The Corral de Enmedio Formation is a
Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era ( ), also called the Age of Reptiles, the Age of Conifers, and colloquially as the Age of the Dinosaurs is the second-to-last era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about , comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceo ...
geologic
formation
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in Mexico.
[Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.] The formation may be from the Kirtlandian land vertebrate age.
["Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonora, Mexico," in Sullivan and Lucas (2006). Page 16.] It has a similar fauna to the
Packard Formation
The Packard Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation.Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607. The formation may be from the Kirtlandian land vertebrate age."Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonor ...
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Paleofauna
The fragmentary remains of indeterminate lepisosteids, trionychids, eusuchians, hadrosaurids, and ceratopsids are known from the Corral de Enmedio Formation.
See also
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List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
This list of dinosaur-bearing rock formations is a list of geologic formations in which dinosaur fossils have been documented.
Containing body fossils
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List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera
This list of stratigraphic units with few non-avian dinosaur genera includes Mesozoic stratigraphic units of formation rank or higher that have produced dinosaur body fossils which have been referred to at most five genera. Since taxonomy frequent ...
Footnotes
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. .
Cretaceous System of North America
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