Dinopato site (JLE-1) (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Also known as Southern tip of Cuesta de la Asadura hill; Ejido Guadalupe

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (25.4° N, 101.7° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 76.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Difunta Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; green mudstone and red sandstone

• coastal flood basin
• dark greenish mudstone interbedded with reddish sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) and from the Instituto de Geología of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 2005, 2013

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179648: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 23.06.2016, edited by Philip Mannion and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Tlatolophus galorum n. gen. n. sp.
Tlatolophus galorum n. gen. n. sp. Ramírez-Velasco et al. 2021 lambeosaurine
CIC/P/147 - holotype