Where: Río Negro, Argentina (38.8° S, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.8° S, 52.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Anacleto Formation (Neuquén Group), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Río Colorado subgroup
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; concretionary, green, red, carbonaceous mudstone and medium-grained, coarse, white, yellow, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1992
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: L. Salgado, R. A. Coria, and S. E. Heredia. 1996. Nuevos materiales de ornitópodos (Ornithischia) en la Formación Rio Colorado (Cretácico Superior) de la Provincia de Rio Negro [New materials of ornithopods (Ornithischia) in the Rio Colorado Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Rio Negro province]. Ameghiniana 33(4):471 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52437: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis n. gen. n. sp.
Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis n. gen. n. sp. Coria and Salgado 1996 hypsilophodontid MUCPv-208, 212-218, 225-227
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