CHILE
CONCEPCION PROVINCE
CLIFF AT WEST END OF BAHIA SAN VICENTE
QUIRIQUINA FORMATION
MAASTRICHTIAN STAGE
SENONIAN SUBEPOCH
UPPER GULF EPOCH
LATE CRETACEOUS
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: AVES LINNAEUS, 1758
AVEBREVICAUDA PAUL, 2001
SUBCLASS: CARINATE MERREM, 1813
INFRACLASS: NEORNITHES GADOW, 1893
PARVCLASS: NEOGNATHAE PYCRAFT 1900
ORDER: GAVIIFORMES WETMORE & MILLER, 1926
Family: GAVIIDAE Allen, 1897
*Neogaeornis wetzeli
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CHILE
CONCEPCION PROVINCE
SAN VINCENTE
MAASTRICHTIAN STAGE
UPPERMOST SENONIAN SUBEPOCH
UPPER UPPER GULF EPOCH
LATE CRETACEOUS
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945
SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860
GRANDORDER: EOSAUROPTERYGIA emend RIEPPEL, 1994
ORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835
Incertae sedis
Gen. sp. indet.
SUBORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835
INFRAORDER: PLESIOSAUROMORPHA NOVA
EUPLESIOSAURIA O’KEEFE, 2001
Superfamily: CRYPTOCLEIDOIDEA Williston, 1925
TRICLEDIA O’KEEFE , 2001
Family: CIMOLIASAURIDAE Delair, 1959
Cimoliasaurus andium
INFRAORDER: PLIOSAUROMORPHA NOVA
Superfamily: PLIOSAUROIDEA Seeley, 1874
Family: PLIOSAURIDAE Seeley, 1874
Incertae sedis
non Pliosaurus, P. chilensis
= Cimolisaurus chilensis
= Plesiosaurus andium
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CENTRAL CHILE
APPROXIMATELY 400 KM SOUTH FO SANTIAGO
25 KM N OF CONCEPCION
BIOBIO REGION
NEAR THE VILLAGE OF COCHOLGUE, A COASTAL HAMLET
QUIRIQUINA FORMATION
CAMPANIAN-MAASTRICHTIAN STAGE
SENONIAN SUBEPOCH
UPPER GULF EPOCH
LATE CRETACEOUS
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: CHELONOMORPHA KUHN, 1960
SUPERCOHORT: TESTUDINES LINNAEUS, 1758
COHORT: CASICHELYDIA emend GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988
MAGNORDER: CRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988
SUPERORDER: SELMACRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY, HUTCHISON, JENKINS & MEEKR, 1987
GRANDORDER: DAIOCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988
MICRORDER: CENTROCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988
ORDER: POLYCRPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988
SUBORDER: PROCOELOCRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988
INFRAORDER: CHELONOIDEA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988
Superfamily: EUCHELONIOIDEA Gaffney & Meylan, 1988
Family: CHELONIIDAE Oppel, 1811
Incertae sedis
Euclastes sp
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