Cerro del Pueblo
151 occ.
39 taxa (5 genera)
1 countries
Description
The Cerro del Pueblo Formation is a geological formation in Saltillo, capital city of the state of Coahuila, Mexico, whose strata date back to the latest Campanian of the Late Cretaceous, just before the Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. The formation is believed to correlate with the Baculites reesidesi and Baculites jenseni ammonite zones, which dates it to 73.63-72.74 Ma.
Genera
5 genera
Temporal range
252
201
145
66
0 Ma
Geological group / Member
Difunta
151
Top countries
🇲🇽 Mexico
151
Depositional environments
Terrestrial indet.
74
Estuary / bay
21
Marginal marine indet.
15
Fluvial-deltaic indet.
14
Delta plain
11
Channel
5
Fluvial-lacustrine indet.
4
Marine indet.
2
Coastal indet.
2
lacustrine deltaic indet.
1
Top collectors
UNAM
11
R. López
8
J. Rojas
6
C. O. Durham
2
G. E. Murray
2
ROM
2
UMNH
2
RTMP
2
FCB UANL
1
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) and from the Instituto de Geología of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
1
J. A. Wilson
1
E. H. Colbert
1
Collection activity by decade
1950s
3
1970s
10
1980s
44
1990s
9
2000s
25
2010s
6