Islas Malvinas (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Also known as Lapampasaurus cholinoi locality

Where: La Pampa, Argentina (38.0° S, 67.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° S, 53.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Allen Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• lower part of Allen Formaiton

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; medium-grained, gray, yellow sandstone

• fluvial deposition
• medium-grained sandstones, grayish-yellow color

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1991

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: B. J. González-Riga and S. Casadío. 2000. Primer registro de Dinosauria (Ornithischia, Hadrosauridae) en la provincia de La Pampa (Argentina) y sus implicancias paleobiogeográficas. Ameghiniana 37(3):341-351 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48829: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.03.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
tree trunks
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Lapampasaurus cholinoi n. gen. n. sp.
Lapampasaurus cholinoi n. gen. n. sp. Coria et al. 2012 hadrosaurid
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