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Cretaceous ammonites from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Otto Renz ,
Daniel Bernoulli  and
Lukas Hottinger
Otto Renz
Affiliation:
(Deceased) Museum of Natural History, Augustinergasse 2, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland
Daniel Bernoulli
Affiliation:
Geology Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Lukas Hottinger
Affiliation:
Geological Institute of Basel University, Bernoullistrasse 32, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Abstract

Mesozoic deep-water sediments occurring on the island of Fuerteventura were deposited near the continent–ocean boundary adjacent to the African margin. During Tertiary times, they were uplifted and intruded by ultramafic, mafic and alkaline plutons and dykes and are now exposed as part of the ‘Basal Complex’ of the island. These sediments reflect more or less continuous hemipelagic and turbiditic deposition during most of Jurassic and Cretaceous times. Two ammonites, described in this paper, document a Valanginian to Hauterivian age for part of the Lower Cretaceous siliciclastic turbidites, and a latest Albian to early Cenomanian age for part of the Upper Cretaceous hemipelagic limestones.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 129 , Issue 6 , November 1992 , pp. 763 - 769
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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