page_title: Candeleros Formation
section_title: Fossil content
hierarchical_section_title: Candeleros Formation / Fossil content
caption_attribution_description: Life restoration of Giganotosaurus. • The proportions of the illustration are based on skeletal diagrams by palaeontologists Gregory S. Paul (The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, 2010, p. 98) and Scott Hartman[1]. • The dermal spines and skin colouration are speculative.
context_page_description: The Candeleros Formation is a geologic formation that crops out in the Río Negro, Neuquén, and Mendoza provinces of northern Patagonia, Argentina. It is the oldest formation in the Neuquén Group and belongs to the Rio Limay Subgroup. Formerly that subgroup was treated as a formation, and the Candeleros Formation was known as the Candeleros Member.
context_section_description: The Candeleros Formation has a very diverse fossil fauna, including:
  dipnoan fish (including Ceratodus argentinus)
  frogs
  Iguanodonts
  eilenodontine rhynchocephalians (including Priosphenodon avelasi)
  primitive snakes (including Najash rionegrina)
  several turtles (including 2 species of Prochelidella)
  rebbachisaurid sauropods (Limaysaurus, Nopcsaspondylus and Rayososaurus)
  titanosaurian sauropods (including Andesaurus)
  abelisaurid theropods (Ekrixinatosaurus and unnamed form)
  a carcharodontosaurid theropod (Giganotosaurus)
  a dromaeosaurid theropod (Buitreraptor gonzalezorum)
  an alvarezsaurid theropod (Alnashetri)
  a basal coelurosaurian (Bicentenaria)
  cladotherian mammals (including Cronopio dentiacutus)
  ichnofossils of Sousaichnum monettae, Limayichnus major, Bonaparteichnum tali, Bressaniichnus patagonicus, Deferraiichnum mapuchense, Abelichnus astigarragae and Picunichnus benedettoi
caption: Reconstruction of Giganotosaurus carolinii
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