Bermúdez, Drable-Palmitas (Cretaceous of Uruguay)

Also known as Arroyo La Lancha, Arroyo Maciel, Corralito, Mones Loc. 20, Drabble, La Laucha

Where: Soriano, Uruguay (33.9° S, 57.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 44.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Del Palacio Member (Asencio Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• "upper Senonian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown sandstone

• light-brown sandstone, with rounded quartz, pale cement, and chalcedony

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. C. Berro in 1927

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: F. v. Huene. 1929. Terrestrische Oberkreide in Uruguay [The terrestrial Upper Cretaceous in Uruguay]. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie Abteilung B 1929:107-112 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59147: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.03.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.1 Marsh 1878 sauropod
Distal end of a humerus, half of a radius, and a rib fragment (MMAB specimens)
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet.2 Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
MMAB 250, anterior caudal, proximal L tibia, other fragments
 Saurischia - Saltasauridae
"Titanosaurus australis" = Neuquensaurus australis
"Titanosaurus australis" = Neuquensaurus australis Lydekker 1893 saltasaurine
 Saurischia -
Antarctosaurus wichmannianus Huene 1927 sauropod