Cerro Matadero, Arriagada Farm (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Salitral Ojo de Agua, Matadero Hill

Where: Río Negro, Argentina (39.5° S, 67.4° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° S, 53.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Allen Formation (Malargüe Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone and mudstone

• sandstones, mudstones and pelites

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: M. A. Rolando, J. A. Garcia Marsà, F. L. Agnolín, M. J. Motta, S. Rozadilla and F. E. Novas. 2022. The sauropod record of Salitral Ojo del Agua: A Upper Cretaceous (Allen Formation) fossiliferous locality from northern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 129:105029:1-25 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231728: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 30.08.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria "indet. 2" Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
morphotype 2 osteoderm, MPCN-PV-803
Titanosauria "indet. 1" Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
morphotype 1 osteoderms, MPCN-PV-804, 805, 806
Menucocelsior arriagadai n. gen. n. sp. Rolando et al. 2022 sauropod
MPCN-PV-798 - holotype
Aeolosaurini indet. Franco-Rosas et al. 2004 sauropod
MPCN-PV-799
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Kelumapusaura machi n. gen. n. sp.
Kelumapusaura machi n. gen. n. sp. Rozadilla et al. 2021 hadrosaurine
MPCN-PV-807 - holotype; paratypes - MPCN-PV-808-814