Also known as Estancia "Anita" locality 3, MAIP GPS

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (50.5° S, 72.6° W: paleocoordinates 52.5° S, 62.4° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chorrillo Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• midle third of the Chorrillo Formation

•The age of this locality has been revised in Moyano-Paz et al., 2022.

•The Chorrillo Formation in Argentina is correlated to the nearby and coeval Dorotea Formation in Chile.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2019

• discovered by General F. Nullo

Primary reference: F. E. Novas, F. L. Agnolin, S. Rozadilla, A. M. Aranciaga-Rolando, F. Brisson-Egli, M. J. Motta, M. Cerroni, M. D. Ezcurra, A. G. Martinelli, J. S. D’Angelo, and G. Alvarez-Herrera. 2019. Paleontological discoveries in the Chorrillo Formation (upper Campanian-lower Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous), Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie 21(2):217-293 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206968: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.12.2019, edited by Grace Varnham

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