La Colonia (LC 73/23) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as Fran 246

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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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

• Turtle plates, dental plate of Dipnoi and a coprolite

Preservation: coprolite

Collected by Franco Aspromonte in 2/17/2023; reposited in the MEF

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• All the fossil were collected on the surface of a area 10x10 meters

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 231417: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 18.08.2023

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod
Fragmented lobster
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Teleostei indet.
Vertebra and bones fragments
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi -
Dipnoi indet. lungfish
Dental plate
Reptilia
 Testudines - Chelidae
Chelidae indet. Gray 1825 sideneck turtle
Plates
cf. Yaminuechelys indet. de la Fuente et al. 2001 sideneck turtle
Plates