La Bocana Roja Formation

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]

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

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
  • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

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. "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. 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. "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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