Where: Neuquén, Argentina (39.5° S, 70.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° S, 35.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Puesto Antigual Member (La Amarga Formation), Barremian to Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• "lower section" of the La Amarga Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; micaceous, conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. F. Bonaparte, G. Rougier in 1983-1986

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Site discovered by Luis B. Cazau, working with YPF in 1983, then shown to J. F. Bonaparte on the 8a Expedición Paleontológica a la Patagonia in Feb. 1984

Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte. 1986. History of terrestrial Cretaceous vertebrates of Gondwana. Simposio Bioestratigrafía del Paleozoico Inferior: IV Congreso Argentino de Paleontología y Bioestratigrafía, Mendoza, Argentina 2:63-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13333: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 26.02.2002, edited by Jill Wertheim and Jonathan Tennant

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