La Colonia (LC 151/23) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.0° S, 67.5° W: paleocoordinates 45.2° S, 56.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: La Colonia Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

• Turtle plates, fish vertebra, phalanx and bones fragments of Hadrosauridae

Collected by Franco Aspromonte in 2/20/2023; reposited in the MEF

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. Pol, E. Vlachos, and F. Aspromonte. 2023. The end of the dinosaur era in Patagonia (NatGeo Project). [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231521: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 23.08.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Chelidae
cf. Yaminuechelys indet. de la Fuente et al. 2001 sideneck turtle
Scapula/coracoid and nail phalanx
 Testudinata -
Meiolaniformes indet. Sterli and de la Fuente 2013 turtle
Plates
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar
Dermal scale
 Teleostei -