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Tepetate Formation

geologic formation in Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ18388599 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Tepetate Formation is a geologic formation in Mexico. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period.

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mexico

References

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Archived from the original on 25 March 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tepetate Formation” is geologic formation in Mexico. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tepetate, Formation and geologic, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tepetate, Formation and geologic is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tepetate Formation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.