Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.1° S, 68.5° W: paleocoordinates 48.6° S, 40.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cerro Castaño Member (Cerro Barcino Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• Ages are found Krause et al. 2020 and Carballido et al. 2017. The contact zones between Puesto La Paloma and Cerros Castaño is approximately Aptian-Early Albian at ~118.5-110.8 Ma.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; massive, tuffaceous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: E. Argañaraz, G. Grellet-Tinner, L. E. Fiorelli, J. M. Krause, and O. W. M. Rauhut. 2013. Huevos de saurópodos del Aptiano–Albiano, Formación Cerro Barcino (Patagonia, Argentina): un enigma paleoambiental y paleobiológico [Sauropod eggs from the Aptian–Albian, Cerro Barcino Formation (Patagonia, Argentina): a paleoenvironmental and paleobiological enigma]. Ameghiniana 50(2):33-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 219346: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.04.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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