Barranca Los Bonetes (Po) (Cretaceous of Mexico)

Where: Michoacán, Mexico (19.1° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 73.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cutzamala Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; limestone

Size class: microfossils

Collected in 2003

Primary reference: M. Benammi, E. Centeno-García, E. Martínez-Hernández, M. Morales-Gámez, G. Tolson and J. Urrutia-Fucugauchi. 2005. Presencia de dinosaurios en la Barranca Los Bonetes en el sur de México (Región de Tiquicheo, Estado de Michoacán) y sus implicaciones cronoestratigráficas [Presence of dinosaurs in the Barranca Los Bonetes in southern Mexico (Tiquicheo region, Michoacán state) and their chronostratigraphic implications]. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 22(3):429-435 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57047: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Angiospermae
 Fagales - Fagaceae
Quercus sp. Linnaeus 1753 oak
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
cf. Platycarya sp. Siebold and Zuccarini 1843
aff. Platycarya sp. Siebold and Zuccarini 1843
Carya sp. Nuttall 1818 hickory
 Caryophyllales - Chenopodiaceae
Chenopodipollis sp. Krutzsch 1966
 Asterales - Asteraceae
"cf. Compositae indet." = Asteraceae
"cf. Compositae indet." = Asteraceae Berchtold and Presl 1820 daisy
 Pandanales - Pandanaceae
cf. Pandanus sp. Parkinson 1773 pandan
 Life -
Pseudoplicapollis sp. Krutzsch 1967
"Momipites triradiatus" = Plicatopollis triradiata Nichols 1973