La Colonia (LC 07/24) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.0° S, 67.6° W: paleocoordinates 45.2° S, 56.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

• Turtle plates and possibly a basisphenoid

Preservation: coprolite

Collected by Ramiro Villareal in 2/9/2024; 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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 233607: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 22.02.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Chelidae
cf. Yaminuechelys indet.
cf. Yaminuechelys indet. de la Fuente et al. 2001 sideneck turtle
Plates and some bones fragments
 Testudinata -
Meiolaniformes indet.
Meiolaniformes indet. Sterli and de la Fuente 2013 turtle
Fragmented plates and possibly a basisphenoid