Ejido de la Cuchilla, Palaú (Cretaceous to of Mexico)

Also known as Papaul, IGM Loc. 313

Where: Coahuila, Mexico (27.9° N, 101.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 76.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Olmos Formation (Navarro Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• "upper beds of the coal zone"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. I. Delgado in 1969

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. Ojeda Rivera, J. Delgado Hernández, and S. Villamar. 1968. Sabinas Coal Region Guidebook. GSA Field Trip No. 1: Geology of the Sabinas Coal Basin, Coahuila 1-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91053: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.09.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Chasmosaurinae indet.1 Lambe 1915 ceratopsid
"tentatively referred to Chasmosaurus by Dr. Wann Langston Jr."
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.2 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
IGM
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 theropod
tooth (IGM)