La Bocana Roja Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous
TypeGeological formation
Location
RegionNorth America

La Bocana Roja Formation is a geological formation in Baja California, Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]

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[2]

A. antecedens[2]

"Postcranial elements."[3]
Labocania
Hadrosauridae Indeterminate "bone fragments; humerus"[4]

Labocania[5]

L. anomala[5]

"Very fragmentary skull and postcrania."[6]
Lambeosaurinae Indeterminate "left ischium and fragment of left ilium, right jugal, dentary, radial fragment, scapula, ulna and fibula fragment, humerus, pedal ungual phalanx."[4] Probably belongs to one taxon.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. 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
  3. ↑ "Table 11.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 212.
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. ↑ "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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