Also known as Salitral de Santa Rosa, El Matuasto, "Cerro Bonaparte", Lamarque
Where: Río Negro, Argentina (40.1° S, 66.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° S, 52.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Allen Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• lower member of formation; possibly equivalent to "egg level 5"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, fine-grained, yellow sandstone and mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1990–1994; reposited in the MACN
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: F. E. Novas, J. I. Canale, and M. P. Isas. 2003. Un terópodo maniraptor del Campaniano–Maastrichtiano del norte patagónico [A maniraptoran theropod from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of the Patagonian north]. Ameghiniana 40(4 (suppl.)):63R [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 49557: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.04.2005, edited by Franco Aspromonte, Philip Mannion and Marc Jones
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes indet.8 Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish MACN-PV RN 1076: eleven complete vertebral centra
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Siluriformes indet.8 catfish MACN-PV RN 1074, four very small incomplete pectoral spines; MACN-PV RN 1084, incomplete pectoral spine lacking its proxinial portion
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Amphibia | |
Kuruleufenia xenopoides n. gen. n. sp.6
Kuruleufenia xenopoides n. gen. n. sp.6 Gómez 2016 clawed frog MACN-PV RN 1064, almost complete sphenethmoid; MACN-PV RN 1065, sphenethmoid
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Calyptocephalellidae indet.12 Reig 1960 frog MACN-PV RN 1067, five incomplete vertebrae; MACN-PV RN 1068, five incomplete angulosplenials; MACN-PV RN 1070, fused radio and ulna
Calyptocephalellidae indet.12 Reig 1960 frog MACN-PV RN 1063, fragment of right maxilla; MACN-PV RN 1066, complete right humerus; MACN-PV RN 1069, twenty three fragments of ornamented cranial hones including incomplete maxillae, and frontoparietals
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Australophis anilioides7 Gómez et al. 2008 southern snake MACN-PV RN 1059: almost complete trunk vertebra
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Madtsoiidae indet.8 Hoffstetter 1961 snake MACN-PV RN 1051-52, MACN-PV RN 1054: isolated trunk vertebrae
Patagoniophis parvus8 Albino 1986 snake MACN-PV RN 1049 and MACN-PV RN 1056: incomplete trunk vertebrae
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Austroraptor cabazai n. gen. n. sp.10
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Bonatitan reigi n. gen. n. sp.8
Bonatitan reigi n. gen. n. sp.8 Martinelli and Forasiepi 2004 saltasaurine MACN-PV RN 821 (holotype); MACN-PV RN 1061
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Chelidae "indet. 1"8 Gray 1825 sideneck turtle MACN-PV RN 1089: isolated fragments of posterior peripheral caparace
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Osteichthyes | |
Atlantoceratodus patagonicus1 Agnolín 2010 lungfish MACN-PV RN 1079, left tooth plate; MACN-PV RN 1080, two tooth plates
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