UBS (BENC 18/1) (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Also known as 3 km northeast of La Rosa

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (25.5° N, 101.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 75.9° 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)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; black, gray mudstone and sandstone

• tabular beds of black-grayish mudstones intercalated with siltstones and fine-grained sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: no details given

Primary reference: C. I. Serrano-Brañas, B. Espinosa-Chávez, S. A. Maccracken, D. Barrera Guevara, and E. Torres-Rodríguez. 2022. First record of caenagnathid dinosaurs (Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria) from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous), Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 119:104046 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231026: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 01.08.2023

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Caenagnathidae
Caenagnathidae indet. Sternberg 1940 maniraptoran
BENC 18/1-0004