El Cañon de las Ánimas tracksite: Late Campanian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Coahuila
Coordinates: 25.4° North, 101.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.5° North, 68.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Late Campanian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Difunta Formation:Cerro del Pueblo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:lacustrine 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
Metadata
Also known as:General Cepeda, las Animas
Database number:149735
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-08-23 08:25:15 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-08-23 08:25:15
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:

82051 V. M. Bravo Cuevas. 2015. El registro de huellas de dinosaurios de los estados de Oaxaca, Michoacán y Puebla [The dinosaur track record of the states of Oaxaca, Michoacán and Puebla]. In C. Castañeda Posadas (ed.), El Registro Paleobiológico del Estado de Puebla 66-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]