Punta San Ysidro North (UCMP V-5316) (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Also known as San Isidro, Eréndira

Where: Baja California, Mexico (31.3° N, 116.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 87.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: El Gallo Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; yellow packstone

• "fossiliferous yellow 'packsand'"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. W. Durham & J. Peck in 1953; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: W. Langston and M. H. Oakes. 1954. Hadrosaurs in Baja California. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 65(12):1344 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55361: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 12.10.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
UCMP 43251; pedal elements