Corral de Enmedio Formation

Corral de Enmedio Formation
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 Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon		Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.

Vertebrates of the Corral de Enmedio Formation
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

• Earth sciences portal
• Paleontology portal
• Dinosaurs portal

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera

Footnotes

1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
2. "Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonora, Mexico," in Sullivan and Lucas (2006). Page 16.
3. 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.