LSU Cuesta "A", Hipólito (Cretaceous of Mexico)

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

• "a gray to brown fossiliferous sand and shale sequence"

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)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mollusca indet.1 Linnaeus 1758
"marine molluscs"
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Isocardia sp.2 Lamarck 1799 clam
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Centrosaurinae indet.3 Lambe 1915 ceratopsid
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Trachodon sp.2 Leidy 1856 hadrosaurid