Las Jicoteas (lower horizon): Late/Upper Campanian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Nodosauridae
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? Edmontonia sp.
Sternberg 1928
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1 individual | |||||||||
| CPC 273; "Specimen C"; osteoderms and postcrania | ||||||||||
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= Nodosauridae indet.
Marsh 1890
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Rivera-Sylva et al. 2009 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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| "probably Kritosaurus" | ||||||||||
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= cf. Kritosaurus sp.
Brown 1910
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Rivera-Sylva et al. 2009 | |||||||||
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= Saurolophinae indet.
Brown 1914
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Ramírez-Velasco and Hernández-Rivera 2015 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Tyrannosauridae indet.
Osborn 1906
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| CPC-320 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Rivera-Sylva et al. 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| CPC-319 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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cf. Deinosuchus sp.
Holland 1909
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Rivera-Sylva et al. 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| CPC-318 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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| CPC-316 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Baenidae indet.
Cope 1882
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Rivera-Sylva et al. 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| CPC-317 | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteidae indet.
Cuvier 1825
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| CPC-315 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Coahuila |
| Coordinates: | 28.9° North, 103.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.4° North, 76.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: | Aguja | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: correlated to upper member of Aguja Fm in nearby Big Bend, TX | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | green,yellow claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | delta plain |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
| Geology comments: "system was deltaic with a narrow prodelta seam with marshes, oxbows, and near shore lagoons with sandy or silty bars" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | El Carricito, Ocampo | ||
| Database number: | 99139 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-10-28 13:43:46 | Last modified: | 2022-09-20 13:59:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-10-28 13:43:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 82617. | H. E. Rivera-Sylva, J. R. Guzman-Gutiérrez, F. R. Palomino- Sánchez, J. López-Espinosa, and I. Peña-Oviedo. 2009. Primer reporte del género Edmontonia (Thyreophora: Nodosauridae) para México [First report of the genus Edmontonia (Thyreophora: Nodosauridae) for Mexico]. XI Congreso Nacional de Paleontología 62 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 82636 | J. L. Martínez Díaz. 2011. El Registro Fósil de Anquilosaurios (Thyreophora-Ankylosauria) del Cretácico Superior de México [The Fossil Record of Ankylosaurs (Thyreophora-Ankylosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mexico]. 1-49 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] | |
| 46756 | A. Prieto-Marquez. 2013. Skeletal morphology of Kritosaurus navajovius (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of the North American south-west, with an evaluation of the phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of Kritosaurini. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano] | |
| 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] | |
| 34097 | ETE | H. Rivera-Sylva, E. Frey, F. J. Palomino-Sánchez, J. R. Guzmán-Gutiérrez, and J. A. Oritz-Mendieta. 2009. Preliminary report on a Late Cretaceous vertebrate fossil assemblage in northwestern Coahuila, Mexico. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 61(2):239-244 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 42526 | H. E. Rivera-Sylva, K. Carpenter, and F. J. Aranda-Manteca. 2011. Late Cretaceous nodosaurids (Ankylosauria: Ornithischia) from Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 28(3):371-378 [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] |