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GEOL. SOC. A M . , M E M O I R S T O Y A N O W , PL. 1
The Geological Society of America Memoir 38
L O W E R CRETACEOUS STRATIGRAPHY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA
July 8, 1949
Made in United States of
America
PRINTED B Y W A V E R L Y PEES8. INC BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
PUBLISHED B Y THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP AMERICA
Address All Communications to The Geological Society of America 419 West 117 Street, New York 27, N . Y .
The Memoir Series of The Geological Society of America is Made Possible Through the Bequest of Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, Jr.
CONTENTS
Page ABSTRACT
1
INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
2
CHAPTER 1.
GENERAL PART
4
Review of previous work Discovery of new faunas " Bisbee anticline Lowell formation General description Section A - A in the Ninety One Hills Analysis of the sequence in the type area Geological map and panoramic view of the Ninety One Hills area Methods in the field and in the laboratory Mural limestone Interpretation of paleontological stratigraphy Two sections in the Bisbee area Mural Hill Ridge section Black Knob Ridge section Eastward sections Westward sections. Boundary between the Aptian and the Albian Correlation with the Aptian-Albian sequence in the Caucasus Correlation with the sequence in the Quitman Mountains, Texas Correlation with the stratigraphic units of Texas The Malone controversy Malone facies Relation between the Malone and the Lower Cretaceous Trigoniae Remarks on ammonites Outline of paleogeography Appendix.—Note on Late Cretaceous strata in southeastern Arizona CHAPTER 2.
PALEONTOLOGICAL PART
61
Pelecypoda Family Nuculidae Family Parallelodontidae Family Pernidae Family Pteriidae Family Ostreidae Family Trigoniidae Shell terminology of Trigonia adopted in this paper Group of Trigoniae Pseudo-Quadratae Groups of Trigonia v-scripta and Trigonia vau Group of Trigonia abrufta Group of Trigonia excentrica Group of Trigonia aliformis Family Pectinidae Family Limidae Family Astartidae Family Caprinidae Family Unicardiidae Ammonoidea. . . t Family Parahoplitidae .
4 5 ' ° 8 8 14 18 19 20 20 23 23 26 27 29 31 35 37 39 41 44 45 48 50 58
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61 61 63 64 65 66 67 67 67 79 83 86 88 90 92 93 94 95 95 95
CONTENTS
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Page Subfamily Parahoplitinae Subfamily Acanthohoplitinae Subfamily Deshayesitinae Family Desmoceratidae Family Lyelliceratidae
121, 123, 124, 128, 135 — cited, 50, 67 — on Cheloniceratidae, 32 — on Malone ammonites, 41 Sphaerium, 60 Stanton, T. W., 5, 54, 59, 104, 135 •— on Trigonia stolleyi, 6 — on "Pecten stantoni (Hill)," 90 Stanton's topotype from Truncate Mound, 47 Stein, B., 3 Steinmann, G., 67, 135 — on Trigoniae, 46 Stenhoplites, 123 Stenzel, H. B., 3, 21 Stephenson, L. W., 3, 93, 135 Stoliczkaia, 1, 53, 58, 95, 128 dispar, 36, 38, 128 — zone, 31, 36, 38 dorsetensis, 128, 129
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Stoliczkaia (Cont'd.) excenlrumbilicala, 36, 129, 156; PI. 26, figs. 5-6 — in Patagonia group, 30 — Mountains, 6 — Neumayr, 128 — new forms, 31 patagonica, 36, 128, 129, 156; PI. 26, figs. 3-4 scotti, 36,129; PI. 26, figs. 7-8 — in Patagonia Mountains, 2 — zone, 53 Stolley, E., 31, 32, 55, 135 — on Clansayes, 31 Stoyanow, A., 6, 135, 136 — on Patagonia group, 30 Stoyanow, V., 3 subnodosocostatum, zone, 34 Sycamore Creek, Texas, 28 Takahashi, 63 Taliaferro, N. L., 135 "Tardefurcata Schichten" of Germany, 32 tardefurcata, zone, 34 Tenney, J. B., 135 Tethyan-Atlantic, connection, 58 — faunas in Arizona, 55 Tetragramma? sp., 16 Texas, 22, 32, 42, 56, 58 — ammonite fauna of, 1 — Cretaceous strata, 21 — East Mexican faunas in Arizona, 55 — region, 50 — southwestern, 22 — species, gradual infiltration, 21, 56 — stratigraphic units, correlated, 40, 41 Thetironia caticasica, 38 Thompson, F. O., 2 Tobler, A., 133 Tombstone, 29, 53 — Cretaceous outlier, 29 — district, 29 — Mesozoic section, 29 tovilense, subzone, 34 Transcaspian Region, 2, 17, 35 Irautscholdi, subzone, 34 Travis Peak, 37, 39 — formation, 39 Trigonia, 17, 67, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146 — Bruguiere, 67 abrupta, 83, 84, 86 — group, 83 agrioensis, 86, 87 aliformis, 83, 88, 89
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L O W E R
CRETACEOUS
STRATIGRAPHY,
Trigonia Cont'd.) — group, 88 calderoni, 42, 44, 47, 81, 82, 144 — collected by Stanton, 81; PI. 14, figs. 1-2 — topotypes, 45 caudata, 88, 89 conocardiiformis, 80, 81, 82 cragini, 10, 16, 22, 47, 48, 80, 81, 82, 143, 144; PI. 13, figs. 6-10; PI. 14, fig. 3 — distribution, 13 — range, 18 — upper limit, 12 crenulata, 88 daedalea, 79 dubia, 79 dumblei, 46, 70, 77; PL 12, fig. 4 dunscombensis, 87 emoryi, 90 excentrica, 87 — group, 86 guildi, 16, 22, 46, 47, 69, 70, 73, 75, 142; PL 12, figs. 1-2 — distribution, 13 — range, 18 herzogi, 68, 69, 75 heterosculpta, 80 holubi, 68 hondaana, 76, 83 humboldi, 83, 84, 85 kitchini, 10, 16, 22, 48, 80, 82, 83, 144; PI. 14, figs. 4-10 — distribution, 13 — range, 18 — upper limit, 12, 16 laeviuscula, 87 lerchi, 86 lingonensis, 83 lorentii, 83, 85 maloneana, 74 — var., 74 mammillala, 68, 70 mearnsi, 1, 9, 17, 22, 27, 29, 30, 37, 39, 47, 57, 70, 78, 79, 89, 99, 142, 143; PL 12, figs. 5-6; PL 13, figs. 1-4 — distribution, 13 — range, 18 — type locality, 29 — zone, 17, 23, 39, 57 meyeri, 85 nodosa, 79 picunensis, 81 proscabra, 42 recurva, 80
SOUTHEASTERN
ARIZONA
Trigonia (Cont'd.) reesidei, 12, 19, 22, 27, 40, 58, 83, 84, 85, 86, 144, 145; PL 14, figs. 11-14; PL 15, figs. 1-3 — distribution, 13 — in Espinal grit, 15 — in Lancha, 14 — last recurrence, 15 — range, 18 resoluta, 16, 46, 70, 76, 77, 142; PL 12, fig. 3 — distribution, 13 — range, 18 rogersi, 83 saavedra, 23, 47, 70, 78, 143; PL 13, fig. 5 — distribution, 13 — range, 18 — sp. ex aliformis group, 89, 146; PL 16, figs. 1-3 — distribution, 13 steeruvitzii, Dumble on, 5 "steeruwitzi," Adkins on, 5 stolleyi, 1, 5, 6, 17, 22, 23, 39, 57, 88, 89, 90, 145; PL 15, figs. 9-11 — distribution, 13 — in Glen Rose, 22 — in Guadalupe Canyon, 29 — range, 18 sulcataria, 83 taffi, 77, 79 — auctorum, 1 — Cragin, misinterpreted, 46 tocaimaana, 90 transitoria, 46, 68, 69, 73, 75 — group, 43 — paired costallae in, 69 — var. curacoensis, 46 — var. quintucoensis, 46, 69 — var. vacaensis, 46 undulala, 83 v-scripta, 79 vau, 79, 80 vyschetzkii, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 69, 70, 71 75, 77 — Cragin, emend., 73 -— Cragin, lectotype, 45 — Cragin (part), 72 — status, 70 — topotypes, 45 weaveri, 16, 19, 23, 86, 87, 88, 145; PL 15, figs. 4-8 — distribution, 13 — range, 18 Trigoniae, 6, 16
INDEX
Trigoniae (Cont'd.) — of abrupta and excentrica groups in Arizona, 21 — of aliformis group, 21 — in Sonora, 52 — Cretaceous of Jurassic aspect, 2 —• Cretaceous, in Texas, 21 — Jurassic, at Malone, 2, 21 — pseudo-quadrate, 21, 27, 28 — in Sonora, 44 — scabroid, 27, 28 — of v-scripta—vau groups, 1, 21, 44, 48 trinitensis, zone, 23 Trinitoceras, 22, 57, 79 — below Orbitolina texana zone, 17 rex, 37, 57 Trinity division, 5 — group, Texas, 5 Tropaeum bowerbanki, subzone, 35 Tschemyschewia, 55 Tucson, 1, 5, 29 Turilella sp. cf. serialim-granulati, 5 Tusonimo linestone, 12 — recurrence of ammonites, 14 Uhlig, V., 43, 134, 136 — on Malone age, 41 — on similarity of Trigoniae, 44 "Uhligella" aff. walleranti, 51 Umia, 70 Unicardiidae, 95
Unicardium, 15, 16, 95 — sp., 9, 95, 146; PI. 16, fig. 4 Unio, 59, 60 Upper Cretaceous deposits, 59 V-Scripla—vau groups, 42, 79 — interpretation of species, 47 Valanginian, 42, 43 Venezuela, 56 Viviparus, 59 Vola irregularis, 91 Washita, 53 — time, 31 Weaver, C. E., 43, 65, 81, 87, 136 — on Argentina Trigoniae, 42, 46 weissi, zone, 34 Weller, S., 91, 136 Western communication, 58 Whetstone Mountains, 60 Whitfield, R. P., 91, 136 Whitney, F. W., 3 Wilson, E. D . , 3, 6, 29, 131 Winton, W. M., 131 Winwood addition, 23, 24 Woodring, W . P., 28, 136 Woods, H., 61, 62, 136 — on Acila, 14 Yagi, 63 Zittel, C , 96