Ejido El Pelillal: Late/Upper Campanian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890
Ramírez-Velasco and Hernández-Rivera 2015 1 specimen
caudal vertebraCPC 275,
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1918
1 specimen
IGM 7709, tooth
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Rodriguez-de la Rosa 1995 5 specimens
IGM 7711–7715
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
Rodriguez-de la Rosa 1996
Reptilia - Troodontidae
Troodontidae indet. Gilmore 1924
1 specimen
IGM 7710, pedal II phalanx
Reptilia
Pterodactyloidea indet. Plieninger 1901
1 element
IGM 7708, proximal ?left tibia
Reptilia - Goniopholididae
Goniopholididae indet. Cope 1875
3 specimens
IGM 7700, tooth; IGM 7701, sacral; IGM 7702, osteoderm
Reptilia
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875
5 specimens
IGM 7703 to 7707
Compsemys victa (Leidy 1856)
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868
Brinkman and Rodríguez de la Rosa 2006 1 specimen
reidentification of one peripheral referred to Trionychidae in ref. 694
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Kinosternoidea indet. Hay 1892
cf. Hoplochelys sp. Hay 1908
    = Yelmochelys rosarioae Brinkman et al. 2016
Brinkman et al. 2016
site said to be lower Maastrichtian and in the Canon del Tule Fm.
Reptilia - Testudines
cf. Protochelydra sp. Erickson 1973
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
cf. Melvius sp. Bryant 1987
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]
28255ETE 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]
17032ETE 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]
14772ETE 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]