Fraustro (BENC) (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Also known as Ramos Arizpe

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (25.9° N, 101.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 75.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• formation dated to 72.5 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine deltaic; gray mudstone and sandstone

• "deltaic lake and bay deposits..interrupted by [channels]"
• "a gray mudstone-sandstone sequence" with no details of actual site given, also "lenticular ledge-forming, channel-fill sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. I. Serrano-Brañas, R. Hernández-Rivera, E. Torres-Rodríguez and B. Espinosa Chávez. 2006. A natural hadrosaurid endocast from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Coahuila, Mexico. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:317-321 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76743: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.11.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Saurolophinae indet.
Saurolophinae indet. Brown 1914 hadrosaurid
BENC 4/1-0001-1