Also known as Saltillo, Hipolito
Where: Coahuila, Mexico (25.7° N, 101.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 75.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cerro del Pueblo Formation (Difunta Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• "Tayloran + Navarroan" age (= "Bellyriveran"); fossils 980 ft above base of cuesta, base of group, could be Cerro del Pueblo Fm. "Unit A."
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. O. Durham & G. E. Murray in 1959
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: G. E. Murray, D. R. Boyd, J. A. Wolleben and J. A. Wilson. 1960. Late Cretaceous fossil locality, eastern Parras Basin, Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 34(2):368-370 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51545: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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