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Geological formation in Baja California, Mexico
La Bocana Roja Formation
Stratigraphic range:
Late Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
TypeGeological formation
UnderliesPunta Baja Formation
Location
RegionNorth 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. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

Vertebrate paleofauna

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 reported from the La Bocana Roja Formation
Genus Species Location Member Material Notes Images

Alexornis

A. antecedens

"Postcranial elements."

Labocania
Hadrosauridae Indeterminate "bone fragments; humerus"

Labocania

L. anomala

"Very fragmentary skull and postcrania."

Lambeosaurinae Indeterminate "left ischium and fragment of left ilium, right jugal, dentary, radial fragment, scapula, ulna and fibula fragment, humerus, pedal ungual phalanx." Probably belongs to one taxon.

See also

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. ^ "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. ^ 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. ^ "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.

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.


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