La Anita (05/24) (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Also known as GPS Dientes MEGA

Where: Santa Cruz, Argentina (50.5° S, 72.5° 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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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

• "grey and greenish grey clays, with dark and purple bands alternating with generally friable beds."

Size class: macrofossils

• Megaraptoridae teeth

Collected by LACEV group in 10-12/03/2024

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 234527: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 18.04.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
Bones fragments
 Theropoda - Megaraptoridae
Megaraptoridae indet.
Megaraptoridae indet. Novas et al. 2013 coelurosaur
Teeth