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

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. jensen...

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Main Authors: Kennedy, W, Cobban, W, Scott, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1992
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description 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 well-dated Vistula Valley sequence in Poland, but disappear before the first appearance of B. lanceolata. So defined the numerical age of the Maastrichtian lies between 73.2±0.7 and 70.1±0.7 Ma, based upon dates from high temperature chronometers in bentonites in the Western Interior. -Authors
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spelling oxford-uuid:c6b866bd-22bf-4380-ae1d-508caf48b7d62022-03-27T06:39:59ZAmmonite 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 MaastrichtianJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:c6b866bd-22bf-4380-ae1d-508caf48b7d6EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford1992Kennedy, WCobban, WScott, GIf 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 well-dated Vistula Valley sequence in Poland, but disappear before the first appearance of B. lanceolata. So defined the numerical age of the Maastrichtian lies between 73.2±0.7 and 70.1±0.7 Ma, based upon dates from high temperature chronometers in bentonites in the Western Interior. -Authors
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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
title 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
title_full 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
title_fullStr 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
title_full_unstemmed 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
title_short 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
title_sort 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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