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149 BARREMIAN AMMONOIDS FROM SAN LUCAS FORMATION AT HUETAMO REGION, MICHOACAN, MEXICO GONZALEZ -ARREOLA, Celestina, Instituto de Geologia UNAM, Mexico D. F. 04510; *GARCIA-BARRERA, Pedro, Facultad de Ciencias UNAM Mexico D. F. 04510; PANTOJA-ALOR J., Instituto de Geologia UNAM Mexico D. F. 04510; VILLASENOR, A. B., Instituto de Geologia UNAM Mexico D F. 04510. We report here the species ofammonoids that actually have been found in two localities ofMichoacan State, near San Lucas town; one ofthem is five kilometers north-west ofit, and the other is six kilometers south-east ofSan Lucas. The former is called Arroyo Las Paredes section, and the second is called Tiringueo section. Both localities are situated in the lower Member ofSan Lucas Formation (Pantoja Alor, 1993) called Terrero Prieto; the upper Member is called Las Fraguas, characterized by volcaniclastic sediments. The strata ofSan Lucas Formation were comformably deposited over the upper Jurassic sediments ofThe Angao Formation (Pantoja-Alor, 1959, 1993). San Lucas Formation represents a flysch sequence ofshale, sandstone and conglomerate (turbidites), and was divided in two members: the lower Terrero Prieto Member consists ofshale, calcareous sandstone and conglomerate, with some rudistid banks at the top ofthe section. Las Fraguas Member, almost 400 meters thick, consists ofshale, feldespathic calcareous sandstone, siltstone and claystone, with predominance of volcaniclastic sediments that bear a variety ofinvertebrate marine fossils ofAptian age, including brachiopods, gastropods, echinoderms and very badly preserved ammonoids (Sour T. and Garcia-Barrera, 1995). The fossil assemblage ofammonoids is represented by two groups: the uncoiled forms : Leptoceras subtile Uhlig, Eoleptoceras sp. and Acrioceras (Acrioceras) cf tabarelli (Astier), and the coiled ones: Pulchellia (pulchellia) galeata (Von Buch) and Pulchellia (P) galeata cf ornata BurgI. The species cited above indicate a Barremian age for the strata that bear this fauna. This work is a little part ofa complete project that pretends to study the Cretaceous marine invertebrate fauna ofthe Huetamo region, so it represents preliminary results..

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