Fraustro (BENC): Late Campanian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosaurinae indet.
Lambe 1918
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1 individual | |||||||||
| BENC 4/1-0001-1 | ||||||||||
| 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: | 34.9° North, 67.9° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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 | ||||
| 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: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-11-30 08:31:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
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] |