Also known as MEGA MATEO
Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (50.5° S, 72.6° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° S, 62.4° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chorrillo Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• middle third of the Chorrillo Formation
•The age of this locality has been revised in Moyano-Paz et al., 2022.
•The Chorrillo Formation in Argentina is correlated to the nearby and coeval Dorotea Formation in Chile.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green claystone
Size class: macrofossils
• Megaraptoridae indet. vertebrae
Collected by LACEV group in 11/03/2024
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 234525: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 18.04.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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