Skip to content Skip to navigation

Article: New ammonoid taxa from the Lower Cretaceous Giumal Formation of the Tethyan Himalaya (Northern India)

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 56
Part: 5
Publication Date: September 2013
Page(s): 991 1028
Author(s): Alexander Lukeneder, Thomas J. Suttner, Rufus J and Bertle
Addition Information

How to Cite

LUKENEDER, A., SUTTNER, T. J., J, R., , B. 2013. New ammonoid taxa from the Lower Cretaceous Giumal Formation of the Tethyan Himalaya (Northern India). Palaeontology56, 5, 991–1028.

Online Version Hosted By

Wiley Online Library
Get Article: Wiley Online Library [Pay-to-View Access] |

References

  • Aguirre-Urreta, M. B. and Riccardi, A. C. 1988. Albian heteromorphy ammonoids from southern Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Paleontology, 62 (4), 598–614.
  • Aguirre-Urreta, M. B., Mourges, F. A., Rawson, P. F., Bulot, L. G. and Jaillard, E. 2007. The Lower Cretaceous Chanarcillo and Neuquén Andean basins: ammonoid biostratigraphy and correlations. Geological Journal, 42, 143–173.
  • Alabushev, A. I. 1987. Distinctive features of the morphology of the North Pacific Cleoniceras representatives and their place in the system of the Albian ammonites (Hoplitidae). Palaeontological Journal, 21 (2), 128–130. [In Russian, translated in 1988].
  • Anderson, F. M. 1938. Lower Cretaceous in California and Oregon. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 16, 340 pp.
  • Arkad'ev, V. V. and Bogdanova, T. N. 2004. Genus Berriasella (Ammonoidea) and Ammonoid Zonation in the Berriasian of the Crimean Mountains. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, 12 (4), 367–379.
  • Autran, G. 1993. L'evolution de la marge nord-est provencale (Arc de Castellane) du Valanginien moyen à l'Hauterivien à travers l'analyse biostratigraphique des séries de la région de Peyroules: séries condensées, discontinuités et indices d'une tectogenese distensive. Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice, 10, 239 pp.
  • Avram, E. 1994. Lower cretaceous (Valanginian–Early Aptian) ammonite succession in the Svinita region (SW Rumania). Géologie Alpine, Mémoire. H.S., 20, 113–167.
  • Baraboshkin, E. J. 2002. Early Cretaceous seaways of the Russian platform and the problem of Boreal/Tethyan correlation. 39–78. In Michalík, J. (ed.). Tethyan/Boreal Cretaceous correlation. Mediterranean and Boreal Cretaceous paleobiogeographic areas in Central and Eastern Europe. Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 291 pp.
  • Baraboshkin, E. J. and Mikhailova, I. A. 2000. New and poorly known Valanginian ammonites from south-west Crimea. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Science de la Terre, 70, 89–120.
  • Baud, A., Arn, R., Bugnon, P., Crisinel, A., Dolivo, E., Escher, A., Hammerschlag, J. G., Marthaler, M., Masson, H., Steck, A. and Tièche, J. C. 1982. Le contact Gondwana-Peri-Gondwana dans le Zanskar oriental (Ladakh, Himalaya). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de la France, 24, 341–361.
  • Bengtson, P. and Kakabadze, M. V. 1999. Biogeography of Cretaceous ammonites – a review of procedures and problems. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palontologie, Abhandlungen, 212, 221–239.
  • Bertle, R. J. and Suttner, T. J. 2005. New biostratigraphic data from the Chikkim Formation (Cretaceous, Tethys Himalaya, India). Cretaceous Research, 26, 882–894.
  • Bhargava, O. N. and Bassi, U. K. 1998. Geology of Spiti-Kinnaur Himachal Himalaya. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, 124, 212 pp.
  • Bhargava, O. N. and Tangri, S. K. 1996. Late Jurassic-early Cretaceous Lingshi Formation, Bhutan Himalaya. 113–119. In Sahni, A. (ed.). Cretaceous stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments. Memoir Geological Society of India, 37, Geological Society of India, Bangalore, 447 pp.
  • Blanford, H. F. and Stoliczka, F. 1865. The fossil cephalopoda of the Cretaceous Rocks of souther India. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Himalayan Fossils. Paleontologia Indica, 1865, 216 pp.
  • Blasco, G., Nullo, F. E. and Plosziewicz, J. 1980. El genero Colchidites DJANELIDZE, 1926, y la posicion estratigrafica del genero Hatchericeras Stanton, 1901 en la estancia Tucu-Tucu, provincial de Santa Cruz. Asociación Geológica Argentina, Revista, 35, 41–58.
  • BOGDANOVA, T. N., and Hoedemaeker, P. J. 2004. Barremian-early Albian Deshayesitidae, Oppeliidae, Desmoceratidae and Silesitidae of Colombia. Scripta Geologica, 128, 183–312.
  • Blasco, G. and Mikhailova, I. A. 1999. Origin and evolution of the family Deshayesitidae (Ammonoidea). Paleontological Journal, 33/5, 522–529. Translated from Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 55, 48–56. [In Russian].
  • Blasco, G. and Mikhailova, I. A. 2004. Origin, evolution and stratigraphic significance of the superfamily Deshayesitaceae STOYANOW, 1949. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturrelles de Belgique. Sciences de la Terre, 74, 189–243.
  • Bøgvad, R. and Rosenkrantz, A. 1934. Beitrge zur Kenntnis der unteren Kreide Östrgönlands. Meddelelser om Grønland, 93, 1–28.
  • Bordet, P., Colchen, M., Krummenacher, D., Le Fort, P., Mouterde, . R. and Remy, M. 1971. Recherches géologiques dans l'Himalaya du Népal, région de la Thakkhola. Editions du Centre National de laRrecherché Scientifique, 15, Paris, 279 pp.
  • Brunnschweiler, R. O. 1959. New Aconeceratinae (Ammonoidea) from the Albian and Aptian of Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Bulletin, 54, 1–19.
  • Bulot, L. G. 1995. Les formations à ammonites du Crétacé inférieur dans le SE de la France (Berriasien-Hauterivien): Biostratigraphie, paléontologie et cycles sédimentaires. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 398 pp.
  • Casey, R. 1960. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand. Palaeontographical Society (Monographs), part, 2, 41–118.
  • Casey, R. 1961. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand. Palaeontographical Society London (Monographs), part, 3, 119–216.
  • Casey, R. 1964. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand. Palaeontographical Society London (Monographs), part, 5, 289–398.
  • Casey, R. 1966. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand. Palaeontographical Society London (Monographs), part, 7, 547–582.
  • Casey, R. 1980. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand. Palaeontographical Society London (Monographs), part, 9, 633–660.
  • Casey, R., Bayliss, H. M. and Simpson, M. I. 1998. Observations on the lithostratigraphy and ammonite succession of the Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) Lower Greensand of Chale Bay, Isle of Wight. Cretaceous Research, 19, 511–535.
  • Chao King-Koo 1976. Jurassic and Cretaceous Ammonites from Mount Jolmo Lungma Region. In: a Report of scientific expedition in the Mount Jolmo Lungma Region (1966–1968). Palaeontology, 3, 503–545. [In Chinese].
  • Collignon, M. 1948. Faune Néocomienne des Couches à Criocères de Belohasifaka, Cercle de Sitampiky, Madagascar. Annales Géologiques du Service des Mines, 15, 55–83.
  • Collignon, M. 1949. Recherches sur les faunes Albiennes de Madagascar. I. L'Albien d'Ambarimaninga. Annales Géologiques du Service des Mines, 16, 1–128.
  • Collignon, M. 1962. Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites) (Berriasien, Valanginien, Hauterivien, Barremien). Service Géologique Tananarive, 8, 176–214.
  • Collignon, M. 1963. Atlas des fossils caractéristiques des Madagascar (Ammonites). 10, Albien. Service Géologique Tananarive, 184 pp.
  • Collignon, M. and Razafimbelo, E. 1964. La limite Jurassique-Crétacé à l'Est de tsaramandroso (feuille Tsramandrosos – Madagascar). Comptes Rendues de la Semaine Gélogique, 1964, 49–51.
  • Company, M. 1985. La subzona de Verrucosum (Valanginiense Superior) en el Barranco de La Querola (SE de Espana). Mediterránea, Serie Geologica, 4, 113–127.
  • Company, M. 1987. Los Ammonites del Valanginiense del sector oriental de las Cordilleras Béticas (SE de Espana). Tesis Doctoral, Universidad de Granada, 294 pp.
  • Corfield, R. I., Watts, A. B. and Searle, M. P. 2005. Subsidence history of the north Indian continental margin, Zanskar, Ladakh Himalaya, NW India. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 162, 135–146.
  • Day, R. W. 1974. Aptian ammonites from the Eromanga and Surat Basins. Geological Survey of Queensland (360), Palaeontological Papers, 34, 1–19.
  • Diener, C. 1895. Ergebnisse einer geologischen Espedition in den central-Himalaya von Johar, Hundés und Painkhanda. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 62, 533–608.
  • Dimitrova, N. 1967. Les fossiles de Bulgarie IV. Crétacé inférieur. Cephalopoda (Nautiloidea et Ammonitina). Académie Bulgare des Sciences, Sofia, 424 pp.
  • Doguzhaeva, L. A. and Mikhailova, I. A. 2002. The jaw apparatus of the eheteromorphic ammonite Australiceras whitehouse, 1926 (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) from the Aptian of the Volga Region. Doklady Biological Sciences, 382, 38–40 (translated from Doklydy Akademii Nauk). [In Russian].
  • Enay, R. 2009. Les faunes d′ammonites de l′Oxfordien au Tithonien et la biostratigraphie des Spiti-Shales (Callovien supérieur-Tithonien) de Thakkhola, Népal Central. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie Lyon, 166, 246 pp.
  • Etheridge, R. 1909. Lower Cretaceous fossils from the sources of the Barcoo, Ward and Nive Rivers South Central Queensland. Part 2, Cephalopoda. Records of the Australian Museum, 7, 135–165.
  • Ettachfini, M. 2004. Les Ammonites Néocomiennes dans l'Atlas Atlantique (Maroc). Biostratigraphie, Paléontologie, Paléobiogéographie et Paléoécologie. Actes du Laboratoire de Géologie Sédimentaire et Paléontologie de l'Université Paul-Sabatier. Tesis Doctorale, University of Marrakech. Strata, Série 2, 43, 1–225.
  • Fatmi, N. A. 1972. Stratigraphy of the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous rocks and Jurassic ammonites from northern areas of West Pakistan. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology, 20 (7), 299–380.
  • Fatmi, N. A. 1977. Neocomian ammonites from northern areas of Pakistan. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology, 28 (4), 257–296.
  • Fischer, J.-C. 2006. Révision Critique de la Paléontologie Francais d'Alcide d'Orbigny. Céphalopdes Crétacés, Vol. IV (including Edition Originale: 1840–1842). Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, Pays-bas, 291 pp.
  • Föllmi, K. B. 1989. Beschreibung neugefundener Ammonoidea aus der Vorarlberger Garschella-Formation (Aptian–Albian). Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 132, 105–189.
  • Fuchs, G. 1977. Traverse of Zanskar from Indus to the Valley of Kashmir a preliminary note. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 120 (2), 219–229.
  • Fuchs, G. 1979. On the geology of Western Ladakh. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 122 (2), 513–540.
  • Gaetani, M. and Garzanti, E. 1991. Multicyclic history of the northern India continental margin (nort-western) Himalaya. American Association of Petrolium Geologists, Bulletin, 75, 1427–1446.
  • Gaetani, M., Casnedi, R., Fois, E., Garzanti, E., Jadoul, F., Nicora, A. and Tintori, A. 1986. Stratigraphy of the Tethys Himalaya in Zanskar, Ladakh. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 91, 443–478.
  • Gaida, K. H., Kemper, E. and Zimmerle, W. 1978. Das Oberapt von Sarstedt und seine Tuffe. Geologisches Jahrbuch, A 45, 43–123.
  • Gansser, A. 1964. Geology of the Himalayas. Interscience Publishers, Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 289 pp.
  • Garzanti, E. 1992. Stratigraphy of the Early Cretaceous Giumal Group (Zanskar Range, Northern India). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 97 (3–4), 485–510.
  • Gibling, M. R., Gradstein, F. M., Kristiansen, I.-L., Nagy, J., Sarti, M. and Wiedmann, J. 1994. Early Cretaceous strata of Nepal Himalayas: conjugate margins and rift vulcanism during Gondwanan breakup. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 151, 269–290.
  • Gill, T. 1871. Arrangement of the families of mollusks. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 227, xvi + 49 p.
  • Glazunova, A. E. 1953. Aptian and Albian Ammonites from Kopet-dag, Little and Great Balkhan, and Mangyshlak. Institut zemnoi kory Leningradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, 156 pp.
  • Gradstein, F. M., Rad, U., Gibling, M. R., Jansa, L. F., Kaminski, M. A., Kristiansen, I.-L., Ogg, J. G., Röhl, U., Sarti, M., Thurow, J. W., Westermann, G. E. G. and Wiedmann, J. 1992. Stratigraphy and depositional history of the Mesozoic continental margin of Central Nepal. Geologisches Jahrbuch, B 77, 3–141.
  • Gradstein, F. M., Ogg, J. G. and Smith, A. G. eds. 2004. A Geological Time Scale 2004. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 589 pp.
  • Gradstein, F. M., Ogg, J. G., Schmitz, M. D. and Ogg, G. M. eds. 2012. A Geological Time Scale 2012, Vol. 1 + 2. Elsevier BV, Amsterdam, 1144 pp.
  • Gray, J. E. 1832. Illustrations of Indian Zoology, Vol. 2., Adolphus Richter and Co, London, 202 pp.
  • Griesbach, C. L. 1891. Geology of the Central Himálayas. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, 23, 232 pp.
  • Hay, W. W., Deconto, R. M., Wold, C. N., Wilson, K. M., Voigt, S., Schulz, M., Wold-Rossby, A., Dullo, W.-C., Ronov, A. B., Balukhovsky, A. N. and Söding, E. 1999. Alternative global Cretaceous paleogeopgraphy. In Barrera, E. and Johnson, C. C. (eds). Evolution of the Cretaceous Ocean Climate System. Geological Society of America, Special Paper, 332, 1–47.
  • Heinze, M. 1996. Palobiogeographie jurassischer Muschelfaunen: Beziehung zwischen Süd- und Nordrand der Tethys. Palontologische Zeitschrift, 70, 97–128.
  • Helmstaedt, H. 1969. Eine Ammoniten-Fauna aus den Spiti-Schiefern von Muktinath in Nepal. Zitteliana, 1, 63–88.
  • Hoedemaeker, P. 1982. Ammonite biostratigraphy of the uppermost Tithonian, Berriasian, and lower Valanginian along the Rio Argos (Caravaca, SE Spain). Scripta Geologica, 65, 1–81.
  • Horwarth, M. K. 1992. Tithonian and Berriasian ammonites from the Chia Gara Formation in Northern Iraq. Palaeontology, 35 (3), 597–655.
  • Howlett, P. J. 1989. Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous cephalopods of eastern Alexander Island, Antarctica. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 41, 72 pp.
  • Immel, H., Seyed-Emami, K. and Afshar-Harb, A. 1997. Kreide-Ammoniten aus dem iranischen Teil des Koppeh-Dagh (NE-Iran). Zitteliana, 21, 159–190.
  • Jack, R. L. and Etheridge, R. 1892. The Geology and Paleontology of Queensland and New Guinea. Geological Survey of Queensland Publications, Brisbane and London, 768 pp.
  • Jacob, C. 1908. Etude sur quelques Ammonites du Crétace Moyen. Memoires de la Societe de Geologique de France, Paleontologie, 38, 1–64.
  • Jafar, S. A. 1996. The evolution of marine Cretaceous basins of India: calibration with nannofossil Zones. 121–134. In Sahni, A. (ed.). Cretaceous stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments. Memoir Geological Society of India, 37, Geological Society of India, Bangalore, 447 pp.
  • Kakabadze, M. V. 1977. New and little known ancloceratids from Caucasus. Trudy Geologicheskoe Instituta an GSSR, Novaya Seriya, 58, 128–147. [In Russian].
  • Kakabadze, M. V. 1981. Ancyloceratids of the south of the USSR and their stratigraphical significance). Trudy Gelogicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk GSSR, 71, 195 pp. [In Russian].
  • Kakabadze, M. V. and Hoedemaeker, P. H. J. 1997. New and less known Barremian-Albian ammonites from Colombia. Scripta Geologica, 114, 57–117.
  • Kakabadze, M. V., Hoedemaeker, P. H. J., Bogdanova, T. N. and Shirikadze, M. Z. 2004. On the Barremian-Early Albian biogeography (by ammonites) of Colombia. Scripta Geologica, 128, 515–558.
  • Kazansky, P. A. 1914. Description of collections of cephalopods from Cretaceous of Dagestan. Istv. Tomsk Tekhnologia Institute, 32, 1–128. [In Russian].
  • Kelemen, P. B. and Sonnenfeld, M. D. 1983. Stratigraphy, structure, petrology and local tectonics, Central Ladakh, NW Himalaya. Schweizerische mineralogische und petrographische Mitteilungen, 63, 267–287.
  • Kelly, R. A. S. and Witham, A. G. 1999. Deshayesitid ammonites from the Lower Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) of North-East Greenland. Scripta Geologica, 3, 83–95.
  • Kemper, E. 1967. Die lteste Ammoniten-Fauna im Aptium Nordwestdeutschlands. Palontologische Zeitschrift, 41/3–4, 119–131.
  • Kemper, E. 1976. Geologischer Führer durch die Grafschaft Bentheim und die angrenzenden Gebiete mit einem Abriss der emslndischen Unterkreide. Das Bentheimer Land, 64, 5–206.
  • Kemper, E. 1982. Die Ammoniten des spten Apt und frühen Alb Nordwestdeutschlands. 553–577. In Kemper, E. (ed.). Das spte Apt und frühe Alb Nordwestdeutschlands. Geologisches Jahrbuch, A 65, Hannover, 703 pp.
  • Kennedy, W. J. and Klinger, H. C. 1975. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. Introduction, stratigraphy. Bullerin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology), 25, 265–315.
  • Kennedy, W. J. and Klinger, H. C. 1979. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite Superfamily Haplocerataceae Zittel, 1884. Annals of the South African Museum, 77 (6), 85–121.
  • Kennedy, W. J. and Klinger, H. C. 1986. Upper Barremian Heteroceratinae (Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea) from Patagonia and Zululand, with comments on the systematics and subfamily. Annals of the South African Museum, 96 (8), 315–358.
  • Kennedy, W. J. and Klinger, H. C. 1992. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. Barremian representatives of the ammonite family Ancyloceratidae Gill, 1871. Annals of the South African Museum, 101 (5), 71–138.
  • Kilian, W. 1889. Études paléontologiques sur les terrains secondaires et tertiaires de l'Andalousie. Le gisementtithonique de Fuente de los Frailes près de Cabra (province de Cordove). Mission d'Andalousie. Mémoires Presentes Pour Divers Savants à l'Academie des Sciences de l'Institut National de France, 30, 581–739.
  • Kilian, W. and Reboul, P. 1915. Contribution à l’étude des faunes paléocrétacées du Sud-Est de la France. I – La fauna de l'Aptien inférieur des environs de Montélimar (Drôme). Mémoires Pour Servir à l'Explication de la Carte Géologique Détailée de la France, 1–221.
  • Klein, J. 2005. Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia. Lower Cretaceous Ammonites 1. Perisphinctacea 1: Himalayitidae, Olcostephanidae, Holcodiscidae, Neocomitidae, Oosterellidae, 139, Blackhuys Publishers, Leiden, 496 pp.
  • Klein, J., Busnardo, R., Company, M., Delanoy, G., Kakabadze, M., Reboulet, S., Ropolo, P., Vašíček, Z. and Vermeulen, J. 2007. Bochiantitoidea, Protancyloceratoidea, Ancyloceratoidea, Ptychoceratoidea. In Riegraf, W. (ed.). Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia. Blackhuys Publishers, Leiden, 144, 381. p.
  • Klinger, H. C. and Kennedy, W. J. 1977. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand, South Africa, and Southern Mozambique. The Aptian Ancyloceratidae (Ammonoidea). Annals of the South African Museum, 73 (9), 215–359.
  • Koenen, A.v. 1902. Die Ammonitiden des Nordeutschen Neokom (Valanginien, Hauterivien, Barremien, Aptien). Abhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt und Bergakademie, NF, 24, 451 pp.
  • Kohli, G. and Sastri, V. V. 1956. On the age of the Chikkim Series. Journal of the Paleontological Society of India, v + 199–201.
  • Kotetichvili, E. V. 1988. Distribution globale des Ammonites éocrétacés du Caucase. 453–468. In Wiedmann, J. and Kullmann, J. (eds). Cephalopods Present and Past. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 765 pp.
  • Krishna, J. 1978. Uncoiled ammonites of Middle Albian (Lower Cretaceous) age from Habur Series, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, 23–24, 49–54.
  • Krishna, J. 1983. Callovian-Albian ammonoid stratigraphy and palaeobiologeography in the Indian Sub-Continent with special reference to the Tethys Himalaya. Himalayan Geology, 11, 43–72.
  • Krishna, J. 2000. An overview of the Recent Progress in the Cretaceous Stratigraphy of Kachchh Basin, India. 399–401. In Govindan, A. (ed.). Cretaceous Stratigraphy. An Update. Memoir Geological Society of India, 46, Bangalore, 426 pp.
  • Krishna, J. and Pathak, D. B. 1991. Ammonoid biochronology of the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridgian stage in Kachchh, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, 36, 1–13.
  • Krishna, J. and Pathak, D. B. 1995. Stratigraphic, biogeographic, and environmental signatures in the ammonoid bearing Jurassic-Cretaceous of Himalaya on the south margin of the Tethys. Himalayan Geology, 15, 189–205.
  • Krishna, J., Kumar, S. and Singh, I. B. 1982. Ammonoid stratigraphy of the Spiti Shale (Upper Jurassic), Tethys Himalaya, India, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palontologie. Monatshefte, 1982, 580–592.
  • Leanza, A. F. 1970. Ammonites nuevios o poco conocidos del Aptiano, Albiano y cenomaniano de los Andes australes con notas acerca de su posición estratigráfica. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 25, 197–261.
  • Lehmann, J. and Murphy, M. A. 2000. Sanmartinoceras aff. walshense (Etheridge, 1892) from the Early Cretaceous of California – the first evidence of the ammonite subfamily Aconeceratinae Spath, 1923 in North America. Acta Geologica Polonica, 50, 119–124.
  • Liu, G. 1988. Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous ammonites from Yamzho Yumco area Xizang (Tibet). 66–122. In Chinese Academy of geological sciences (ed.). Tectonic evolution of the lithosphere of the Himalayas, general principle. Professional papers of Xizang (Tibet) Paleontology. Geologic Publishing House, Beijing, 236 pp.
  • Luger, P., Gröschke, M., Bussmann, M., Dina, A., Mette, W., Uhmann, A. and Kallenbach, H. 1994. Comparison of the Jurassic and Cretaceous sedimentary cycles of Somalia and Madagascar: implications for the Gondwana breakup. Geologische Rundschau, 83, 711–727.
  • Lukeneder, A. 2004a. Stratigrafische Erkenntnisse aus einem neuen Vorkommmen von Unterkreide-Ammonoideen in der Losensteiner Mulde (Ternberger Decke, Nördliche Kalkalpen). Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 144/2, 173–189.
  • Lukeneder, A. 2004b. Late Valanginian ammonoids: mediterranean and Boreal elements – imlications on sea-level controlled migration (Ebenforst Syncline; Northern Calcareous Alps; Upper Austria). Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 95/96, 46–59.
  • Mazenot, G. 1939. Les Palaeohoplitidés tithoniques et berriasiens du Sud-Est de la France. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France (New Series) 18, Mémoire, 41, 303 p.
  • Medina, F. A. and Riccardi, A. C. 2005. Desmoceratidae, Silesitidae and Kossmaticeratidae (Ammonitida) from the Upper Aptian–Albian of Patagonia (Argentina). Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève, 24 (1), 251–286.
  • Michalík, J. and Vašíček, Z. 1989. Lower Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Paleogeography of the Czechoslovakian Western Carpathians. 505–523. In Wiedmann, J. (ed.). Cretaceous of the Western Tethys, Proceedings 3rd International, Cretaceous Symposium, Tübingen 1987, Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, 1005 pp.
  • Mikhailova, I. A. and Baraboshkin, E. J. 2002. Volgoceratoides and Koeniceras – New small-size Lower Aptian heteromorphs from the Ulijanovsk region (Russian Platform). 539–553. In Summesberger, H., Histon, K. and Daurer, A. (eds). Cephalopods present and past. Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 57, Wien, 569 pp.
  • Mikhailova, I. A. and Terechova, C. P. 1975. Stratigraphy and fauna of the Albian of the main River Basin (NE Russia). Izvestia Akademii Nauk USSR. Seriia Geologicheskaia, 9, 54–65. [In Russian].
  • Mourgues, F. A. 2004. Advances in ammonite biostratigraphy of marine Atacama basin (Lower Cretaceous), northern Chile, and its relationship with the Neuquén basin, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 17, 3–10.
  • Mukherjee, B. K. and Sachan, H. K. 2001. Discovery of coesite from Indian Himalaya: a record of ultra-high pressure metamorphism in Indian Continental Crust. Current Science, 81, 1358–1361.
  • Neumayr, M. and Uhlig, V. 1881. Ueber Ammonitiden aus den Hilsbildungen Nordeutschlands. Palaeontographica, 27, 129–203.
  • Nikolov, T. G. 1982. Les ammonites de la famille Berriasellidae Spath, 1922. Tithonique supérieur-Berriasien. Académie bulgare des sciences, Université de Sofia, Sofia, 251 pp.
  • Okada, H. 2000. Scientifuic achievements of IGCP-350 ‘Environmetal and Biological Change in East and Sourth Asia during Cretaceous’: an overview. 243–255. In Okada, H. and Mateer, N. J. (eds). Cretaceous Environments of Asia. Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, 17, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 255 pp.
  • Oosting, A. M., Leereveld, H., Dickens, G. R., Henderson, R. A. and Brinkhuis, H. 2006. Correlation of Barremian–Aptian (mid-Cretaceous) dinoflagellate cyst assemblages between the Tethyan abd Austral realms. Cretaceous Research, 27, 792–813.
  • Orbigny, A. d’. 1840–1842. Paléontologie francaise. Terrains Crétacés. I, Céphalopodes. 662 pp., 1841: 121–430.
  • Orbigny, A. D’. 1850. Paléontologie francaise. Description zoologique et géologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnés fossiles des France, comprenant leur application à la reconnaissance des couches. Terrains oolithiques ou jurassiques. Vol. 1 Céphalopodes. Bertrand; Masson; Orbigny. Paris, 521–632.
  • Papp, K. 1907. Beschreibung der whrend der Forschungsreisen M. v. DECHY im Kaukasus gesammelten Versteinerungen. III. 141–174. In Dechy, M. (ed.). Kaukasus. Reisen und Forschungen im Kaukasischen Hochgebirge, Vol. 3, Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 410 pp.
  • Parent, H. 1991. Ammonites Cretacicos de la formacion Rio Mayer (Patagonia Austral): Hatchericeras patagomnense Stanton (Barremiano) y Sanmartinoceras patagonicum Bonarelli (Albiano). Instituto de Fisiografía y Geología Dr. Alfredo Castellanos, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Serie A, 15, 8 p.
  • Parona, C. F. and Bonarelli, G. 1897. Fossili Albiani d'Escragnolles, del Nizzardo e della Liguria occidentale. Palaeontographica Italiana, 2, 53–112.
  • Pathak, D. B. 1997a. Ammonoid Stratigraphy of the Spiti Shale Formation in Spiti Himalaya, India. Journal of the Geologiocal Society of India, 50, 191–200.
  • Pathak, D. B. 1997b. The Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary and its Identification in the Spiti Himalaya, India. 421–423. In Govindan, A. (ed.). Cretaceous Stratigraphy. An Update. Memoir Geological Society of India, 46, Bangalore, 426 pp.
  • Pathak, D. B. and Krishna, J. 1993. Preliminary remarks on the biostratigraphic relevance of the ammonite collections from Spiti Shale Formation, Tethys Himalaya, India. Journal of Himalayan Geology, 42, 207–221.
  • Pictet, F. J. 1867. Études paléontologiques sur la Faune à Terebratula diphyoides de Barrias (Ardèche). Melanges Palèoontologiques, Bâle-Genève, 1, 44–130.
  • Pictet, F. J. and Campiche, G. 1858–1860. Description des fossils du terrain Crétacé des environs de Saint-Croix. 1ère partie. In Pictet, F. J. (ed.). Matériaux pour la Paléontologie Suisse, 2nd series 1, 1–380, Kessmann, J. & Georg, H., Geneve, 1860, 209–380.
  • Pimpirev, C., Ivanov, M., Dimov, D. and Nikolov, T. 2002. First find of the Upper Titjhonian ammonite genus Blanfordiceras from the Miers Bluff Formation, Livingston Island, South Shetland, Islands. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palaontologie, Monatshefte, 2002 (6), 377–384.
  • Premoli-Silva, I., Garzanti, E. and Gaetani, M. 1992. Stratigraphy of the Chikkim and Fatu la formations in the Zangla and Zumlung Units (Zanskar Range, India). With comparisons to the Thakkhola Region (Central India): Mid-Cretaceous evolution of the Indian passive margin. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 97, 511–564.
  • Raisossadat, S. N. 2004. The ammonite family Deshayesitidae in the Kopet Dagh Basin, north-east Iran. Cretaceous Research, 25, 115–136.
  • Raju, D. S. N. and Mishra, P. K. 1996. Cretaceous stratigraphy of India: a review. 2–33. In Sahni, A. (ed.). Cretaceous stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments. Memoir Geological Society of India, 37, Geological Society of India, Bangalore, 447 pp.
  • Reboulet, S. 1995. L'evolution des ammonites du Valanginien-Hauterinien inférieur du bassin Vocontien et de la plate-forme provencale (sud-est de la France): relations avec la stratigraphie séquentielle et implications biostratigraphiques. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie Lyon, 137, 1–371.
  • Reboulet, S. 2001. Limiting factors on shell growth, mode of life and segregation of Valanginian ammonoid populations: evidence from adult-size variations. Geobios, 34, 423–435.
  • Riccardi, A. C. and Medina, F. A. 2002. The Beudanticeratinae and Cleoniceratinae (Ammonitida) from the Lower Albian of Patagonia. Revue Paléobiologie, Genéve, 21, 291–351.
  • Riccardi, A. C., Aguirre-Urreta, M. B. and Medina, F. A. 1987. Aconeceratidae (ammonitina) from the Hauterivian-Albian of southern Patagonia. Palaeontographica, Abteilung A, 196, 105–185.
  • Ropolo, P., Gonnet, R. and Conte, G. 1999. The ‘Pseudocrioceras interval’ and adjacent beds at La Bédoule (SE France): implications to highest Barremian/lowest aptian biostratigraphy. Scripta Geologica, 3, 159–213.
  • Ropolo, P., Moullade, M., Gonnet, R., Conte, G. and Tronchetti, G. 2006. The Deshayesitididae stoyanov, 1949 (Ammonoidea) of the Aptian historical stratotype region at Cassis-La Bédoule (SE France). Carnets de Géologie/Notebooks on Geology, 2006/1, 1–46. (CG2006_M01).
  • Sabyasachi, S., De, S., Roy, P. and Das, S. S. 2004. Ammonites as biological stopwatch and biogeographical black box – a case study from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary (150 Ma) of Kutch, Gujarat. Current Science, 86, 197–202.
  • Salfeld, H. 1921. Kiel- und Furchenbildung auf der Schalenaussenseite der Ammonoideen in ihrer Bedeutung für die Systematik und Festlegung von Biozonen. Zentralblatt fuer Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie, 1921, 343–347.
  • Sayn, G. 1907. Les ammonites pyriteuses des marnes valanginiennes du Sud-Est de la France. lMémoires de la Société Géologique de France, Paléontologie, 15, Memoir 23, 29–66.
  • Sazonova, I. G. 1958. Lower Cretaceous deposits of the Russian platform. 31–136. In Flerova, O. V. (ed.). Mesozoic and Tertiary deposits of the Central regions of the Russian Platform. Vsesoyuzhyi Neftaynoi Nauchno-Issledovatelskii Geologorazvedochnyi Neftyanoi Institut, Gostoptekhizdat, Moscow, 291 pp. [In Russian].
  • Scotese, C. R. 2001. Atlas of Earth History. Paleomap project, Arlington, Texas, 52 pp.
  • Singh, S. N. and Pathak, D. B. 1967. A preliminary note on the Mesozoics of Jaisalmer area, Rajasthan. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, 12, 41–43.
  • Sinzow, I. 1898. Bemerkungen über einige Ammoniten des Aptien. Ucenye Zapiski Odessa, 76, 3–15.
  • Spath, L. F. 1921. On ammonites from Spitsbergen. The Geological Magazine, 58, 297–305.
  • Spath, L. F. 1923–1930. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Gault, Vol. 1. Palaeontographical Society, London, 311 pp.
  • Spath, L. F. 1924a. On the ammonites of the Speeton Clay and the subdivision of the Neocomian. The Geological Magazine, 61, 73–89.
  • Spath, L. F. 1924b. On the Blake collection of ammonites from Kachh, India. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, New Series, 9, Memoir No. 1, 29 pp.
  • Spath, L. F. 1927. Revision of the Jurassic cephalopod fauna of Kachh (Cutch) Part I. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, New Series, 9, Memoir No. 2, 71 pp.
  • Spath, L. F. 1928a. Revision of the Jurassic cephalopod fauna of Kachh (Cutch) Part II. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, New Series, 9, Memoir No. 2, 72–161.
  • Spath, L. F. 1928b. Revision of the Jurassic cephalopod fauna of Kachh (Cutch) Part III. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, New Series, 9, Memoir No. 2, 164–278.
  • Spath, L. F. 1930a. On some Ammonoidea from the Lower Greensand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 10, 417–464.
  • Spath, L. F. 1930b. The fossil fauna of the Samara Range and some neighbouring areas. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, New Series, 15, Part V. 51–66.
  • Spath, L. F. 1931a. Revision of the Jurassic cephalopod fauna of Kachh (Cutch) Part IV. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, New Series, 9, Memoir No. 2, 279–658.
  • Spath, L. F. 1931b. On the Aptian Ammonoidea of Kachh. Appendix to revision of the Jurassic Cephalopod fauna of Kachh (Cutch) Part 5. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Palaeontologia Indica, New Series, 9, 652–658.
  • Spath, L. F. 1939. The cephalopoda of the Neocomian Belemnite Beds of the Salt Range. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Palaeontologia Indica. New Series, 25, Memoir No. 1, 154 pp.
  • Spath, L. F. 1942. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Gault. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London, 669–720.
  • Spitz, A. 1914. A Lower Cretaceous fauna from Himalayan Gieumal sandstone together with a description of a few fossils from the Chikkim Series. Records of the Geological Survey of India, 44, part 3, 197–224.
  • Srikantia, S. V. 1981. The lithostratigraphy, sedimentation and structure of Proterozoic-Phanerozoic formations of Spiti Basin in the Higher Himalaya of Himalaya Pradesh, India. 31–48. In Sinha, A. K. (ed.). Contemporary Geoscientific Researches in the Himalaya. Mahendra Pal Singh Publication, Dehradun, India, 252 pp.
  • Srikantia, S. V. and Bhargava, O. N. 1998. Geology of Himachal Pradesh. Geological Society of India, Bangalore, 406 pp.
  • Steck, A. 2003. Geology of the NW Indian Himalaya. Eclogae Geolocicae Helvetiae, 96, 147–196.
  • Steck, A., Epard, J. L., Vannay, J. C., Hunziker, J., Girard, M., Morard, A. and Robyr, M. 1998. Geological transect across the Tso Morari and Spiti areas: the nappe structure of the Tethys Himalaya. Eclogae Geolocicae Helvetiae, 91/1, 103–121.
  • Stoliczka, F. 1865. Geological section across the Himalayan mountains of Wangtu Bridge on the river Sutlej to Sungdo on the Indus: with an account of formation of Spiti, accompanied by a revision of all known fossils from the district. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, 5, 337–354.
  • Stoliczka, F. 1866. Summary of geological Observations during a visit to the provinces – Rupshu, Karnag, South Ladak, Zanskar, Suroo and Dras – of Western Tibet, 1865. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, 5, 1–173.
  • Stolley, E. 1912. Ueber einige Cephalopoden aus der unteren Kreide Patagoniens. Arkiv Zoologica, 7, 13–18.
  • Thieuloy, J. P. 1979. Les ammonites. Desription des especes indices et de quelques autres formes fondamentales. In Busnardo, R., Thieuloyj, J.-P. and Moullade, M. (eds). Hypostratotype mesogéen de l’étage Valanginien (sud-est de la France). Comite francais de stratigraphie. Les StratotypesFrancais, 6, 37–58.
  • Thomson, M. R. A. 1971. Ammonite faunas of south-eastern Alexander Island and their stratigraphical significance. 155–160. In Adie, R. J. (ed.). Antarctic geology and geophysics. Univeritetsvorlaget, Oslo, 876 pp.
  • Thomson, M. R. A. 1974. Ammonite faunas of the Lower Cretaceous of south-eastern Alexander Island. British Antarctic Survey, Scientific Reports, 80, 44 pp.
  • Thomson, M. R. A. 1979. Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous ammonite faunas of the Ablation point Area, Alexander Island. British Antarctic Survey, Scientific Reports, 97, 37 pp.
  • Thomson, M. R. A. 1982. A comparison of the ammonite faunas of the Antarcic Peninsula and Magallanes Basin. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 139, 763–770.
  • Thomson, M. R. A. 1983. “European” ammonites in the Lower Cretaceous Antarctica. Zitteliana, 10, 407–412.
  • Uhlig, V. 1902. Über die Cephalopodenfauna der Teschener und Grodischter Schichten. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 72, 1–87.
  • Uhlig, V. 1903. The Fauna of the Spiti Shales (1903–1910). Paleontologia Indica, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Series 15 (Himalayan Fossils), 4 (1), 1–132.
  • Uhlig, V. 1905. Einige Bemerkungen über die Ammonitengattung Hoplites NEUMAYR. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 114, 591–636.
  • Uhlig, V. 1910a. The Fauna of the Spiti Shales (1903–1910). Paleontologia Indica, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Series 15 (Himalayan Fossils), 4 (2), 133–306.
  • Uhlig, V. 1910b. The Fauna of the Spiti Shales (1903–1910). Paleontologia Indica, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Series 15 (Himalayan Fossils), 4 (3), 307–395.
  • Uhlig, V. 1910c. Die Fauna der Spiti-Schiefer des Himalaya, ihr geologisches Alter und ihre Weltstellung. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 85, 531–609.
  • Vašíček, Z. 1997. Ammonite stratigraphy of the pre-Albian Lower Cretaceous formations of the Western Carpathians (Czech and Slovak Republics). Geologica Carpathica, 48 (4), 231–242.
  • Vašíček, Z. and Michalík, J. 1986. The Lower Cretaceous ammonites of the Manín Unit (Mt. Buthkov, West Carpathians). Geologica Carpathica, 37 (4), 449–481.
  • Vašíček, Z. and Summesberger, H. 2004. Ammonoids from the Aptian (Lower Cretaceous; Upper Austria) of the Northern Calcareous Alps. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museum Wien, 106A, 53–65.
  • Vašíček, Z., Reháková, D., Michalík, J., Peterčáková′, M. and Halásová, E. 1992. Ammonites, aptychi, nanno- and microplankton from the Lower Cretaceous Pieniny Formation in the “Kysuca Gate” near Žilina (Western Carpathian Klippen Belt, Kysuca Unit). Západné Karpaty, séria paleontológia, 16, 43–57.
  • Waagen, W. 1875. Jurassic fauna from Kutch. The Cephalopoda. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Paleontologia Indica, 1, 447 pp.
  • Waagen, W. 1879. Die geopraphische Vertheilung der fossilen Organismen in Indien. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 39, 1–28.
  • Westermann, G. E. G. and Wang, Y.-G. 1988. Middle Jurassic ammonites of Tibet and the age of the Lower Spiti Shales. Palaeontology, 31 (2), 295–339.
  • Whitehouse, F. W. 1926. The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of eastern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 8, 195–214.
  • Whitehouse, F. W. 1927. Additions to the Cretaceous ammonite fauna of Estern Australia. Part 1 (Simberskitidae, Aconeceratidae, and Parahoplitidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 9 (1), 109–120.
  • Wilke, H. G. 1988. Stratigraphie und Sedimentologie der Kreide im Nordwesten der Provinz Alicante (SE-Spanien). Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, A/95, 72 pp.
  • Wippich, M. G. E. 2001. Die tiefe Unter-Kreide (Berrias bis Unter-Hauterive) im Südwestmarokkanischen Becken: Ammonitenfauna, Bio- und Sequenzstratigraphie. PhD Thesis, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, 142 pp.
  • Wright, C. W. 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea. In Moore, R. C. (ed.). Treatise on invertebrate Palaeontology Part L, Mollusca 4: L 80–L 465. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 490 pp.
  • Wright, C. W., Calloman, J. H. and Howarth, M. K. 1996. Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4 revised (Cretaceous Ammonoidea). Geological Society of America, Boulder and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 362 pp.
  • Yin, J. and Enay, R. 2004. Tithonian ammonoid biostratigraphy in eastern Himalayan Tibet. Geobios, 37, 667–686.
  • Zittel, K. A. von. 1868. Die Cephalopoden der Stramberger Schichten. Palaeontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des Koeniglich-Bayerischen Staates, 2, 33–118.
PalAss Go! URL: http://go.palass.org/5m7 | Twitter: Share on Twitter | Facebook: Share on Facebook | Google+: Share on Google+