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The rudist fauna of the Cárdenas Formation, Maastrichtian, San Luis Potosí State, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Jose Maria Pons ,
Enric Vicens ,
Angélica Oviedo ,
Javier Aguilar ,
Pedro García-Barrera  and
Gloria Alencáster
Jose Maria Pons
Affiliation:
Departament de Geologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain, ;
Enric Vicens
Affiliation:
Departament de Geologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain, ;
Angélica Oviedo
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Mexico,
Javier Aguilar
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Linares, N. L., Mexico,
Pedro García-Barrera
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico,
Gloria Alencáster
Affiliation:
Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico,
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Abstract

A Maastrichtian rudist fauna composed of the radiolitids Biradiolites aguilerae Böse, B. Cárdenasensis Böse, Huasteca ojanchalensis (Myers), Tampsia floriformis Myers, and Trechmannites rudissimus (Trechmann), the hippuritids Caribbea muellerriedi (Vermunt) and Praebarrettia sparcilirata (Whitfield) sensu lato, and the plagioptychids Coralliochama gbohemi Böse and Mitrocaprina tschoppi (Palmer) is described from the Cárdenas Formation in San Luis Potosí State, Mexico. Abundant fossil material and excellent preservation of a number of specimens allowed observation of both the internal and external shell characters and their ontogenetic and eco-phenotypic variability. The description of some hitherto insufficiently known species has been enhanced and/or completed, making easier their subsequent identification and allowing their unequivocal generic assignation. Two new genera, Huasteca and Trechmannites, are proposed for two already known species of radiolitids. The Cárdenas Formation exhibits a continuously exposed sequence in the vicinity of Cárdenas. Thus, precise stratigraphic location of all fossil localities and their rudist associations, ranging from the early to the early late Maastrichtian, has been possible.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 87 , Issue 4 , July 2013 , pp. 726 - 754
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