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Mid-Turonian ammonite faunas from northern Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. J. Kennedy
Affiliation:
Geological Collections, University Museum, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW
W. A. Cobban
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, Mail Stop 919, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, U.S.A.

Abstract

Turonian ammonite assemblages are described from six localities in the Ojinaga and Boquillas formations of Chihuahua in northern Mexico. These assemblages reveal the presence of the middle Turonian zones of Collignoniceras woollgari and Prionocyclus hyatti far to the south of previously documented occurrences. The Mexican collections include co-occurring collignoniceratids, known from as far north as Montana, and Tethyan euomphaloceratines and coilopoceratids. One species, Puzosia (Puzosia) serratocarinata, is new.

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