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
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Megaraptoridae indet.
Novas et al. 2013
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1 specimen | |||||||||
MUCPv 1162 | ||||||||||
= Tratayenia rosalesi n. gen., n. sp.
Porfiri et al. 2018
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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] |