Cerro de los Leones, level 2 (Cretaceous of Argentina)

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (39.6° S, 69.4° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° S, 39.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cullín Grande Member (Lohan Cura Formation), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• The Cullín Grande Member is the upper part of the Lohan Cura Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; mudstone and fine-grained sandstone

• "The sedimentary sequence of the Lohan Cura Formation was developed in a retro-arc foreland stage that began in the Early Albian as the result of Gondwanan break-up" "Thick sequence of meandering fluvial deposits...levels 2 and 3 are interpreted as flood basin deposits"
• "Thick variegated succession of mudstones with thin intercalations of fine-grained sandstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. F. Bonaparte in 1997-2004

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte, B. J. González Riga, and S. Apesteguía. 2006. Ligabuesaurus leanzai gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria, Sauropoda), a new titanosaur from the Lohan Cura Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) of Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 27:364-376 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51939: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.07.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
 Saurischia -
Ligabuesaurus leanzai n. gen. n. sp.
Ligabuesaurus leanzai n. gen. n. sp. Bonaparte et al. 2006 sauropod