Agua de la Mula (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Also known as Agua de Mula

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (25.5° N, 101.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Difunta Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• no details given

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• no details given

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: no details given

Primary reference: R. A. Rodriguez-de la Rosa and S. R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz. 1998. Vertebrates of the El Pelillal locality (Campanian, Cerro del Pueblo Formation), southeastern Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(4):751-764 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24259: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.08.2002, edited by Monica Arakaki, Jason Cassara and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Compsemys victa Leidy 1856 turtle
 Testudines - Kinosternoidea
cf. Hoplochelys sp. Hay 1908 mud turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1918 hadrosaurine
long bone fragments
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
BENC 21/2-0001 to 0005, 0007, 0009, 0012 to 0015
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet.1 Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
BENC 21/2-0006, 0010, 0011
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar