Fraustro (BENC): Late/Upper Campanian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1918
1 individual
BENC 4/1-0001-1
    = Saurolophinae indet. Brown 1914
Ramírez-Velasco and Hernández-Rivera 2015
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Coahuila
Coordinates: 25.9° North, 101.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.0° North, 75.6° 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
Geological group:Difunta Formation:Cerro del Pueblo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: formation dated to 72.5 Ma
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray mudstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: "a gray mudstone-sandstone sequence" with no details of actual site given, also "lenticular ledge-forming, channel-fill sandstones"
Environment:lacustrine deltaic indet.
Geology comments: "deltaic lake and bay deposits..interrupted by [channels]"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Ramos Arizpe
Database number:76743
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-11-30 08:31:48 Last modified:2023-02-09 15:51:35
Access level:the public Released:2007-11-30 08:31:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

25966.ETE C. I. Serrano-Brañas, R. Hernández-Rivera, E. Torres-Rodríguez and B. Espinosa Chávez. 2006. A natural hadrosaurid endocast from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Coahuila, Mexico. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:317-321 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

55641 A. A. Ramírez-Velasco, R. Hernández-Rivera, and R. Servin-Pichardo. 2014. The hadrosaurian record from Mexico. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 340-360 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82620 Á A. Ramírez-Velasco and R. Hernández-Rivera. 2015. Diversity of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from Mexico. Boletín Geológico y Minero 126(1):63-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82030 H. E. Rivera-Sylva and K. Carpenter. 2014. The ornithischian dinosaurs of Mexico. In H. E. Rivera-Sylva, K. Carpenter, & E. Frey (eds.), Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico 156-180 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76552 C. I. Serrano-Brañas, R. Hernández-Rivera, E. Torres-Rodríguez and B. Espinosa-Chávez. 2006. Endocráneos naturales de hadrosaurios del Cretácico Superior del estado de Coahuila, México [Natural endocrania of hadrosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Coahuila state, Mexico]. Memorie del X Congreso Nacional de Paleontología. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geología, Publicacion Especial 5:75 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]