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The El Gallo Formation is a geological formation in Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous, from the Santonian to the Maastrichtian.[1]

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  1. 28 relations: Albanerpetontidae, Alexornis, Brachychampsa, Chirostenotes, Crurotarsi, Dinosaur, Geological formation, Gryposaurus, La Bocana Roja Formation, Lambeosaurus, Late Cretaceous, Leidyosuchus, Lepidosauria, List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mexico, Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units, Maastrichtian, Magnapaulia, Mammal, Mesodma, Mudstone, Polyglyphanodon, Sandstone, Santonian, Saurornitholestinae, Siltstone, Stygimys, Troodon, Tyrannosauridae.

  2. Geography of Baja California
  3. Paleontology in Mexico
  4. Tidal deposits

Albanerpetontidae

The Albanerpetontidae (also spelled Albanerpetidae and Albanerpetonidae) are an extinct family of small amphibians, native to the Northern Hemisphere during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

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Alexornis

Alexornis is a genus of enantiornithine birds from the Bocana Roja Formation of Baja California, Mexico.

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Brachychampsa

Brachychampsa is an extinct genus of alligatorid, possibly a basal caiman.

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Chirostenotes

Chirostenotes (named from Greek 'narrow-handed') is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous (about 76.5 million years ago) of Alberta, Canada.

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Crurotarsi

Crurotarsi is a clade of archosauriform reptiles that includes crocodilians and stem-crocodilians and possibly bird-line archosaurs too if the extinct, crocodile-like phytosaurs are more distantly related to crocodiles than traditionally thought.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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Gryposaurus

Gryposaurus (meaning "hooked-nosed (Greek grypos) lizard"; sometimes incorrectly translated as "griffin (Latin gryphus) lizard") was a genus of duckbilled dinosaur that lived about 80 to 75 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous (late Santonian to late Campanian stages) of North America.

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La Bocana Roja Formation

La Bocana Roja Formation is a geological formation in Baja California, Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous, specifically around the Cenomanian to Turonian. El Gallo Formation and La Bocana Roja Formation are Paleontology in Mexico and Upper Cretaceous Series of North America.

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Lambeosaurus

Lambeosaurus (meaning "Lambe's lizard") is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived about 75 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period (Campanian stage) of North America.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Leidyosuchus

Leidyosuchus (meaning "Leidy's crocodile") is an extinct genus of alligatoroid from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta.

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Lepidosauria

The Lepidosauria (from Greek meaning scaled lizards) is a subclass or superorder of reptiles, containing the orders Squamata and Rhynchocephalia.

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mexico

This is a list of stratigraphic units (groups, formations and members), containing fossils and pertaining to the North American country of Mexico. El Gallo Formation and list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mexico are fossiliferous stratigraphic units of North America, geologic formations of Mexico and Paleontology in Mexico.

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Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units

This list of dinosaur-bearing rock formations is a list of geologic formations in which dinosaur fossils have been documented.

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Maastrichtian

The Maastrichtian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem.

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Magnapaulia

Magnapaulia is a genus of herbivorous lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaurs known from the Latest Cretaceous Baja California, of northwestern Mexico. El Gallo Formation and Magnapaulia are Cretaceous Mexico.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Mesodma

Mesodma is an extinct genus of mammal, a member of the extinct order Multituberculata within the suborder Cimolodonta, family Neoplagiaulacidae.

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Mudstone

Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.

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Polyglyphanodon

Polyglyphanodon is an extinct genus of polyglyphanodontid lizard containing the species P. sternbergi from the Maastrichtian aged North Horn Formation of Utah.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Santonian

The Santonian is an age in the geologic timescale or a chronostratigraphic stage.

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Saurornitholestinae

Saurornitholestinae is a subfamily of the theropod group Dromaeosauridae.

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Siltstone

Siltstone, also known as aleurolite, is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of silt.

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Stygimys

Stygimys is an extinct mammal genus from the Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene of North America.

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Troodon

Troodon (Troödon in older sources) is a former wastebasket taxon and a potentially dubious genus of relatively small, bird-like theropod dinosaurs definitively known from the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous period (about 77 mya).

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Tyrannosauridae

Tyrannosauridae (or tyrannosaurids, meaning "tyrant lizards") is a family of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs that comprises two subfamilies containing up to fifteen genera, including the eponymous Tyrannosaurus.

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See also

Geography of Baja California

Paleontology in Mexico

Tidal deposits

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Gallo_Formation