La Bocana Roja Formation

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La Bocana Roja Formation
Stratigraphic range:
Late Cretaceous
Type Geological formation
UnderliesPunta Baja 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, although the precise age is unclear. [1] [2] Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. [3]

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Vertebrate paleofauna

Color key
Taxon Reclassified taxonTaxon falsely reported as presentDubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Vertebrates reported from the La Bocana Roja Formation
GenusSpeciesLocationMemberMaterialNotesImages

Alexornis [4]

A. antecedens [4]

"Postcranial elements." [5]

Labocania Labocania anomala.jpg
Labocania
Hadrosauridae Indeterminate"bone fragments; humerus" [6]

Labocania [7]

L. anomala [7]

"Very fragmentary skull and postcrania." [8]

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.

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Footnotes

  1. 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 .
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 1 2 "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
  5. "Table 11.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 212.
  6. 1 2 Ramírez-Velasco, A. A.; Hernández-Rivera, R. (2015). "Diversity of late cretaceous dinosaurs from Mexico" (PDF). Boletín Geológico y Minero. 126 (1): 63–108.
  7. 1 2 "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
  8. "Table 5.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 114.

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