Also known as Dolichochampsa minima type locality
Where: Salta, Argentina (25.4° S, 66.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 52.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yacoraite Formation (Salta Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Upper part of formation, Balbuena Subgroup; lower part of the Los Berthos Complex
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; red, muddy sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MLP
Primary reference: Z. B. d. Gasparini and E. Buffetaut. 1980. Dolichochampsa minima, n. g. n. sp., a representative of a new family of eusuchian crocodiles from the Late Cretaceous of northern Argentina. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1980(5):257-271 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 114766: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 24.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dolichochampsa minima n. gen. n. sp.
Dolichochampsa minima n. gen. n. sp. Gasparini and Buffetaut 1980 crocodilian MLP 73-II-28-16 - type (left dentary); hypodigm: MLP 73-II-28-1-20
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Gasteroclupea branisai Signeux 1964 | |