Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-f46jp Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-13T21:36:33.633Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The rudist Amphitriscoelus (Bivalvia-Hippuritacea) in the lower Cretaceous of southwestern Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Gloria Alencaster  and
Jerjes Pantoja-Alor
Gloria Alencaster
Affiliation:
Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 México, D.F. México
Jerjes Pantoja-Alor
Affiliation:
Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 México, D.F. México
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The emended descriptions of the genus Amphitriscoelus and the species A. waringi Harris and Hodson are given, and a new species is proposed (A. pluriloculata). These rudist bivalves are derived from a thick Lower Cretaceous sequence of carbonate sediments interlayered with siliciclastic, volcaniclastic, and volcanic rocks in southwestern Mexico, near Huetamo, in the State of Michoacan. The species belong to a recently discovered rich fauna containing other rudists, nerineid gastropods, orbitolinid foraminifers, and calcareous algae. The fauna shows a close affinity with the Amphitriscoelus fauna of northern South America. Similar assemblages are also present in Texas, Cuba and other Mexican localities. The wide distribution of the fauna allows interpretation of paleogeographic relations among all the regions as well as interpretation of paleoecological similarities. The existence of an homogeneous large faunistic province during the Early Cretaceous is suggested.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 70 , Issue 3 , May 1996 , pp. 399 - 407
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Aguilera, J. G., Ordoñez, E., and Buelna, R. J. 1897. Bosquejo geológico de México. Instituto Geológico de México Boletín 4-6, 272 p.Google Scholar
Alencaster, G. 1987. Moluscos bentónicos de la mitad meridional de México durante el Cretácico. Sociedad Mexicana de Paleontología Revista, 1:1–23.Google Scholar
Alencaster, G. 1990. Los rudistas: origen, diversificación, provincialismo en Eurasia y en América y extincion. Sociedad Mexicana de Paleontologia Revista 3:47–65.Google Scholar
Alencaster, G., and Pantoja-Alor, J. 1986. Coalcomana ramosa (Boehm) (Bivalvia-Hippuritacea) del Albiano temprano del Cerro de Tuxpan, Jalisco. Sociedad Geológica Mexicana Boletín 47:33–46.Google Scholar
Alencaster, G., and Pantoja-Alor, J. 1992. Amphitriscoelus, género de rudista (Bivalvia-Hippuritacea) en el Cretácico Inferior de la región de Huetamo, Michoacán. Sociedad Geológica Mexicana. Abastracts 11th Convención Geológica Nacional, Veracruz:9–10.Google Scholar
Alencaster, G., and Pantoja-Alor, J. 1993. Early-Aptian rudists from the Huetamo region, Southwestern Mexico. Third International Conference on Rudists, Mexico D.F., Proceedings, 4.Google Scholar
Alencaster, G., and Cherchi, A., Pantoja-Alor, J., Pons, J. M., and Schroeder, R. 1992. Presenza di Palorbitolina lenticularis e di Amphitriscoelus nell Aptiano inferiore del Messico Settentrionale; consequence paleobiogeografiche nel dominio caraibico. Fifth Symposium on Ecology and Paleoecology of Benthic Communities, Rome, Abstracts:3.Google Scholar
Buitrón, B. E. 1981. Gasterópodos del Cretácico Temprano de México occidental y sus implicaciones paleobiogeográficas. Segundo Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología. Porto Alegre, Brasil, Anales:343–357.Google Scholar
Buitrón, B. E. 1986. Gasterópodos del Cretácico (Aptiano-Albiano inferior) del Cerro de Tuxpan, Jalisco. Sociedad Geológica Mexicana Boletín, 47:17–31.Google Scholar
Buitrón, B. E. 1993. Mollusk gastropods in an Early Cretaceous rudists-bearing formation of Jalisco, SW Mexico. Third International Conference on Rudists, Mexico D.F., Proceedings:10–11.Google Scholar
Burckhardt, C. 1930. Etude synthétique sur le Mésozoique Mexicaine. Societé Paléontologique Suisse Memoires, 49, 50, 280 p.Google Scholar
Campa, M. F. 1977. Estudio tectónico del Prospecto Altamirano-Huetamo. Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX IGPR-146), Unpublished, 94 p.Google Scholar
Campa, M. F., and Coney, J. P. 1983. Tectono-stratigraphic terranes and mineral resources distribution in Mexico. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 26:1040–1050.Google Scholar
Carrasco, V. B. 1973. Catodoluminiscencia y diagénesis de rudistas dolomitizados y su relación con desarrollos de porosidad. Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo Revista 5:5–14.Google Scholar
Coogan, A. H. 1973. New rudists from the Albian and Cenomanian of Mexico and South Texas. Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo Revista, 5:51–83.Google Scholar
Coogan, A. H. 1977. Early and Middle Cretaceous Hippuritacea (Rudists) of the Gulf Coast, p. 32–70. In Bebout, D. G. and Loucks, R. G. (eds.), Cretaceous Carbonates of Texas and Mexico. Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, Report of Investigations, 89.Google Scholar
Cserna, Z. 1978. Notas sobre la geología de la región comprendida entre Iguala, Ciudad Altamirano y Temascaltepec, Estados de Guerrero y México. Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, 4th Convención Geológica Nacional, Libro-guía Excursión a Tierra Caliente, 25 p.Google Scholar
Dechaseaux, C., Perkins, B. F., and Cox, L. R. 1969. Family Caprinidae d'Orbigny, 1850, p. N787–799. In Moore, R. C. (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part N, Mollusca 6. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.Google Scholar
García-Barrera, P. 1993. Toucasia hancockensis Whitney (Hippuritacea-Requienidae) in Southwestern Mexico. Third International Conference on Rudists, México D.F., Proceedings:28.Google Scholar
García-Barrera, P., and Pantoja-Alor, J. 1991. Equinoides del Albiano tardío de la Formación Mal Paso, región de Chumbítaro, Estados de Michoacán y Guerrero. Sociedad Mexicana de Paleontología Revista, 4:23–41.Google Scholar
Gomez-Luna, M. E., Contreras-Moreno, B., Guerrero-Suastegui, M., and Ramirez-Espinosa, J. 1991. Amonites del Valanginiano superior y Barremiano de la Formación San Lucas en el area de Huetamo, Mich. Sociedad Mexicana de Paleontología, Abstract Segundo Congreso Nacional de Paleontología: 105.Google Scholar
González-Arreola, C., Pantoja-Alor, J., Oloriz, F., Villaseñor, A. G., and García-Barrera, P.In press. New lithological profile of lower Aptian age with the presence of Pseudohaploceras liptoviense (Zeuschner) in Southern Mexico. Geobios.Google Scholar
Gray, J. E. 1848. On the arrangement of the Brachiopoda, Magazine Natural History Annals, 2:435–440.Google Scholar
Hall, C. E. 1903. Notes on a geological section from Iguala to San Miguel Totolapa, State of Guerrero, Mexico. Memorias de la Sociedad Científica Antonio Alzate, 13:327–335.Google Scholar
Harris, G. D., and Hodson, F. 1922. The Rudists of Trinidad. Paleontographica Americana, 1:119–162.Google Scholar
Hedberg, H. D., and Pyre, A. 1944. Stratigraphy of northeastern Anzoástegui, Venezuela. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 28:1–28.Google Scholar
Kauffman, E. 1973. Cretaceous Bivalvia. p. 353–383. In Hallam, A. (ed.), Atlas of Paleogeography, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company.Google Scholar
Kutassy, A. 1934. Pachyodonta Mesozoica, 200 p. In Quenstedt, W. (ed.), Fossilium Catalogus 1, Animalia. Pars 68.Google Scholar
Lugo-Hubp, J. 1990. El relieve de la República Mexicana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Geologia Revista, 9:82–111.Google Scholar
Mac Gillavry, H. J. 1937. Geology of the Province of Camagüey, Cuba; with revisional studies in Rudist Paleontology (mainly based upon collections from Cuba). Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Utrecht, Holland, 168 p.Google Scholar
Masse, J. P. 1987. Distribution et paléobiogéographie des plates-formes carbonatées de l'Atlantique Central et du Domaine Caraibe a l'Aptien infěrieur: problemes paléogéographiques et paléocéanographiques. Geodinamica Acta (Paris), 1:263–271.Google Scholar
Masse, J. P., and Philip, J. 1986. L'évolution des rudistes au regard des principaux événements géologiques du Crétacé. Bulletin Centre Recherche Exploration Production Elf-Aquitaine, 10:437–456.Google Scholar
Masse, J. P., and Rossi, T. 1987. Le provincialisme Sud-Caraibe a l'Aptian Inferieur. Sa signification dans le cadre de l'évolution géodynamique du Domaine Caraibe et de l'Atlantique central. Cretaceous Research, 8:349–363.Google Scholar
Newell, N.D. 1965. Classification of the Bivalvia. American Museum Novitates, 2206, 25 p.Google Scholar
Orbigny, A. d'. 1850. Prodrome de Paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques et rayonnés, volume 2, Paris, 427 p.Google Scholar
Pantoja-Alor, J. 1959. Estudio geológico de reconocimiento de la región de Huetamo, Estado de Michoacán. Consejo de Recursos Naturales No Renovables Boletín, 50, 36 p.Google Scholar
Pantoja-Alor, J. 1990. Redefinición de las unidades estratigráficas de la secuencia mesozóica de la región Huetamo-Ciudad Altamirano, Estados de Michoacán y Guerrero. Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, 10th Convención Geológica Nacional, Abstracts:66.Google Scholar
Pantoja-Alor, J. 1993. Description of the localities visited in the fieldtrip B, p. 11–40, In Pantoja-Alor, J., Alencaster, G. and Gómez-Caballero, A. (eds.), Geology and Rudists communities of the Huetamo region, State of Michoacán, México. Third International Conference on Rudists México D.F. Guidebook.Google Scholar
Pantoja-Alor, J., Schroeder, R., Cherchi, A., Alencaster, G., and Pons, J. M. 1994. Fossil assemblages, mainly foraminifers and rudists from the early Aptian of Southwestern Mexico. Paleobiogeographical consequences for the Caribbean region. Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 9:211–219.Google Scholar
Paquier, V. 1905. Les Rudistes Urgoniens. Societé Géologique de France, Paléontologie, Memoire, 29:49–102.Google Scholar
Rojas, R., Skelton, P. W., and Iturralde-Vinent, M. 1992. Cuban rudist faunas revisited. Abstracts 13th Caribbean Geological Conference, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, 21.Google Scholar
Salazar, M. S. 1973. Prospecto Altamirano, area Huetamo. Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX IGPR-907). Unpublished, 93 p.Google Scholar
Scott, R. W. 1990. Models and stratigraphy of Mid-Cretaceous reef communities, Gulf of Mexico, p. 1–102. In Lidz, B. H. (ed.), Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology, 2. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.Google Scholar
Skelton, P. W. 1982. Aptian and Barremian Rudist Bivalves of the New World; some Old World similarities. Cretaceous Research, 3:145–153.Google Scholar
Sohl, N. F. 1971. North American Cretaceous biotic provinces delineated by gastropods, p. 1610–1630. In Yochelson, E. L. (ed.), Cretaceous Biogeography. North America Paleontological Convention, Chicago 1969, Proceedings L.Google Scholar
Sohl, N. F. 1987. Cretaceous gastropods: contrast between Tethys and the Temperate provinces. Presidential address. Journal of Paleontology, 61:1085–1111.Google Scholar