Trapalcó, locality B: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Argentina
collected by Hector Cabaza and Museo Municipal de Lamarque 1998-2001
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Plioplatecarpus sp.
Dollo 1882
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Fernández et al. 2008 | 1 individual | ||||||||
MML-PV7, Two cervical, ten dorsal, and twelve caudal vertebrae, one tooth and fragments of a mandible | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Elasmosauridae
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cf. Mauisaurus sp.
Hector 1874
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1 specimen | |||||||||
MML-PV4 (one incomplete cervical vertebra, 13 incomplete dorsals, three sacrals, 24 caudals, two ilia and the left anterior paddle [humerus, radius, ulna, proximal and distal carpals and phalanges) | ||||||||||
= Elasmosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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Gasparini et al. 2007 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Río Negro |
Coordinates: | 39.9° South, 66.6° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.3° South, 54.7° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Mudstone | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Geology comments: shallow inner-platform environment |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | Hector Cabaza and Museo Municipal de Lamarque | Collection dates: | 1998-2001 |
Collection method comments: MML, Museo Municipal de Lamarque, Rio Negro, Argentina |
Metadata
Database number: | 140998 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | P. Mannion, F. Aspromonte |
Modifier: | F. Aspromonte | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2013-03-20 03:08:30 | Last modified: | 2024-01-08 10:41:01 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-03-20 03:08:30 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
45789. | Z. Gasparini, L. Salgado, and S. Casadio. 2003. Maastrichtian plesiosaurs from northern Patagonia. Cretaceous Research 240:157-170 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
71968 | M. Fernández, J. Martin, and S. Casadío. 2008. Mosasaurs (Reptilia) from the late Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of northern Patagonia (Río Negro, Argentina). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 25(2):176-186 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/F. Aspromonte] | |
46152 | Z. Gasparini, L. Salgado, and A. Parras. 2007. Late Cretaceous plesiosaurs from northern Patagonia, Argentina. Geological Journal 42:185-202 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/F. Aspromonte] |