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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Aristonectinae indet. elasmosaur SGO.PV.6569, half of a small cervical centrum of a juvenile individual
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