Where: Mendoza, Argentina (32.8° S, 69.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.5° S, 34.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Potrerillos Formation (Uspallata Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Potrerillos Formation, Cuyana Basin, lower Upper

•Triassic (Morel et al. 2002b).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: mesofossils

• "The only known specimens of ?Pholidophorus dentatus, two isolated single scales, each identified as holotype and paratype are presently lost (Cerden˜o 2005, p. 13), and the specimens were never illustrated." López-Arbarello et al. 2010 (p. 263-264)

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: A. López-Arbarello, O. W. R. Rauhut, and E. Cerdeño. 2010. The Triassic fish faunas of the Cuyana Basin, Western Argentina. Palaeontology 53:249-276 [M. Clapham/P. Elliott]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117887: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Phillip Elliott on 28.09.2011, edited by Christina Feng and Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)