HB Quarry, Rincón Colorado (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Also known as Rincon Colorado

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)

• middle facies of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• no details given

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2002

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 24261: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.08.2002, edited by Monica Arakaki, Jason Cassara, Patricia Holroyd and Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Tricostatocarpon silvapinedae n. gen. n. sp.4, Striatornata sanantoniensis4
Tricostatocarpon silvapinedae n. gen. n. sp.4
Fruits
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet.
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholididae indet.
Goniopholididae indet. Cope 1875 crocodilian
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Saurolophinae indet.3
Saurolophinae indet.3 Brown 1914 hadrosaurid
several individuals
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet.3, Centrosaurinae indet.2
Ceratopsidae indet.3 Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
IGM-MG
Centrosaurinae indet.2 Lambe 1915 ceratopsid
CPC 279
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
 Testudinata -
Compsemys sp.1
Compsemys sp.1 Leidy 1856 turtle
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp.1
Adocus sp.1 Cope 1868 turtle
 Testudines - Kinosternoidea
cf. Hoplochelys sp.
cf. Hoplochelys sp. Hay 1908 mud turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydridae indet.1
Chelydridae indet.1 Swainson 1839 turtle
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet.
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
cf. Melvius sp.
cf. Melvius sp. Bryant 1987 bowfin
1Brinkman and Rodríguez de la Rosa 2006; 2Loewen et al. 2010; 3Ramírez-Velasco and Hernández-Rivera 2015; 4Rodriguez-de la Rosa and Cevallos-Ferriz 1994