Corral de Enmedio Formation explained

Corral de Enmedio Formation
Type:	Geological formation
Age:	Mesozoic
Period:	Mesozoic
Unitof:	Cabollona Group

The Corral de Enmedio Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Mexico.^[1] The formation may be from the Kirtlandian land vertebrate age.^[2] It has a similar fauna to the Packard Formation.

Paleofauna

The fragmentary remains of indeterminate lepisosteids, trionychids, eusuchians, hadrosaurids, and ceratopsids are known from the Corral de Enmedio Formation.

Vertebrates of the Corral de Enmedio Formation
Genus	Species	Location	Stratigraphic position	Abundance	Notes	Images -->
Albertosaurus^[3]	Indeterminate					-->
Chamops	C. segnis
Melvius	Indeterminate
Trachodon	T. mirabilis				Later found to be indeterminate hadrosaurid remains.

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera

References

• Sullivan, R.M., and Lucas, S.G. 2006. "The Kirtlandian land-vertebrate "age" – faunal composition, temporal position and biostratigraphic correlation in the nonmarine Upper Cretaceous of western North America." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 35:7-29.
• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. .

Notes and References

1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
2. "Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonora, Mexico," in Sullivan and Lucas (2006). Page 16.
3. Listed as "cf. Albertosaurus sp." "Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonora, Mexico," in Sullivan and Lucas (2006). Page 16.