Los Pilares-Tratayén fossil site: Santonian, Argentina
collected by D. Rosales 2006

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Megaraptoridae
Megaraptoridae indet. Novas et al. 2013
1 specimen
MUCPv 1162
    = Tratayenia rosalesi n. gen., n. sp. Porfiri et al. 2018
Porfiri et al. 2018
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Neuquén
Coordinates: 38.4° South, 68.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.0° South, 49.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Santonian
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Neuquén Formation:Bajo de la Carpa
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red lithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:D. Rosales Collection dates:2006
Collection method comments: In 2006, technician Diego Rosales of the Universidad Nacional del Comahue discovered a partial postcranial skeleton of a large theropod in an exposure of the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Bajo de la Carpa Formation at a site known as Tratayén in Neuquén Province, northwestern Patagonia, Argentina
Metadata
Also known as:Traytenia type locality
Database number:196207
Authorizer:G. Lloyd, M. Carrano Enterer:G. Lloyd, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-09-09 05:37:13 Last modified:2022-02-09 21:32:54
Access level:the public Released:2018-09-09 05:37:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

79677. F. E. Novas, F. L. Agnolín, M. D. Ezcurra, J. Porfiri, and J. I. Canale. 2013. Evolution of the carnivorous dinosaurs during the Cretaceous: The evidence from Patagonia. Cretaceous Research 45:174-215 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

66748 J. D. Porfiri, R. D. Juárez Valieri, D. D. D. Santos and M. C. Lamanna. 2018. A new megaraptoran theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation of northwestern Patagonia. Cretaceous Research 89:302-319 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/P. Mannion]