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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

W. A. Cobban  and
W. J. Kennedy
W. A. Cobban
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, Mail Stop 919, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225
W. J. Kennedy
Affiliation:
Geological Collections, University Museum, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW, U.K.
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Abstract

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.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 67 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 71 - 82
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