Also known as Porvenir de Jalpa, Las Aguilas
Where: Coahuila, Mexico (25.5° N, 101.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 76.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Difunta Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• localities are from a 35 m thick interval near the "middle" of the overall 800 m section of the formation
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace, concretion, soft parts
Collected in 2003
Primary reference: D. Eberth, S. D. Sampson, R. A. Rodriguez-De La Rosa, M. Aguillon-Martinez, D. B. Brinkman and J. Lopez-Espinoza. 2003. Las Aguilas: an unusually rich Campanian-age vertebrate locale in southern Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3):47A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 35360: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.12.2003, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle | |
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Bothremydina indet.1 Gaffney et al. 2006 sideneck turtle SEPCP 61/719, 720, 749–755 ("Posadachelys cerropueblensis")
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Clidastes sp. Cope 1868 mosasaur | |
Varanidae indet. Hardwicke and Gray 1824 monitor lizard | |
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Melvius sp. Bryant 1987 bowfin | |
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