La Rosa (Cerro del Pueblo Formation) (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Also known as Coah 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)

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• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

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Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: no details given

Primary reference: R. A. Rodriguez-de la Rosa and S. R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz. 1998. Vertebrates of the El Pelillal locality (Campanian, Cerro del Pueblo Formation), southeastern Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(4):751-764 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24260: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 03.08.2002, edited by Monica Arakaki, Jason Cassara and Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Tricostatocarpon silvapinedae n. gen. n. sp.2, Striatornata sanantoniensis2
Tricostatocarpon silvapinedae n. gen. n. sp.2
Fruits
Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Kinosternoidea
cf. Hoplochelys sp.
cf. Hoplochelys sp. Hay 1908 mud turtle
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
Goniopholididae indet.
Goniopholididae indet. Cope 1875 crocodilian
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.1, Hadrosaurinae indet., Lambeosaurinae indet.1
Hadrosauridae indet.1 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
caudals, IGM
Hadrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1918 hadrosaurine
caudal vertebrae, ulna, femur, tibia, Coah La Rosa-1
Lambeosaurinae indet.1 Parks 1923 lambeosaurine
BENC 18/1-0901
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.1
Ankylosauridae indet.1 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
BENC 1/4-0001 to 0004, osteoderms
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
cf. Melvius sp.
cf. Melvius sp. Bryant 1987 bowfin
1Ramírez-Velasco and Hernández-Rivera 2015; 2Rodriguez-de la Rosa and Cevallos-Ferriz 1994