page_title: Ernesto Bachmann Paleontological Museum
section_title: Paleontology
hierarchical_section_title: Ernesto Bachmann Paleontological Museum / Paleontology / Exhibitions / Paleontology
caption_attribution_description: English: The Natural Science Museum at El Chocón, in the northwestern Argentine Patagonia (the Comahue region). Fossil of Giganotosaurus carolinii
context_page_description: The Ernesto Bachmann Paleontological Museum, officially named Archaeological, Paleontological and Historical Municipal Museum in Villa El Chocón, Neuquén Province, Argentina, is a municipal museum dedicated to the paleontology, archaeology and history of Villa El Chocón and its surroundings.
context_section_description: The paleontological exhibition has reconstructions and original fossils of different extinct species. It is worth mentioning that there is a reconstruction mounted on the articulated skeleton, and original remains of Giganotosaurus carolinii which is the most famous dinosaur in the country. Mounted reconstructions of Neuquensaurus australis and Amargasaurus cazaui, and a cast of the head and neck of Bajadasaurus pronuspinax are also exhibited. Besides, there are a replica of a vertebra of Argentinosaurus huinculensis and the original femur of an unspecified titanosaur. Moreover, there is a replica of the mounted skeleton of  Carnotaurus sastrei and Skorpiovenator bustingorryi. This last species is exhibited in the same way as it was found at the excavation site. Apart from the species Carnotaurus, there are original caudal and dorsal vertebrae, metarcapus and maxilla of the sauropod Choconsaurus baileywillisi, whose specific name comes from the locality where it was found. In addition to dinosaurs, original materials of Prochelidella sp., Kaikaifilusaurus calvoi and Avitabatrachus uliana, and the replica of Araripesuchus patagonicus are exhibited.
caption: Remains of Giganotosaurus carolinii exhibited at Ernesto Bachmann Museum
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