Upper Cretaceous marine strata in the Litte Hatchet Mountains, southwestern New Mexico

New Mexico Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 63-69

  Lucas, Spencer G ^a   Lawton, Timothy F ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONITE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIVALVE; CENOMANIAN; TRANSGRESSION;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ACANTHOCERAS (AMMONITE); AMMONOIDEA; BIVALVIA; INOCERAMIDAE; INOCERAMUS; OSTREA; SEPTARIA;

EID: 25144506082     PISSN: 0196948X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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