Fiesta de los Huesos: Late/Upper Campanian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelydridae
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cf. Chelydridae indet.
Swainson 1839
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| IGM-11172 (Fig. 2H), a single fragment of a peripheral plate | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Baja California |
| Coordinates: | 30.1° North, 115.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.5° North, 86.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | El Gallo |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: IGM, Colección Nacional de Paleontología "María del Carmen Perrillat", Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 197023 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | ||
| Created: | 2018-10-19 13:42:02 | Last modified: | 2021-02-18 07:55:09 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-10-19 13:42:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 67117. | O. A. López-Conde, J. Sterli, M. L. Chavarría-Arellano, D. B. Brinkman, and M. Montellano-Ballesteros. 2018. Turtles from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of El Gallo Formation, Baja California, Mexico. South American Journal of Earth Sciences 88:693-699 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion] |