Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (Mar 2004)

INNER WHORLS OF <em>GREGORYCERAS</em> (AMMONITINA, PELTOCERATINAE) AS THE FIRST OCCURRENCE OF THE GENUS IN MEXICO

  • ANA BERTHA VILLASEÑOR,
  • FEDERICO OLÓRIZ,
  • ISABEL LÓPEZ-PALOMINO

DOI
https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/6295
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 110, no. 1

Abstract

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Two nuclei of Gregoryceras are described as the first record of the genus in Mexico. The occurrence in Mexico of the ubiquitous Tethyan genus Gregoryceras is interpreted as related to a major flooding episode that affected neritic shelves in the southern North-American plate.