Cerro Fortaleza (CF 23-52) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as 258

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (49.9° S, 72.1° W: paleocoordinates 52.5° S, 58.7° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Cerro Fortaleza Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• The Cerro Fortaleza Formation is up to 365 m thick dominantly composed of whitish and grayish siliciclastic mudstones interbedding with lenticular conglomerates and coarse-grained sandstones displaying through cross-bedding (Varela et al., 2012; Varela, 2015).

Size class: macrofossils

• Sauropoda fragmented vertebra

Collected by A. Paulina-Carabajal and F. Irazoqui in 12/11/2023

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 234486: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 15.04.2024

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Sauropoda indet.
Sauropoda indet.
Fragmented vertebra