Tyndall Glacier, Parque Nacional Torres del Paine (Jurassic to of Chile)

Where: Magallanes, Chile (51.1° S, 73.3° W: paleocoordinates 51.3° S, 36.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Zapata Formation, Late/Upper Tithonian to Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 100.5 Ma)

• ?Tithonian, Berriasian to Aptian-Albian age

•The ammonite assemblage indicates that the ichthyosaur-bearing sediment unit is latest Tithonian, Berriasian to Hauterivian in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

• Single slab of turbiditic sandstone that was cut out of an undisturbed, glacier-polished bed of about 15 m2.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Institute of Earth Sciences of Heidelberg University, the StaatlichesMuseum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, and the Instituto Antártico Chileno in 2009

Primary reference: J. Pardo-Pérez, E. Frey, W. Stinnesbeck, M. S. Fernández, L. Rivas, C. Salazar, and M. Leppe. 2012. An ichthyosaurian forefin from the Lower Cretaceous Zapata Formation of southern Chile: implications for morphological variability within Platypterygius. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92:287-294 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132348: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.08.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
Ophthalmosauridae indet. Andrews 1910 ichthyosaur
Platypterygius sp. von Huene 1922 ichthyosaur
CPAP-2011-0019 (complete and almost fully articulated isolated left forefin of an adult)
? Platypterygius hauthali von Huene 1927 ichthyosaur