The Olmos Formation is a geologic formation in Mexico. It preserves fossils of plants, hadrosaurs, ceratopsians, tyrannosaurs and the turtle Palauchelys montellanoi dating back to the Cretaceous period.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
| Olmos Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian | |
| Type | Formation |
| Location | |
| Region | Coahuila, Texas |
| Country | Mexico, United States |
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References edit
- ^ Estrada-Ruiz, Emilio; Martinez Cabrera, Hugo I.; RS Cevallos-Ferriz, Sergio (June 2007). "Fossil woods from the late Campanian–early Maastrichtian Olmos Formation, Coahuila, Mexico". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 145 (1): 123–133. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.09.003.
- ^ Upchurch, G. R.; Estrada-Ruiz, E.; Cevallos-Ferriz, S. S. (December 2008). "Did tropical rainforest vegetation exist during the Late Cretaceous? New data from the late Campanian to early Maastrichtian Olmos Formation, Coahuila, Mexico". American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting. 2008: 11D–07. Bibcode:2008AGUFMPP11D..07U.
- ^ Estrada-Ruiz, E.; Martínez-Cabrera, H.I.; Cevallos-Ferriz, S.R. (July 2010). "Upper Cretaceous woods from the Olmos Formation (late Campanian-early Maastrichtian), Coahuila, Mexico". American Journal of Botany. 97 (7): 1179–94. doi:10.3732/ajb.0900234. PMID 21616869.
- ^ Alejandro Ramírez Velasco, Angel; Hernandez Rivera, Rene; Servin-Pichardo, Ricardo (January 2014). "The Hadrosaurian Record from Mexico". HADROSAURS, Chapter: Biogeography and Biostratigraphy: 340–360.
- ^ Gerardo Porras-Muzquiz, Hector; Lehman, Thomas M. (August 2011). "A ceratopsian horncore from the Olmos Formation (early Maastrichtian) near Múzquiz, Mexico". Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 28 (2): 262–266.
- ^ Ramírez-Velasco, A. A; Hernández-Rivera, R. (2015). "Diversity of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from Mexico". Boletín Geológico y Minero. 126 (1): 63–108. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
7. Oliver A. López-Conde, Adán Pérez-García, María L. Chavarría-Arellano, Jesús Alvarado-Ortega, A new bothremydid turtle (Pleurodira) from the Olmos Formation (upper Campanian) of Coahuila, Mexico, Cretaceous Research, Volume 119.
External links edit
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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