Barranca Los Bonetes (f3) (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Michoacán, Mexico (19.1° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 73.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cutzamala Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2003

Primary reference: M. Benammi, E. Centeno-García, E. Martínez-Hernández, M. Morales-Gámez, G. Tolson and J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi. 2005. Presencia de dinosaurios en la Barranca Los Bonetes en el sur de México (Región de Tiquicheo, Estado de Michoacán) y sus implicaciones cronoestratigráficas [Presence of dinosaurs in the Barranca Los Bonetes in southern Mexico (Tiquicheo region, Michoacán state) and their chronostratigraphic implications]. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 22(3):429-435 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57046: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Hadrosauroidea indet.2 Huene 1954 ornithopod
femur (IGM)
Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis1 Ramírez-Velasco et al. 2012 ornithopod
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
tibia, fibula, MT IV; tibia (IGM) (? Ceratosauria)