El Quemado tracksite: Late Campanian - Maastrichtian, Mexico
collected 2002
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Reptilia
- Pterosauria
- Pteraichnidae
|
|||||||
|
Reptilia
|
|||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Coahuila |
| Coordinates: | 28.2° North, 102.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.8° North, 68.7° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian - Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 - Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Late Campanian - Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.6 - 66 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | current ripples sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 2002 |
| Collection method comments: Parras Basin Dinosaur Project | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 149734 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-08-23 08:20:31 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-08-23 08:20:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 47964. | R. A. Rodríguez-de la Rosa, M. C. Aguillón-Martínez, and J. López-Espinoza. 2004. The fossil record of vertebrate tracks in Mexico. Ichnos 11:27-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 82044 | V. M. Bravo-Cuevas and R. A. Rodríguez-de la Rosa. 2014. A summary of the Mesozoic vertebrate tracks of Mexico. In H. E. Rivera-Sylva, K. Carpenter, & E. Frey (eds.), Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico 181-192 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 82050 | F. J. Jímenez Moreno, H. E. Rivera Sylva, and G. Carbot Chanona. 2012. La paleoicnología: tras la huella de los dinosaurios [Paleoichnology: in the footsteps of the dinosaurs]. Elementos 86:17-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 89854 | E. Jiménez-Hidalgo, G. Carbot-Chanona, and V. Bravo-Cuevas. 2024. Vertebrate ichnofossils and paleoenvironments. In R. G. a. E. Jiménez-Hidalgo (ed.), Springer Geology 325-337 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |