Loanco (Cretaceous to of Chile)

Where: Chile (35.6° S, 72.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° S, 57.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Coleccion Paleontologia de Vertebrados, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile

Primary reference: M. E. Suarez and R. A. Otero. 2008. Nuevos hallazgos de vertebrados marinos en el Campaniano-Maastrichtiano de Loanco, VII Región. Actas del I Simposio Paleontología en Chile. Santiago 78-82 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190521: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 10.12.2017, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosauria indet.2
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet.
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
 Testudines -
Testudines (aff. Chelonioidea) indet.1
Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Sclerorhynchidae indet., Biropristis landbecki
Sclerorhynchidae indet. Capetta 1974 ray
Biropristis landbecki Suárez and Cappetta 2004 ray
 Echinorhiniformes - Echinorhinidae
cf. Echinorhinus sp.
 Squaliformes - Squalidae
Centrophoroides sp.
Centrophoroides sp. Davis 1887 dogfish shark
1Otero 2015; 2Otero et al. 2015