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- Title
Lower Cretaceous Dinosaur Tracks from Puebla, Mexico.
- Authors
Rodríguez-de la Rosa, Rubén A.; Bravo-Cuevas, Víctor M.; Carrillo-Montiel, Enrique; Ortiz-Ubilla, Arturo
- Abstract
Dinosaur tracks have been identified near San Martín Atexcal, southern Puebla, Mexico, within the sedimentary sequence of the San Juan Raya Formation of Lower Cretaceous (Albian) age. The tracksite, located in the bed of the Magdalena River, reveals six different ichnofossiliferous levels identified within a 9 m thick sedimentary sequence. The inferred environment is that of a tidal (marginal marine) mudflat (Level I). Level I preserves three theropods trackways (?Allosauroidea), additionally, isolated tracks belonging to iguanodontids (Ornithopoda). Level II preserves faint iguanodontid tracks. Levels III to V preserve sauropod tracks. Younger level VI preserves, although morphologically different, a track belonging to Ornithopoda. The dinosaur tracks from San Martín Atexcal support the existence of continental facies within the San Juan Raya Formation; they represent the second record of dinosaur tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of Mexico and are part of an important but little documented record of Lower Cretaceous dinosaurs in Mexico.
- Subjects
PUEBLA (Mexico : State); MEXICO; CRETACEOUS Period; DINOSAUR tracks; SEDIMENTARY structures; AMBER fossils; SAURISCHIA
- Publication
Journal of Geological Research, 2012, p1
- ISSN
1687-8833
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2012/808729