Ejido El Pelillal: Late/Upper Campanian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Nodosauridae
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Nodosauridae indet.
Marsh 1890
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Ramírez-Velasco and Hernández-Rivera 2015 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
caudal vertebraCPC 275, | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosaurinae indet.
Lambe 1918
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1 specimen | |||||||||
IGM 7709, tooth | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Rodriguez-de la Rosa 1995 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
IGM 7711–7715 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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Rodriguez-de la Rosa 1996 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Troodontidae
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Troodontidae indet.
Gilmore 1924
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1 specimen | |||||||||
IGM 7710, pedal II phalanx | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Pterodactyloidea indet.
Plieninger 1901
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1 element | |||||||||
IGM 7708, proximal ?left tibia | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Goniopholididae
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Goniopholididae indet.
Cope 1875
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3 specimens | |||||||||
IGM 7700, tooth; IGM 7701, sacral; IGM 7702, osteoderm | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Eusuchia indet.
Huxley 1875
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5 specimens | |||||||||
IGM 7703 to 7707 | ||||||||||
Compsemys victa
(Leidy 1856)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Adocidae
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Adocus sp.
Cope 1868
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Brinkman and Rodríguez de la Rosa 2006 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
reidentification of one peripheral referred to Trionychidae in ref. 694 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Kinosternoidea indet.
Hay 1892
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cf. Hoplochelys sp.
Hay 1908
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= Yelmochelys rosarioae
Brinkman et al. 2016
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Brinkman et al. 2016 | |||||||||
site said to be lower Maastrichtian and in the Canon del Tule Fm. | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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cf. Protochelydra sp.
Erickson 1973
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteidae indet.
Cuvier 1825
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Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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cf. Melvius sp.
Bryant 1987
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Coahuila | County: | Ramos Arizpe |
Coordinates: | 26.1° North, 101.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.2° North, 75.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
*Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Senonian |
*International age/stage: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Difunta | Formation: | Cerro del Pueblo |
Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | fluvial-deltaic indet. |
Geology comments: no information on lithology is given at all (!)
suggested to be a "tidal riverine system with a coastline closely situated" or else a "freshwater lacustrine environment close to a small bay" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Disassociated minor elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Ramos Arizpe | ||
Database number: | 24257 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, M. Carrano | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-08-03 15:30:23 | Last modified: | 2022-09-19 10:08:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-08-03 15:30:23 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
694. | 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] |
Secondary references:
59516 | D. Brinkman, M. C. Aguillon-Martinez, J. H. Hutchison and C. M. Brown. 2016. Yelmochelys rosarioae gen. et sp. nov., a stem kinosternid (Testudines; Kinosternidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Coahuila, Mexico. PaleoBios 33:1-20 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion] | |
17867 | D. B. Brinkman and R. A. Rodríguez de la Rosa. 2006. Nonmarine turtles from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Campanian), Coahuila State, 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 35:229-233 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Carrano] | |
82052 | G. Carbot-Chanona. 2014. Overview of Mesozoic crocodyliforms from Mexico. In H. E. Rivera-Sylva, K. Carpenter, & E. Frey (eds.), Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico 110-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
28255 | ETE | I. Ferrusquía-Villafranca, V. M. Bravo-Cuevas, and E. Jiménez-Hidalgo. 2007. The Xochixtlapilco dinosaur ichnofauna, Middle Jurassic of Oaxaca, southeastern Mexico: description and paleontologic significance. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 515:1-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
55641 | A. A. Ramírez-Velasco, R. Hernández-Rivera, and R. Servin-Pichardo. 2014. The hadrosaurian record from Mexico. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 340-360 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
82620 | Á A. Ramírez-Velasco and R. Hernández-Rivera. 2015. Diversity of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from Mexico. Boletín Geológico y Minero 126(1):63-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
42526 | H. E. Rivera-Sylva, K. Carpenter, and F. J. Aranda-Manteca. 2011. Late Cretaceous nodosaurids (Ankylosauria: Ornithischia) from Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 28(3):371-378 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
82030 | H. E. Rivera-Sylva and K. Carpenter. 2014. The ornithischian dinosaurs of Mexico. In H. E. Rivera-Sylva, K. Carpenter, & E. Frey (eds.), Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico 156-180 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
82004 | H. E. Rivera-Sylva and K. Carpenter. 2014. Mexican saurischian dinosaurs. In H. E. Rivera-Sylva, K. Carpenter, & E. Frey (eds.), Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico 143-155 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
17032 | ETE | R. A. Rodriguez-de la Rosa. 1995. Remains of a new juvenile dinosaur probably related to Theropoda, from Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(3, suppl.):49A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
14772 | ETE | R. A. Rodriguez-de la Rosa. 1996. Vertebrate remains from a Late Cretaceous locality (Campanian, Cerro del Pueblo Formation), Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3, suppl.):60A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |