Where: Mendoza, Argentina (36.2° S, 69.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° S, 54.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Loncoche Formation (Malargüe Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; siltstone and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

• One of this is an undescribed incomplete individual (specimen UNCUYO-LD uncatalogued) represented by disarticulated plates and appendicular bones. The other is the holotype of the new taxon here described (specimen MACN Pv M2), which is represented by cranial remains, appendicular bones and articulated plates of the carapace and plastron.

Reposited in the MACN

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. S. de la Fuente, I. Maniel, J. M. Janello, J. Sterli, B. Gonzalez Riga and F. Novas. 2017. A new large panchelid turtle (Pleurodira) from the Loncoche Formation (upper Campanian-lower Maastrichtian) of the Mendoza Province (Argentina): Morphological, osteohistological studies, and a preliminary phylogenetic analysis. Cretaceous Research 69:147-168 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182521: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 03.11.2016

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