Huanimán [La Paloma Mb.] (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.1° S, 68.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.9° S, 35.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Puesto La Paloma Member (Cerro Barcino Formation), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• Ages are found Krause et al. 2020 and Carballido et al. 2017. The contact zones between Puesto La Paloma and Cerros Castaño is approximately Aptian-Early Albian at ~118.5-110.8 Ma.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dune; lithology not reported

• The La Paloma Member is thought to have been deposited in an arid environment dominated by pyroclastic deposits with intercalated dune sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Apesteguia and J. L. Carballido. 2014. A new eilenodontine (Lepidosauria, Sphenodontidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of central Patagonia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(2):303-317 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 154712: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 04.03.2014, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Eosuchia - Sphenodontidae
"Priosphenodon minimus" = Kaikaifilusaurus minimus
"Priosphenodon minimus" = Kaikaifilusaurus minimus Apesteguia and Carballido 2014 lepidosaur
MPEF-PV 3092, composed of around 20 partial bones from Huanim´an Hill. They include partial jaws, maxillae, and palatines
 Testudines - Chelidae
cf. Prochelidella sp.
cf. Prochelidella sp. Lapparent de Broin and de la Fuente 2001 sideneck turtle