Barranca Los Bonetes (f6) (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Michoacán, Mexico (19.1° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 73.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cutzamala Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2003

Primary reference: Á A. Ramírez-Velasco, M. Bennammi, J. Alvarado Ortega and R. Hernández Rivera. 2009. Informe preliminar sobe los nuevos fósiles de dinosaurios de la localidad Barranca Los Bonetes (Tuzantla, Michoacán) del Cretácico Superior [Preliminary report on the new dinosaur fossils from the Barranca Los Bonetes locality (Tuzantla, Michoacán) from the Upper Cretaceous]. XI Congreso Nacional de Paleontología 118 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 131842: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Ramírez-Velasco et al. 2012 ornithopod
IGM 6253
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
2 teeth (IGM)
Tetanurae indet.2 Gauthier 1986 tetanuran theropod
chevron (IGM)