Las Jicoteas (lower horizon) (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Also known as El Carricito, Ocampo

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (28.9° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 76.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aguja Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• correlated to upper member of Aguja Fm in nearby Big Bend, TX

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; green, yellow claystone

• "system was deltaic with a narrow prodelta seam with marshes, oxbows, and near shore lagoons with sandy or silty bars"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: H. E. Rivera-Sylva, J. R. Guzman-Gutiérrez, F. R. Palomino- Sánchez, J. López-Espinosa, and I. Peña-Oviedo. 2009. Primer reporte del género Edmontonia (Thyreophora: Nodosauridae) para México [First report of the genus Edmontonia (Thyreophora: Nodosauridae) for Mexico]. XI Congreso Nacional de Paleontología 62 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99139: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.10.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet.2
Nodosauridae indet.2 Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
CPC 273; "Specimen C"; osteoderms and postcrania
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Saurolophinae indet.1
Saurolophinae indet.1 Brown 1914 hadrosaurid
"probably Kritosaurus"
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet.
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
CPC-320
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet.2
Crocodylia indet.2 crocodilian
CPC-319
 Crocodylia -
cf. Deinosuchus sp.2
cf. Deinosuchus sp.2 Holland 1909 crocodilian
CPC-318
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
CPC-316
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baenidae indet.2
Baenidae indet.2 Cope 1882 turtle
CPC-317
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet.
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar
CPC-315
1Ramírez-Velasco and Hernández-Rivera 2015; 2Rivera-Sylva et al. 2009