La Bocana Roja Formation is a geological formation in Baja California, Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous, although the precise age is unclear.[1][2] Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[3]
| La Bocana Roja Formation | |
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| Stratigraphic range: | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Underlies | Punta Baja Formation |
| Location | |
| Region | North America |
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 |
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A. antecedens[4] |
"Postcranial elements."[5] |
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| Hadrosauridae | Indeterminate | "bone fragments; humerus"[6] | ||||
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L. anomala[7] |
"Very fragmentary skull and postcrania."[8] |
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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."[6] | Probably belongs to one taxon. | |||
See also
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Footnotes
edit- ^ Rivera-Sylva, Héctor E.; Longrich, Nicholas R. (2024). "A New Tyrant Dinosaur from the Late Campanian of Mexico Reveals a Tribe of Southern Tyrannosaurs". Fossil Studies. 2 (4): 245–272. doi:10.3390/fossils2040012.
- ^ Kane, I. A.; Hodgson, D. M.; Hubbard, S. M.; McArthur, A. D.; Poyatos-Moré, M.; Soutter, E. L.; Flint, S. S.; Matthews, W. (2022). "Deep-water Tectono-Stratigraphy at a Plate Boundary Constrained by Large N-Detrital Zircon and Micropaleontological Approaches: Peninsular Ranges Forearc, Baja California, Mexico". The Sedimentary Record. 20 (1). doi:10.2110/001c.37652. S2CID 59406495.
- ^ 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
edit- 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.
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