Where: Valparaíso, Chile (33.4° S, 71.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° S, 59.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quiriquina Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• From the lower part of the Quiriquina Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

• two 'rostrum' fragments (e.g., premaxillae) and a predentary

Collected by Mario E. Suarez; reposited in the SGOPV

• The Algarrobo locality was discovered in 1866 by Landbeck, who made the first collection of fossil material from this site for the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural of Chile in Santiago.

Primary reference: P. M. Brito and M. E. Suarez. 2003. Late Cretaceous Belonostomus (Pisces, Actinopterygii, Aspidorhynchidae) from Algarrobo, Chile, with comments on aspidorhynchid paleodistribution in South America. Revista Geológica de Chile 30(1):117-127 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 124311: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 11.02.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

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