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Ammonite correlation of the uppermost Campanian of Western Europe, the US Gulf Coast, Atlantic Seaboard and Western Interior, and the numerical age of the base of the Maastrichtian

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If the base of the Maastrichtian Stage is placed at the first appearance of the belemnite Belemnella lanceolata in Western Europe, the boundary between the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages in the US Western Interior may lie between the zones of Baculites jenseni and Baculites eliasi. The B. jenseni Zone can be shown to be latest Campanian in age on the basis of the occurrence of Nostoceras (N.) hyatti Stephenson and Jeletzkytes nodosus (Owen), which range to the top of the Campanian in the ...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Earth Sciences
Role:
Author
Journal:
Geological Magazine
Volume:
129
Issue:
4
Pages:
497-500
Publication date:
1992-01-01
ISSN:
0016-7568
Language:
English
Pubs id:
pubs:81915
UUID:
uuid:c6b866bd-22bf-4380-ae1d-508caf48b7d6
Local pid:
pubs:81915
Source identifiers:
81915
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2013-02-20

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