Where: Chile (36.7° S, 73.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° S, 60.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Quiriquina Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: Z. Gasparini and L. Biro-Bagoczky. 1986. Osteopygis sp. (Reptilia, Testudines, Toxochelyidae) toruga fosil de la Formacion Quiriquina, Cretacico Superior, sur de Chile. Revista Geologica de Chile 27:85-90 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36948: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 19.02.2004, edited by Mark Uhen and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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