La Bocana Roja Formation
La Bocana Roja Formation Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous | |
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Type | Geological formation |
Location | |
Region | North America |
La Bocana Roja Formation is a geological formation in Baja California, Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]
Vertebrate paleofauna[]
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Vertebrates reported from the La Bocana Roja Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Location | Member | Material | Notes | Images |
A. antecedens[2] |
"Postcranial elements."[3] |
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Hadrosauridae | Indeterminate | "bone fragments; humerus"[4] | ||||
L. anomala[5] |
"Very fragmentary skull and postcrania."[6] |
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Lambeosaurinae | Indeterminate | "left ischium and fragment of left ilium, right jugal, dentary, radial fragment, scapula, ulna and fibula fragment, humerus, pedal ungual phalanx."[4] | Probably belongs to one taxon. |
See also[]
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
Footnotes[]
- ^ Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, North America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 574-588. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- ^ a b "La Bocana Roja Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 588. Also see "Appendix: Summary of the Mesozoic Reptilian Fossils of California," in Hilton (2003) p. 264
- ^ "Table 11.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 212.
- ^ a b Ramírez-Velasco, A. A.; Hernández-Rivera, R. (2015). "Diversity of late cretaceous dinosaurs from Mexico" (PDF). Boletín Geológico y Minero. 126 (1): 63–108.
- ^ a b "La Bocana Roja Formation." Weishampel, et al. (2004). Pg. 588. Also see "Appendix: Summary of the Mesozoic Reptilian Fossils of California," in Hilton (2003) p. 261
- ^ "Table 5.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 114.
References[]
- Hilton, Richard P. 2003. Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California. Berkeley: University of California Press. 318 pp.
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
Categories:
- Paleontology in Mexico
- Upper Cretaceous Series of North America
- Paleontological site stubs
- Baja California geography stubs