Sierra del Portezuelo (non-specified) (Cretaceous to of Argentina)

Where: Neuquén, Argentina (38.9° S, 69.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° S, 48.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Portezuelo Formation (Neuquén Group), Late/Upper Turonian to Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 85.8 Ma)

• presumably still corresponds to the Portezuelo Fm. but could be Los Bastos or Sierra Barrosa

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dr. Fernando Novas and team in 1990 to 1998

Collection methods: mechanical,

• Museo Municipal “Carmen Funes” of Plaza Huincul MCF-PVPH collection

Primary reference: F. E. Novas, M. D. Ezcurra, and F. L. Agnolín. 2006. Humerus of a basal abelisauroid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 8(1):63-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75050: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.09.2007, edited by Roger Benson and Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Abelisauroidea indet. Bonaparte 1991 ceratosaur
MCF-PVPH 53
 Testudines -
Portezueloemys patagonica n. gen. n. sp.3
Portezueloemys patagonica n. gen. n. sp.3 de la Fuente 2003 sideneck turtle
Holotype, MCF-PVPH-338: A skull and partial carapace and plastron; MCF-PVPH-339: A nearly complete plastron
 Testudines - Chelidae
Chelidae indet.2 Gray 1825 sideneck turtle
Chelidae primitifs indetermines
Prochelidella portezuelae n. sp.3 de la Fuente 2003 sideneck turtle
MCF-PVPH- 161. Anterior margin of the carapace and nearly complete plastron, left atlantal arch, and other five cervical vertebrae (third or fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth), both pectoral girdles, left and right humeri and medio-distal extremities of the femora
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae
Chaoceratodus portezuelensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Apesteguia et al. 2007 lungfish
MCF-PVPH-373 (holotype), left upper tooth plate