Journal of Paleontology; November 2006; v. 80; no. 6;
p. 1142-1151; DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2006)80[1142:CCFPA]2.0.CO;2
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CISURALIAN CEPHALOPODS FROM PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA
NORA SABATTINI1,
ALBERTO C. RICCARDI1 and
MARÍA ALEJANDRA PAGANI2
1 Departamento Científico de Paleozoología Invertebrados de la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, <nsabatti{at}museo.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar>, <riccardi{at}museo.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar>
2 Museo Paleontológico "Egidio Feruglio," Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Av. Fontana 140, U9100GYO Trelew, Chubut, Argentina, <apagani{at}mef.org.ar>
Upper Paleozoic Cephalopoda of west-central Patagonia are revised, based on reexamination of all available specimens and of most localities in Chubut Province, Argentina. Nautiloidea Orthocerida are represented by Sueroceras irregulare Riccardi and Sabattini, S.? chubutense (Closs), Sueroceras sp., and Mooreoceras zalazarense Sabattini and Riccardi and Pseudorthoceratidae gen. and sp. indeterminate; Nautilida by Amosiceras reticulatum new genus and species; and Ammonoidea Goniatitida by Glaphyrites taboadai new species and Glaphyrites sp. This fauna belongs to the Cisuralian Sueroceras irregulare and Mooreoceras zalazarense assemblage zones.
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