Villa El Chocón, 5 km southwest: Early/Lower Cenomanian, Argentina
collected by Gazzera 1988

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelidae
de la Fuente et al. 2006
MMCH-PV 50, 51, 52: three partial shells; recovered two meters from the bottom of the section
Reptilia
Araripesuchus patagonicus n. sp. Ortega et al. 2000
MUCPV 269 - holotype (Anterior half of an articulated individual with skull and mandibles lacking the most anterior portion of the rostrum. The specimen exposes the precaudal dorsal armor, and bones of both shoulder girdles [scapulae] and forelimbs [humeri, radius and ulnae)]); paratypes: MUCPV 267 (anterior half of an articulated individual preserving an almost complete skull and attached mandibles); MUCPV 268 (postcranial articulated elements); MUCPV268b (distal portion of tibia and fibula); MUCPV 270 (distal portion of a left femur in articulation with the tibia and fibula); MUCPV 283 (an isolated anterior portion of a rostrum comprising the premaxillae and anterior tip of the maxillae, nasals and dentaries)
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Neuquén
Coordinates: 39.1° South, 68.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.2° South, 44.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Cenomanian
Age range of interval:99.60000 - 93.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Neuquén Formation:Candeleros
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower section of Candeleros Fm., Río Limay Subgroup
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,medium,dolomitic,intraclastic sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Ferruginous sandstone matrix. The rock is a medium-to fine-grained sandstone with pelitic intraclasts in tabular bodies
Environment:"floodplain"
Geology comments: Sedimentological studies of Recent lake Ezequiel Ramos Mexia show that the area is a depositional fluvial environment crossed by an association of shallow water bodies, some of them relatively wide, subjected to a regime of sporadic seasonal flooding. The climate was temperate with alternate rainy and dry periods
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Gazzera Collection dates:1988
Metadata
Also known as:Araripesuchus patagonicus type locality
Database number:114528
Authorizer:P. Mannion, E. Vlachos Enterer:P. Mannion, E. Vlachos
Modifier:E. Vlachos
Created:2011-08-16 03:01:45 Last modified:2020-06-22 20:56:31
Access level:the public Released:2011-08-16 03:01:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

37111. F. Ortega, Z. Gasparini, A. D. Buscaloni and J. O. Calvo. 2000. A new species of Araripesuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(1):57-76 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

50104 C. R. A. Candeiro and A. G. Martinelli. 2006. A review of paleogeographical and chronostratigraphical distribution of mesoeucrocodylian species from the upper Cretaceous beds from Bauru (Brazil) and Neuquen (Argentina) groups, Southern South America. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 22:116-129 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
64431 M. S. de la Fuente, J. Sterli, L. M. Perez, J. I. Canale, A. Haluza and A. Otero. 2006. Diferentes estadios ontogeneticos en Chelidae (Testudines: Pleurodira) de la Formacion Candeleros (Cretacico Superior) de "El Chocon", provincia de Neuquen, Argentina. Ameghiniana 43(4):33-33 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]