Also known as Plesiosaur locality
Where: Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 67.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: López de Bertodano Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Seymour (Marambio) Island,Antarctica. Higher, ‘Rotularia’ units of the López
•de Bertodano Formation, upper Maastrichtian (Olivero, 2012).
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, concretionary, sandy siltstone and lithified carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
• TTU P 9220: part of cervical, dorsal, sacral and caudal vertebrae, coracoid, pelvis and associated gastroliths.
Preservation: concretion
Collected in 1981-1985
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
• TTU P , Museum of Texas Tech University, Texas, USA;
Primary reference: S. Chatterjee and B. J. Small. 1989. New plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica. Origin and Evolution of the Antarctic Biota, Geological Society Special Publication 47:197-215 [R. O'Keefe/R. O'Keefe/F. Aspromonte]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 232354: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 09.11.2023
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Taxonomic list
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Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur TTU P 9220; part of cervical, dorsal, sacral and caudal vertebrae, coracoid, pelvis and associated gastroliths
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