Packard Formation Explained
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.
Paleofauna
The fragmentary remains of indeterminate lepisosteids, trionychids, eusuchians, hadrosaurids, and ceratopsids are known from the Packard Formation.
| Vertebrates of the Packard Formation |
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| Genus | Species | Location | Stratigraphic position | Abundance | Notes | Images |
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| Albertosaurus[3] | Indeterminate | | | | | |
| Chamops | C. segnis | | | | |
| Melvius | Indeterminate | | | | |
| Tototlmimus[4] | T. packardensis | Cabullona Group | | | |
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See also
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
- Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- "Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonora, Mexico," in Sullivan and Lucas (2006). Page 16.
- Listed as "cf. Albertosaurus sp." in "Corral De Enmedio and Packard Formations, Cabollona Group, Sonora, Mexico," in Sullivan and Lucas (2006). Page 16.
- 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 . 10.1016/j.cretres.2015.08.013 . free .
