Earth:Packard Formation

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Packard Formation
Stratigraphic range: Mesozoic
TypeGeological formation
Unit ofCabollona 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.

Vertebrates of the Packard Formation
Genus Species Location Stratigraphic position Abundance Notes

Albertosaurus[3]

Indeterminate[3]

Chamops[2]

C. segnis[2]

Melvius[2]

Indeterminate[2]

Tototlmimus[4]

T. packardensis[4]

Cabullona Group

See also

  • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
    • List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils

Footnotes

  1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonora, Mexico," in Sullivan and Lucas (2006). Page 16.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Listed as "cf. Albertosaurus sp." in "Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonora, Mexico," in Sullivan and Lucas (2006). Page 16.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Claudia Inés Serrano-Brañas; Esperanza Torres-Rodríguez; Paola Carolina Reyes-Luna; Ixchel González-Ramírez; 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. 

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