Corral de Enmedio Formation
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| Corral de Enmedio Formation | |
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| Type | Geological formation |
| Unit of | Cabollona Group |
| Location | |
| Country |  Mexico |
The Corral de Enmedio Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation.[1] The formation may be from the Kirtlandian land vertebrate age.[2] It has a similar fauna to the Packard Formation.[2]
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Paleofauna
The fragmentary remains of indeterminate lepisosteids, trionychids, eusuchians, hadrosaurids, and ceratopsids are known from the Corral de Enmedio Formation.
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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 | |
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Indeterminate[3] |
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C. segnis[2] |
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Indeterminate[2] |
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T. mirabilis[1] |
Later found to be indeterminate hadrosaurid remains.[1] |
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See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonora, Mexico," in Sullivan and Lucas (2006). Page 16.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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." 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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