Middle Campanian ammonites and inoceramids from the Wolfe City Sand in northeastern Texas

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The middle Campanian Wolfe City Sand in northeastern Texas yields a distinctive ammonite and inoceramid fauna with Patagiosites sp., Placenticeras sp., Hoplitoplacenticeras (Hoplitoplacenticeras) minor n. sp., Baculites mclearni Landes, 1940, Trachyscaphites spiniger (Schlüter, 1872) porchi (Adkins, 1929), Inoceramus (Cordiceramus) azerbaidjanensis Aliev, 1939, and I. (Endocostea) balticus Boehm, 1907. The last-named four species allow a direct correlation with the Baculites mclearni zone of the Western Interior of the United States. The base of this zone has been dated at 79.9 ± 3.2/79.2 ± 1.6 Ma on the basis of K/Ar determinations on biotite from a bentonite. Inoceramus azerbaidjanensis is also known from the Campanian of the U.S.S.R. in Azerbaidjan (where the species was first described), western Turkemenia, Georgia, the northern Caucasus, the Crimea, and Donbass.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Middle Campanian ammonites and inoceramids from the Wolfe City Sand in northeastern Texas
Series title Journal of Paleontology
DOI 10.1017/S0022336000021181
Volume 67
Issue 1
Year Published 1993
Language English
Publisher Paleontological Society
Description 12 p.
First page 71
Last page 82
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