Packard Formation
| Packard Formation | |
|---|---|
| Type | Geological formation |
| Unit of | Cabollona Group |
| Location | |
| Country |
 Mexico |
The Packard 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 Corral de Enmedio Formation.[2]
Paleofauna
The fragmentary remains of indeterminate lepisosteids, trionychids, eusuchians, hadrosaurids, and ceratopsids are known from the Packard Formation.
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
| Vertebrates of the Packard Formation | ||||||
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Abundance | Notes | |
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Indeterminate[3] |
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Chamops[2] |
C. segnis[2] |
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Indeterminate[2] |
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T. packardensis[4] |
Cabullona Group |
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See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonora, Mexico," in Sullivan and Lucas (2006). Page 16.
- 1 2 Listed as "cf. Albertosaurus sp." in "Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonora, Mexico," in Sullivan and Lucas (2006). Page 16.
- 1 2 Claudia Inés Serrano-Brañas, Esperanza Torres-Rodríguez, Paola Carolina Reyes-Luna, Ixchel González-Ramírez and Carlos González-Leóne (2016). "A new ornithomimid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Packard Shale Formation (Cabullona Group) Sonora, México". Cretaceous Research. 58: 49–62. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.08.013.
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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