The bivalve Anopaea (Inoceramidae) from the Upper Jurassic-lowermost Cretaceous of Mexico

Zell, Patrick; Crame, J. Alistair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5027-9965; Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang; Beckmann, Seija. 2015 The bivalve Anopaea (Inoceramidae) from the Upper Jurassic-lowermost Cretaceous of Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 60. 92-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2015.03.004

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Abstract/Summary

In Mexico, the Upper Jurassic to lowermost Cretaceous La Casita and coeval La Caja and La Pimienta formations are well-known for their abundant and well-preserved marine vertebrates and invertebrates. The latter include conspicuous inoceramid bivalves of the genus Anopaea not formally described previously from Mexico. Anopaea bassei (Lecolle de Cantú, 1967), Anopaea cf. stoliczkai (Holdhaus, 1913), Anopaea cf. callistoensis Crame and Kelly, 1995 and Anopaea sp. are rare constituents in distinctive Tithonian–lower Berriasian levels of the La Caja Formation and one Tithonian horizon of the La Pimienta Formation. Anopaea bassei was previously documented from the Tithonian of central Mexico and Cuba, while most other members of Anopaea described here are only known from southern high latitudes. The Mexican assemblage also includes taxa which closely resemble Anopaea stoliczkai from the Tithonian of India, Indonesia and the Antarctic Peninsula, and Anopaea callistoensis from the late Tithonian to ?early Berriasian of the Antarctic Peninsula. Our new data expand the palaeogeographical distribution of the high latitude Anopaea to the Gulf of Mexico region and substantiate faunal exchange, in the Late Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous, between Mexico and the Antarctic Realm.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2015.03.004
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - ) > Environmental Change and Evolution
ISSN:	08959811
Additional Keywords:	Anopaea; Late Jurassic; earliest Cretaceous; La Caja/La Pimienta formations; Palaeobiogeography
Date made live:	31 Mar 2015 08:18 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/510516

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2015.03.004

Programmes:

BAS Programmes > Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - ) > Environmental Change and Evolution

ISSN:

08959811

Additional Keywords:

Anopaea; Late Jurassic; earliest Cretaceous; La Caja/La Pimienta formations; Palaeobiogeography

Date made live:

31 Mar 2015 08:18 +0 (UTC)