Also known as L&W locality 49, Naco-Cananea
Where: Sonora, Mexico (31.1° N, 109.6° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 82.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Corral de Enmedio Formation (Cabullona Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• upper part of formation, described as "comparable in age to the Edmonton formation", originally "Snake Ridge Formation." Later assigned to "Packard" beds by Lucas & González-Léon.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified, green, sandy, carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by N. Taliaferro
• "large dinosaur bones and teeth"
Primary reference: N. L. Taliaferro. 1933. An occurrence of Upper Cretaceous sediments in northern Sonora, Mexico. Journal of Geology 41:12-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46163: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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