Cerro del Pueblo Fm (Difunta Group, Upper Cretaceous), Parras Basin, southern Coahuila, Mexico: Reference sections, age, and correlation

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 335-352

  Eberth, David A ^a   Delgado De Jesús, Carlos R ^b   Lerbekmo, John F ^c   Brinkman, Donald B ^a   Rodríguez De La Rosa, Rubén A ^d   Sampson, Scott D ^e  

^a ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

^b Secretaria de Educacion Publica   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d Museo del Desierto SEPC   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerro del Pueblo Formation; Cerro Huerta Formation; Coahuila; Cretaceous; Difunta Group; Dinosaurs; Magnetostratigraphy; M xico; Mesozoic; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751371693     PISSN: 10268774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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