Mitepec tracksite, locality 2 (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Puebla, Mexico (18.2° N, 98.9° W: paleocoordinates 24.4° N, 80.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; fine-grained sandstone and calcareous marl

• "brackish lagoon"
• "fine-grained, quartz-phyllarenitic sandstones interbedded by marly limestones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 171008: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.06.2015

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
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