Earth:Olmos Formation

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Olmos Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian
TypeFormation
Location
RegionCoahuila, Texas
CountryMexico, United States
Olmos Formation stratigraphic column in Texas

The Olmos Formation is a geologic formation in Mexico. It preserves fossils of plants, hadrosaurs like Kritosaurus,[1] ceratopsians, tyrannosaurs and the turtle Palauchelys montellanoi dating back to the Cretaceous period.[2][3][4][5][6][7]


See also

  • List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mexico

References

  1. Lucas, Spencer G.; Sullivan, Robert M. (2006) (in en). Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior: Bulletin 35. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. p. 273. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Late_Cretaceous_Vertebrates_from_the_Wes/rCDYCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. 
  2. 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. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222248171. 
  3. 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. Bibcode2008AGUFMPP11D..07U. 
  4. 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. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222248171. 
  5. Alejandro Ramírez Velasco, Angel; Hernandez Rivera, Rene; Servin-Pichardo, Ricardo (January 2014). "The Hadrosaurian Record from Mexico". HADROSAURS, Chapter: Biogeography and Biostratigraphy: 340–360. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278018253. 
  6. 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. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286279674. 
  7. Ramírez-Velasco, A. A; Hernández-Rivera, R. (2015). "Diversity of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from Mexico". Boletín Geológico y Minero 126 (1): 63–108. https://www.academia.edu/12268212. 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.