Las Jicoteas (upper horizon) (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Also known as El Carricito, Ocampo

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (28.9° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 82.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Javelina Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• correlated to Javelina Fm in nearby Big Bend, TX

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; black, green, red, blue claystone

• "system was deltaic with a narrow prodelta seam with marshes, oxbows, and near shore lagoons with sandy or silty bars"
• "clay shows a melange of pale maroons, greens, blue-blacks, and reds"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Rivera-Sylva, E. Frey, F. J. Palomino-Sánchez, J. R. Guzmán-Gutiérrez, and J. A. Oritz-Mendieta. 2009. Preliminary report on a Late Cretaceous vertebrate fossil assemblage in northwestern Coahuila, Mexico. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 61(2):239-244 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99140: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
? Titanosauridae indet.
? Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid