Also known as Plesiosaur locality Sample 9 (Muestra 9)
Where: Río Negro, Argentina (40.0° S, 66.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° S, 52.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Allen Formation (Malargüe Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine deltaic; medium-grained, silty sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
• Partial postcranial skeleton (Polycotylidae indet.)
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
• UNC-PMIC, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, colección de Paleontología-Microfósiles
•MML, Museo Municipal Lamarque, Río Negro province, Argentina
Primary reference: L. Salgado, A. Parras, and Z. Gasparini. 2007. Un plesiosaurio de cuello corto (Plesiosauroidea, Polycotylidae) del Cretácico Superior del norte de Patagonia. Ameghiniana 44(2):349-358 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/F. Aspromonte]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 141581: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 29.03.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda | |
Neuquenocypris nahuelniyuensis Musacchio 1989 ostracod | |
Reptilia | |
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