaminuechelys sp.
cf. Yaminuechelys sp. de la Fuente et al. 2001 sideneck turtle
CPAP 3040a-c and 5943