Sierra Baguales (Cretaceous of Chile)

Where: Puerto Natales, Chile (50.7° S, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 52.7° S, 62.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dorotea Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2012

Primary reference: R. A. Otero, S. Soto-Acuña, C. Salazar and J. L. OyarzĂșn. 2015. New elasmosaurids (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of the Magallanes Basin, Chilean Patagonia: Evidence of a faunal turnover during the Maastrichtian along the Weddellian Biogeographic Province. Andean Geology 42(2):237-267 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/F. Aspromonte]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208357: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 31.03.2020

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Aristonectinae indet. elasmosaur
SGO.PV.6569, half of a small cervical centrum of a juvenile individual