Where: Concepción, Chile (36.6° S, 73.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° S, 61.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Quiriquina Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• "From Quiriquina Island, Concepción, central–southern Chile, Quiriquina Formation, upper Campanian–lower Maastrichtian" (Gasparini et al 2003, p. 105)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Santiago, Chile)
Primary reference: R. M. Casamiquela. 1969. La presencia en Chile de Aristonectes Cabrera (Plesiosauria), del Maestrichtense del Chubut, Argentina. Actas de las cuartas jornadas geologicas Argentinas 1:199-213 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 118945: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 19.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Aristonectes sp. Cabrera 1941 elasmosaur SGO.PV.82 (pebble enclosing a fragment of rostrum and mandible in occlusion)
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