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The So-called Malone Jurassic Formation in Texas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

F. L. Kitchin
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The known cephalopod faunas of Upper Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous age in South America were reviewed by the late Professor V. Uhlig from the standpoint of their general character and relationships. In Mexico and in Texas certain lamellibranch species occur as part of a faunal development which Uhlig regarded as having an intimate connexion with the assemblages of the South Andean Jurassic-Cretaceous province. He remarked upon the regional unity shown by the faunas of Upper Jurassic age described by C. Burckhardt from the Mazapil district in Mexico, by Castillo and Aguilera from San Luis Potosi (Mexico), and by Cragin from the Malone district in Texas. The fossils described, from San Luis Potosi and from Cragin's so-called Malone Jurassic Formation comprise some bivalve shells, particularly Trigoniae, which resemble closely certain characteristic forms found in undoubted Lower Cretaceous deposits in South America, and also in the Africano-Indian province, of Krenkel's nomenclature.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 63 , Issue 10 , October 1926 , pp. 454 - 469
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