Cerro de los Dinosaurios, 11 Quarry: Late/Upper Campanian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Coahuila |
| Coordinates: | 25.5° North, 101.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.6° North, 76.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Difunta | Formation: | Cerro del Pueblo | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 335 m from base of formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray lithified calcareous mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a highly cemented calcareous grey mudstone" | |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
| Geology comments: shallow, extensive brackish water bays, distributary channels | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Coah 1, Quarry 11, Cerro de la Virgen, Ejido Rincon Colorado | ||
| Database number: | 79610 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-03-14 14:33:31 | Last modified: | 2022-09-19 14:15:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-03-14 14:33:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 61988. | R. Hernández-Rivera. 1997. Mexican dinosaurs. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 433-437 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 26232 | ETE | J. I. Kirkland and M. C. Aguillón-Martínez. 2002. Schizorhiza: a unique sawfish paradigm from the Difunta Group, Coahuila, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 19(1):16-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 82622 | C. I. Serrano Brañas. 2006. Descripción de los Dinosaurios Pertenecientes a la Familia Hadrosauridae del Cretácico Superior de Coahuila, México [Description of the Dinosaurs Pertaining to the Family Hadrosauridae from the Upper Cretaceous of Coahuila, Mexico]. 1-173 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] |