Where: Neuquén, Argentina (36.9° S, 70.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° S, 50.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Plottier Formation (Neuquén Group), Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 83.5 Ma)

• Río Neuquén Subgroup, pre-Maastrichtian Senonian but also post-Cenomanian and probably pre-Campanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coarse-grained, brown, gray, red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Roth & Schiller in 1921-1923; reposited in the MLP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. F. Bonaparte and Z. B. Gasparini. 1979. Los sauropodos de los grupos Neuquén y Chubut, y sus relaciones cronologicas [The sauropods of the Neuquén and Chubut Groups, and their chronological relationships]. Actas del VII Congreso Geológico Argentino, Neuquén 2:393-406 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 51572: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 08.06.2005, edited by Roger Benson

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