Also known as Traytenia type locality

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (38.4° S, 68.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° S, 49.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Neuquén Group), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, red siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Rosales in 2006

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• In 2006, technician Diego Rosales of the Universidad Nacional del Comahue discovered a partial postcranial skeleton of a large theropod in an exposure of the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Bajo de la Carpa Formation at a site known as Tratayén in Neuquén Province, northwestern Patagonia, Argentina

Primary reference: F. E. Novas, F. L. Agnolín, M. D. Ezcurra, J. Porfiri, and J. I. Canale. 2013. Evolution of the carnivorous dinosaurs during the Cretaceous: The evidence from Patagonia. Cretaceous Research 45:174-215 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196207: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 09.09.2018, edited by Matthew Carrano

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