La Colonia (LC 62/23) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as PLACA 1

Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.0° S, 67.5° W: paleocoordinates 45.2° S, 55.9° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: La Colonia Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

• Fragmented turtle plates and others bones

Collected by Nadia Haidr in 2/16/2023; reposited in the MEF

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. Pol, E. Vlachos, and F. Aspromonte. 2023. The end of the dinosaur era in Patagonia (NatGeo Project). [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231405: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 18.08.2023

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
Vertebra and bones fragments
 Testudines - Chelidae
Chelidae indet. Gray 1825 sideneck turtle
Plates
cf. Yaminuechelys indet. de la Fuente et al. 2001 sideneck turtle
Plates