Corral de Enmedio Formation
Geologic formation in Mexico
Corral de Enmedio Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Mesozoic | |
Type | Geological formation |
Unit of | Cabollona Group |
Location | |
Country | Mexico |
The Corral de Enmedio Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Mexico.[1] The formation may be from the Kirtlandian land vertebrate age.[2] It has a similar fauna to the Packard Formation.[2]
Paleofauna
The fragmentary remains of indeterminate lepisosteids, trionychids, eusuchians, hadrosaurids, and ceratopsids are known from the Corral de Enmedio Formation.
Color key
| Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Vertebrates of the Corral de Enmedio Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Abundance | Notes | |
Albertosaurus[3] | Indeterminate[3] | |||||
Chamops[2] | C. segnis[2] | |||||
Melvius[2] | Indeterminate[2] | |||||
Trachodon[1] | T. mirabilis[1] | Later found to be indeterminate hadrosaurid remains.[1] |
See also
Footnotes
- ^ a b c d Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ^ a b c d e f "Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonora, Mexico," in Sullivan and Lucas (2006). Page 16.
- ^ a b Listed as "cf. Albertosaurus sp." "Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonora, Mexico," in Sullivan and Lucas (2006). Page 16.
References
- Sullivan, R.M., and Lucas, S.G. 2006. "The Kirtlandian land-vertebrate "age" – faunal composition, temporal position and biostratigraphic correlation in the nonmarine Upper Cretaceous of western North America[permanent dead link]." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 35:7-29.
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
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