Report 4

Jurassic Paleobiogeography
of the Conterminous United

in Its Continental Setting
GEOLOGICAL SLFRV£Y PRQFESSIQNAL PAPER
Jurassic Paleobiogeography
of the Conterminous United States
in Its Continental Setting
By RALPH W. IMLAY
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1062
Paleogeographic changes in the United States during Jurassic

time are revealed by the distribution, succession, and
differentiation of molluscan faunas; by gross stratigraphic
changes; by the position, extent, and duration of
unconformities; and by comparisons with Jurassic data
elsewhere in North America
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1980

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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CONTENTS
Page
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3 39
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Paleobiogeographic setting ————————————————————— 4 Gulf region of the United States ———————————— 46
4 48
4 49
17 51
18 i!. astern L^ninudJiua and west iexas-~™™-™™™~~~~™™-~™ 51
19 JT ddiic vôa&t region ——————————————————————— ———————————— 51
Skllpppcai/YKl rj-p aTYlTYiri'nii'PQ 3TlH rlllp'hJf.G \\\T C^QOTAC — — — — — — ______ 19 51
19 52
19 Western California and southwestern Oregon ——— — 61
19 Eastern Oregon and western Idaho —————————— 63
21 66
63,10013.11™ - - ——————————— 23 66
Bathonisn™™—• _ •_— —— —— _ 25 67
o±±:::z::::::::::i:i:z:::i:z::ii 29
30
30
Montana and North Dakota ———————————————
Southeastern Idaho to western South Dakota —————
67
82
91
Tith ^ glEn
31 93
31 96
Lower Tithonian of the Gulf region———————— 32 Midcontinent region —————————————————————— 99
Upper Tithonian of the Gulf region ——————————— 34 99
A.Tmnonite seouences - - ————————— —— 34 102
V'f\ o oiyyt /iflfl- Dlf Wl » /TF?" //? Q Q TY1TY1 rty.1 i" P 9 CCPTY1 V_l Q OTP _____ 34 102
Substeueroceras-Proniceras ammonite assem- Gulf of Mexico and nearby regions —————————————— 103
35 106
Index ————————
rPi'fliriyii£iyi n"f f^fllifrviTiiQ ayiH f}v&crf\n — — 36 108
rPl'f Vl/\y»igy» rt-p /"âyiaHn 3TlH Aloclrs ———____-.__——____ _____ 36 114
Intercontinental faunal relationships ———————————— 37 127
ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURE 1. Jurassic basins of deposition in North America ————————————————

2-12. Maps showing distribution of Jurassic fossils and inferred seas in North America:
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9. Early to early middle Oxfordian————————— 13
10. Late middle Oxfordian to early Kimmeridgian-- 14
11. Late Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian ————— 15
12. 16
13. Succession and correlation of Hettangian to Toarcian ammonites in North America:
A. Mexico to southern British Columbia —————————————————————— 20
B. Northern British Columbia to East Greenland————————————————— 21
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FIGURE 14. Succession and correlation of Bajocian to Callovian ammonites in North America:
A. Mexico to western interior region-——————————————————————————————————————————————— 22
B. British Columbia to East Greenland—————————————————————————————————————————————— 23
15. Succession and correlation of Oxfordian to Tithonian ammonites in North America:
A. Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Coast, and western interior region————————————————————————————————— 24
B. Southwestern Canada to Greenland ——————————————————————————————————————————— 25
16. Comparisons of the Tithonian and Volgian Stages and the suggested subdivisions of the Tithonian————————————— 26
17. Index map of Jurassic areas in the Gulf of Mexico and nearby regions—————————————————————————————— 40
18. Index map of Jurassic areas in the Pacific Coast region from California and Nevada to Washington————————————— 41
19. Index map of Jurassic areas in the Pacific Coast region from British Columbia to southern Alaska————————————— 42
20. Index map of Jurassic areas in the western interior region————————————————————————————————————— 43
21. Correlations and comparisons of Jurassic rocks in the Gulf of Mexico and nearby regions:
A. Western Cuba to Victoria, Mexico————————————————————————————————————————-—————— 44
B. Huasteca area, Mexico, to Malone Mountains, Tex————————————————————————————————————— 45
22. Correlations and comparisons of Jurassic rocks in the Pacific Coast region in California, Nevada, and western to east-
central Oregon:
A. Western Nevada and eastern California ——————————————————————————————————————————— 54
B. Western California to east-central Oregon —————————————————————————————————————————— 55
23. Correlations and comparisons of Jurassic rocks in the Pacific Coast region from eastern Oregon and western Idaho to north-
\VCStcFIi WclSiiliigjT'OIi --—-—™™~---——-—.———.„—.—.——_______.________.___..__._-.-._________.______.„_._______-..__._______-_.______.»-_,.____________.._._ u\/
24. Correlations and comparisons of Jurassic rocks in the Pacific Coast region in British Columbia, Yukon Territory, and south
ern Alaska:
A. Southwestern to central British Columbia—————————————————————————————————————————— 58
B. Northwestern British Columbia to southern Alaska———————————————————————————————————— 59
25. Correlations and comparisons of Jurassic rocks in the western interior region from southwestern Alberta through central
Montana to southern Saskatchewan:
A.. OOUtllin' GStGiTi A.lDCFt<** tO CCni/IclI JYLOntEliicl™™'—"~~~——-—<—._-___—______—________—_______—_____—__..___——______________________________—
B. Central Montana to southern Saskatchewan————————————————————————————————————————— 69
26. Correlations and comparisons of Jurassic rocks in the western interior region from southeastern Idaho to southwestern
South Dakota:
A. Ammon area, Idaho, to Red Creek, Wyo——————————————————————————————————————————— 70
B. Hyattville area in north-central Wyoming to Minnekahta area, South Dakota————————————————————— 71
27. Correlations and comparisons of Jurassic rocks in the western interior region from north-central Utah to north-central
Colorado:
A. Burr Fork to Whiterocks Canyon, Utah———-*••——————————————————————————————————————— 72
B. Dinosaur Quarry, Utah, to Hahns Peak, Colo———————————————————————————————————————— 73
28. Correlations and comparisons of Jurassic rocks in the western interior region from north-central Utah to southwestern
Colorado:
A. Monks Hollow to Black Dragon Canyon, Utah——————————————————————————————————————— 74
B. San Rafael River, Utah, to McElmo Canyon, Colo-———-—~—————~———~—————————————-—— 75
29. Correlations and comparisons of Jurassic rocks in the western interior region from southwestern Utah to northeastern
Arizona:
A. Gunlock to Brown Canyon, Utah——————————————————————————————————————————————— 76
B. Little Bull Valley, Utah, to Cow Springs, Ariz———————_~~——-—————-——-———-——-—————— 77
30. Jurassic unconformities in Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Coast regions———————————————————————————————— 100
31. Jurassic unconformities in western interior region —————————————————————————————————————————— 101
32. Inferred extent of Jurassic seas of early Bajocian to earliest Callovian Age in western interior region———————————— 110
33. Inferred extent of Jurassic seas of late early Callovian to early Kimmeridgian Age in western interior region——————— H2
TABLE
TABLE 1. Thickness of the Piper and underlying Gypsum Spring Formations in parts of north-central Wyoming and south-
CONTENTS
CONVERSION FACTORS
Metric unit Inch-Pound equivalent Metric unit Inch-Pound equivalent
Length Specific combinations—Continued
millimeter (mm) = 0.03937 inch (in) liter per second (L/s) = .0353 cubic foot per second
meter (m) = 3.28 feet (ft) cubic meter per second = 91.47 cubic feet per second per
kilometer (km) = .62 mile (mi) per square kilometer square mile [(ft?/s)/mi2]
[(m*/s)/km8]
Area meter per day (m/d) = 3.28 feet per day (hydraulic
conductivity) (ft/d)
square meter (m2) = 10.76 square feet (ft2 ) meter per kilometer = 5.28 feet per mile (ft/mi)
square kilometer (km2) = .386 square mile (mi2 ) i<m/km)
hectare (ha) — 2.47 acres kilometer per hour — .9113 foot per second <ft/s)
Volume (km/h)
meter per second (m/s) — 3.28 feet per second
cubic centimeter (cm*) = 0.061 cubic inch (in«) meter squared per day = 10.764 feet squared per day (fta/d)
liter (L) = 611.03 cubic inches (mVd) ( transmissivity )
cubic meter (m3 ) = 35.31 cubic feet (ftf) cubic meter per second = 22.826 million gallons per day
cubic meter = .00081 acre-foot (acre-ft) (mf»/s) (Mgal/d)
cubic hectometer (hm3) = 810.7 acre-feet cubic meter per minute = 264.2 gallons per minute (gal/min)
liter = 2.113 pints (pt) (m3/min)
liter = 1.06 quarts (qt)
liter = .26 gallon (gal) liter per second (L/s) = 15.85 gallons per minute
cubic meter = .00026 million gallons (Mgal or liter per second per = 4.83 gallons per minute per foot
10" gal) meter [CL/s)/m] [(gal/min)/£t]
cubic meter = 6.290 barrels (bbl) (1 bbl = 42 gal) kilometer per hour — .62 mile per hour (mi/h)
Weight (km/h)
meter per second (m/s) — 2.237 miles per hour
gram (g) = 0.035 ounce, avoirdupois (oz avdp) gram per cubic = 612.43 pounds per cubic foot (A/ft")
gram = .0022 pound, avoirdupois (Ib avdp) centimeter (g/cm3 )
metric tons (t) = 1.102 tons, short (2,000 Ib) gram per square = 2>048 pounds per square foot (lb/ft2 )
metric tons = 0.9842 ton, long (2,240 Ib) centimeter (g/cm2 )
Specific combinations gram per square = .0142 pound per square inch Ob/In2)
centimeter
kilogram per square = 0.96 atmosphere (atm)
centimeter (kg/cm2) Temperature
kilogram per square — .98 bar (0.9.869 atm)
centimeter degree Celsius (°C) = 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (°F)
cubic meter per second = 35.3 cubic feet per second (ft*/s) degrees Celsius = [(1.8x"C)+32] degrees Fahrenheit
(m*/s) (temperature)
JURASSIC PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE CONTERMINOUS
UNITED STATES IN ITS CONTINENTAL SETTING
By RALPH W. IMLAY
ABSTRACT basin and shed considerable sediment southward; and deposition pre
vailed in open marine water from Cuba and Florida westward to central
During Jurassic time, marine sediments of considerable thickness in Mexico. Deposition continued into the Cretaceous in most parts of the
cluding bedded salt were deposited on the outer part of the Atlantic Gulf region except in some northern nearshore areas. The climate in
Continental Shelf of the United States. The inner part of the shelf may the Gulf region during Oxfordian to Tithonian time was probably hot
have been inundated also during Oxfordian to Tithonian time, coinci and moderately humid. Rainfall apparently became greater after the
dent with extensive flooding elsewhere in the Atlantic Ocean and in the early Kimmeridgian and was greater in eastern Mexico than in the
Gulf of Mexico. southeastern United States, as shown by the presence of coal beds in
During the Early Jurassic, neither marine nor continental sediments Mexico. On the whole, the climate was probably similar to that in the
seem to have been deposited within the area now covered by the Gulf western interior region during deposition of the Morrison Formation.
of Mexico. Nonetheless, a marine embayment of Sinemurian to possibly On the Pacific Coast during Jurassic time, marine deposition took
early Pliensbachian Age did extend northward from the Pacific Ocean place at depths ranging from very shallow to very deep, involved tre
to east-central Mexico, where it terminated against a mass of meta- mendous thickness of sediment, included much volcanic material, and
morphic and granitic rocks in eastern Veracruz. The marine sediments gradually shifted westward.
deposited are carbonaceous, contain much plant material and some During the Early Jurassic, a sea extended from the Pacific Coast as
coal, and evidently were laid down in a warm humid climate. During far east as the Snake River in easternmost Oregon and a similar dis
the later Early Jurassic, they were strongly folded, faulted, intruded tance east in Nevada. The deepest part of the sea probably trended
by igneous rocks, slightly metamorphosed, and then eroded. Presum northward through westernmost Nevada into eastern Oregon and be
ably, erosion took place mostly in Toarcian time after tectonic move yond, as indicated by continuous deposition of fine-grained sediments
ments in Pliensbachian time. from the Triassic into the Jurassic. By contrast, in eastern California,
During the Middle Jurassic, marine sediments apparently were not Jurassic sedimentation apparently did not begin before the Sinemurian.
deposited within the Gulf region until the late Bathonian. Continental During Bajocian time, a shallow sea covered nearly the same area as
sedimentation, however, took place in both Mexico and Cuba. In east- the Early Jurassic sea, except for an eastward extension into the west
central Mexico, plant fossils show that continental deposition began in ern interior region. This sea received a great variety of sediments that
the early Bajocian. Such deposition took place over a larger area than included much volcanic material, except in Nevada. Deposition of beds
that covered by the Lower Jurassic marine beds, continued until some of Bathonian Age in the Pacific Coast region of the conterminous
time in the Bathonian, but was followed by erosion before the early United States has been demonstrated by fossils only in eastern Oregon.
Callovian. In Cuba thousands of feet of carbonaceous plant-bearing The absence of Bathonian fossils elsewhere could be explained by col
beds were deposited during the Bajocian and Bathonian and possibly a lecting failure; it could also reflect the beginning of intense volcanism
little earlier. These plant-bearing beds show that the climate was warm which lasted into the early Oxfordian and which may at first have pro
and humid throughout the Gulf region during most of the Middle Jur duced conditions on the sea bottom that were unfavorable for the pres
assic. ervation of fossils.
During Callovian to early middle Oxfordian time, the Gulf region During the Callovian, marine waters covered most of the present
subsided and received some marine waters from the major oceans, area of California, Oregon, and Washington, and during earliest Callov
which deposited thick masses of salt at various places. One marine em ian they also extended eastward into the western interior region. Enor
bayment apparently extended westward into Cuba and was probably mous amounts of coarse to fine volcanic debris were ejected from vol
the major source of the salt. Another embayment extended from the canoes and fissures into the sea, where they became mixed with
Pacific Ocean into the Huasteca area of east-central Mexico, where it sediments derived from islands and larger landmasses. Apparently
was separated from the Gulf at least in part by a land barrier located deposition continued throughout the epoch, except in eastern Oregon.
near the present Gulf coast. Salt was deposited mainly during late Cal The formation of oceanic crust during the Bathonian or Callovian ep
lovian to early middle Oxfordian time, but deposition may have started ochs, or both, is suggested by the characteristics of the Rogue Forma
in middle Callovian time. At about the same time in nearby areas in tion in western Oregon.
east-central and northeastern Mexico, varicolored continental beds and Marine sedimentation persisted in the Pacific Coast region without
some red-weathering lava were deposited. The climate during deposi any apparent interruption, from Callovian to early Kimmeridgian time,
tion of the salt and nearby varicolored continental beds was probably over a large area including California, western Oregon, and probably
hot and dry in the Gulf region. The red silt and sand were probably northwestern Washington. During the early Oxfordian, deposition of
derived from upland areas to the west or north where the climate was highly volcanic sediments continued just as during the Callovian. By
hot and seasonally rainy. contrast, from late Oxfordian to early Kimmeridgian, the most common
Near the middle of the Oxfordian, major portals to the oceans were sediments deposited were dark clay and silt, which in most places in
opened abruptly by major structural movements, and as a result sea- cluded only fine volcanic material.
water of normal salinity flowed quickly across the saline deposits and At the end of the early Kimmeridgian, marine deposition ceased in
far beyond. Subsequently, during the later Jurassic, the Gulf of Mexico areas underlain by the Mariposa Formation in eastern California, and
gradually deepened and widened; landmasses arose north of the Gulf by the Galice Formation in western Oregon and in nearby California.
JURASSIC PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES
Those areas were then uplifted, and the rocks were folded, intruded The second marine invasion was terminated near the middle of the
locally by igneous rocks, and strongly eroded before the end of the Callovian by the rise and enlargement of a large island in Montana that
Jurassic. cut off marine waters from the north. South of this island in very shal
In some other places near the present Pacific Coast, marine sedi low, probably highly saline waters were deposited unfossiliferous, red,
ments were deposited from the late Kimmeridgian to the Tfthonian, even-bedded, fine-grained sand that thickens westward from 100 to
but in many other places such deposition apparently only took place 1,000 feet (30 to 300 m) or more, and that extends from the Black Hills
during the Tithonian. Some of the sediments, now represented by the area southwestward through southern Wyoming and northernmost
Knoxville and Riddle Formations, consist mostly of nonvolcanic ter Utah into southeastern Idaho. Near Idaho Falls, the lower part of the
rigenous clastic materials which locally contain limestone lenses and sand was deposited along with some marine lime mud and sand. This
which were deposited in shallow waters. Other sediments, represented marine fades thins eastward to an area near the western boundary of
by the Dothan and Otter Point Formations and by the Franciscan as Wyoming where bedded salt and gypsum were deposited at about the
semblage, consist of volcanic elastic materials, breccia, lava, and chert same stratigraphic position over a distance of several hundred miles
and were deposited in deep waters. All available evidence indicates (several hundred kilometers) from north to south. Evidently, marine
that the volcanic sediments were deposited far west of the nonvolcanic and lagponal conditions persisted to the west in Idaho at the same time
sediments and in much deeper waters, but that deposition of both be that ced; sand was being deposited farther east in highly, saline or pos
gan at about the same time on oceanic crust of late Oxfordian to early sibly brackish waters and at the same time that light-colored, crossbed-
Kimmeridgian Age. Evidently, the oceanic crust was formed at the ded sand was being reworked by winds in the Colorado Plateau.
same time at which the Galice and Mariposa Formations were being The third marine invasion into the western interior region appar
deposited in areas far to the east. ently happened during the late middle to early late Callovian, in some
That the climate in California and Oregon during Jurassic time was places immediately after deposition of red even-bedded sand and equiv
probably warm is indicated by the presence of ammonites of Mediter alent eolian sand and in other places after a brief interval of erosion.
ranean (Tethyan) affinities in those States and by the lack of certain The sea extended eastward across northern Utah, southern Idaho,
ammonites that are common in the Arctic region and along the Pacific northern Coloradb, and southern Wyoming into South Dakota. It may
Coast as far south as British Columbia. The change is similar to that have also extended northward from the Black Hills area into southern
found in Jurassic ammonite faunules between northwest Europe and Saskatchewan, where it could be represented by all or part of the glau-
the Mediterranean region. conitic deposits called the Roseray Formation (equals middle member
During the Early Jurassic, the western interior region south of Mon of the Vanguard Formation).
tana received as much as 3,000 feet (915 m) of continental sediments In this sea, highly glauconitic limy sand, sandy silt, some gypsum,
deposited under ftuviatiie and eofan environments. During the late Ox and some limy mud (Curtis Formation and Pine Butte Member of the
fordian, Kimmeridgian, and probably early Tithonian, the region re Sundance Formation) were deposited in very shallow water, as shown
ceived hundreds of feet of continental sediments deposited under flu- by the presence of Ostrea, Lopha, Lingula, and Meleagrinella. Such
viatile, lacustrine, and swampy environments. Between these two sediments in the San RafaeL swell were overlain conformably by, and
episodes, the area was invaded five times by marine waters that en passed laterally southeastward into, unfossiliferous chocolate-brown,
tered from the west through Idaho, Washington, or Alberta. Three of red, or gray even-bedded sand; silt, and clay, and, locally, some gyp
the invasions were followed by complete withdrawals of the sea from sum. Such sediments were probably deposited in highly saline water in
the region and two by partial withdrawals. marginal areas of the sea. Deposition of both the marine, brackish-, and
The sea first invaded southeast Idaho early in the Bajocian, extended saline-water sediments was followed rather quickly by withdrawal of
from there northeast into the Williston basin and southward into south the sea completely from the western interior region and by an interval
west Utah, and then withdrew completely at about the beginning of of erosion that lasted until early Oxfordian time.
the middle Bajocian. That sea left deposits of gypsum, red silt, limy The fourth marine invasion into the western interior region entered
mud, some chert, and locally in the Williston basin, a little salt. The central Montana east of the Sweetgrass arch during the latest Callovian
characteristics of these sediments show that the sea was very shallow, and possibly entered the Williston basin even earlier. During the early
that its initial sediments were laid down in highly saline waters, that Oxfordian, the sea spread widely, but did not advance as far south in
later sediments were deposited in slightly deeper waters which sup Utah as the preceding sea, and apparently did not spread west of the
ported some marine organisms^ and1 that the sea deepened a little in Sweetgrass arch. At the end of the early middle Oxfordian, the sea
southeastern Idaho. withdrew northward into northern Wyoming and the Williston basin
The second and greatest marine invasion of the western interior re bub, spread westward in Montana at least as far as the Sawtooth Range
gion started in the late middle Bajoeian and lasted until the early Cal- south of Glacier Park. It persisted in Montana at least to the end of the
lovian. The sea underwent marked shallowing in the middle Bathonian Oxfordian. The sea was bounded on the west in central Idaho and pos
and then withdrew nearly completely in late early to middle Callovian. sibly in westernmost Montana by a landmass that shed considerable
It entered across northern Utah, eastern Idaho, and southern Alberta, clastic sediment eastward. This is shown by a change from mostly glau
surrounded a large island in central Montana, and was much more ex conitic, calcareous sand, sandy lime, and sandy silt in the west to
tensive than the sea of the earlier Bajocian except in eastern and south mostly silt and clay farther east. The sea was shallow, as shown by the
ern Wyoming during late Bajocian to early Bathonian. From late Bath presence of Ostrea, Mytilus, and Meleagrinella, and by abundant rip
onian to early Callovian, however, it advanced across Wyoming into ple marks and crossbedding. The climate was probably warm and hu
South Dakota beyond the erosional eastern limit of beds of early Bajo- mid, as shown by the presence of many wood fragments in the Swif(;
eian Age. In this sea were deposited clayey to dense to oolitic lime mud, Formation in western Montana.
limy clay and silt, gray to yellow limy sand, and some red silt and gyp The northward withdrawal of the sea in Montana during the early
sum. The sediments deposited at any one time were similar over great middle Oxfordian was followed by a brief fifth marine invasion south
distances, except for the initial deposits that filled irregularities on the ward from Montana and northern Wyoming as far as northwestern Col
underlying erosion surface. Most of the sediments were deposited as orado and northeastern Utah. In this sea was deposited a thin unit
the sea transgressed. Regressive deposits include the Boundary Ridge (Windy Hill Sandstone Member of the Sundance Formation) of yellow
and Giraffe Creek Members of the Twin Creek Limestone and their ish-gray, limy, locally oolitic, ripple-marked sand, and a little gray to
equivalents. green mud that contains a few mollusks, such as Ostrea. These marine
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
sediments were deposited unconformably on the Redwater Shale Mem America (figs. 13-16), the locations of some of the best
ber of the Sundance Formation and conformably below the continental known Jurassic sequences (figs. 17-20), the gross strat-
Morrison Formation. As they are not recognizable as a lithologic unit
north of the Wind River Basin in central Wyoming, they presumably igraphic and lithologic changes in space and time (figs.
pass northward into the upper part of the Redwater Shale Member in 21-29), and the position, extent, and duration of uncon
northern Wyoming. formities during Jurassic time (figs. 30, 31). In addition,
During later Jurassic time, continental sediments (Morrison For the report discusses most existing published strati-
mation) were deposited on flood plains and in lakes throughout much of graphic, lithologic, and faunule knowledge in sufficient
the western interior region and in coal-forming swamps in Montana.
Continental deposition began during the early or late Oxfordian in the detail to substantiate the interpretations presented on
southern part of the region, definitely during the late Oxfordian in the the maps, on the charts, and in the section on Jurassic
central part, and probably as late as the Kimmeridgian in northern geologic history.
Montana. It persisted in all parts at least through the Kimmeridgian. Most of the geographic features, areas, and towns
Sediments in the southern and central parts of the western interior mentioned in this report are shown on figures 17-20.
region were derived from the south and west. In the northern part,
they were derived from the east and west. Evidently, continental sedi
Further locality data concerning such features in the
mentation began at about the same time as deposition of the marine Gulf of Mexico region are shown in papers by Imlay
Norphlet and Smackover Formations of the Gulf region. Uplift of land (1943a, p. 1408, 1409, 1412, 1496, 1503, 1509; 1952a, p.
areas from which the continental sediments were derived apparently 954; 1953c, figs. 2-4), Swain (1944, p. 583), K. A. Dick-
occurred at the same time as uplift of the land areas that shed sediment inson (1968, p. E2), and Lopez Ramos (1974, p. 382,
southward into the Gulf of Mexico during late Oxfordian to Tithonian
time. 385, 388, 391). Such data for the Pacific Coast region of
The Jurassic ammonite succession in North America from Hettan- the United States and Canada are shown in papers by
gian through early Bajocian time is essentially the same as elsewhere Imlay (1952a, p. 956; 1961, p. D15; 1973, pi. 48; Imlay
in the world. Ammonite assemblages of late Pliensbachian Age are dif and Jones, 1970, p. B19); Frebold and Tipper (1970), and
ferentiated from north to south, just as they are in Europe. Ammonite Imlay and Detterman (1973, p. 7). Such data for the
assemblages of middle Bajocian Age in the Pacific Coast region contain
some genera that are known only from areas bordering the Pacific western interior region are shown in papers by Baker,
Ocean, but overall their generic resemblances to European ammonites Dane, and Reeside (1936), Imlay (1952a, p. 956; 1953a, p.
are striking. 12; 1956a, p. 563; 1957, p. 472; 1962b, p. C8, C9; 1967b,
In contrast, from late Bajocian time until the end of the Jurassic, p. 5, 63-65), Frebold (1957, figs. 1, 2; 1969, fig. 1),
marked differentiation of ammonite faunas took place from north to Brooke and Braun (1972, fig. 1), J. A. Peterson (1957, p.
south. The ammonite successions in the Gulf region and in the Pacific
Coast region as far north as southern California remained closely simi 402, 403), and Pipiringos and O'Sullivan (1975).
lar to those in the Mediterranean region. The succession from northern
California to northern Alaska became similar to that in northern Eu
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
rasia, although some mingling of genera of Boreal and Mediterranean
affinities occurred in California and Oregon. Such mingling and the
presence of genera known only from the Western Hemisphere or from For the data published herein, the writer is indebted
areas bordering the Pacific Ocean have aided greatly in making fairly to many geologists from Canada, the United States, and
accurate correlations of rocks in widely separated areas. Mexico. Canadians who contributed include Hans Fre
The differentiation of ammonite faunas from north to south can be bold, J. A. Jeletzky, and H. W. Tipper of the Canadian
reasonably ascribed to partial isolation of an arctic sea from the Pacific
Ocean, except for at least one connection through Yukon Territory dur Geological Survey; M. M. Brooke, W. K. Brown, J. E.
ing Middle and most of Late Jurassic time, and another connection from Christopher, and D. F. Paterson of the Saskatchewan
East Greenland to northwest Europe from the beginning of Callovian Geological Survey; and L. W. Vigrass of the University
time. of Saskatchewan. In the United States, information was
provided by George Gryc, K. A. Dickinson, Arthur
INTRODUCTION
Grantz, D. L. Jones, J. D. Love, W. J. Mapel, A. A.
Baker, W. A. Cobban, E. M. MacKevett, Fred Peterson,
This report is a successor to that written by Imlay G. N. Pipiringos, Donald Richter, E. H. Bailey, W. P.
and Detterman (1973) on the Jurassic Paleobiogeogra- Irwin, L. D. Clark, R. L. Detterman, and Robert Sharp
phy of Alaska. It is more detailed because much more of the U.S. Geological Survey; George Herman and Jules
information is available concerning the conterminous Braunstein of Shell Oil Co.; W. E. Humphrey of Ameri
United States. It deals in a broad way with changes in can International Oil Co. (Amoco); R. T. Hazzard of Gulf
Jurassic geography, stratigraphy, and ammonite assem Oil Co.; W. B. Weeks of Phillips Oil Co.; F. M. Swain of
blages. It presents paleogeographic maps depicting the the University of Minnesota; W. R. Dickinson of Stan
main areas of Jurassic marine deposition and most of the ford University; J. A. Peterson of the University of Mon
marine Jurassic megafossil occurrences in North Amer tana; and many others. In Mexico, those providing data
ica (figs. 1-12). It presents charts depicting the succes included Gloria Alencaster de Cserna, Manuel Alvarez,
sion of ammonite taxa and Buchia species in North Jr., Abelardo Cantii Chapa, Edmundo Cepeda, D. A.
Cordoba, Zoltan de Cserna, Teodoro Diaz-Gonzalez, E. probably influenced in places by the Palisade disturb
J. Guzman Jimenez, Ernesto Lopez Ramos, Roberto Flo- ance, which is now definitely dated as Jurassic, rather
res Lopez, G. P. Salas, Hector Ochoterana F., Francisco than Triassic, by the presence of palynofloras of Early
Viniegra 0., and J. P. Alor, all of whom are affiliated Jurassic age from the top of the Newark Group (Cornet
with either Petroleos Mexicanos or the Institute Geolo- and others, 1973; Cornet and Traverse, 1975, p. 25-27).
gico de Mexico. This evidence is supported by some K-Ar dates for the
Special thanks are due George Pipiringos and Fred Palisades sill that intrudes the Newark Group in New
Peterson of the U.S. Geological Survey for sharing infor Jersey (Dallmeyer, 1975) and by K-Ar dates for lava
mation and exchanging interpretations concerning the flows in the middle of the Newark Group in the Hartford
stratigraphic relationships of Jurassic formations in the basin of Connecticut and the Deerfield basin of Massa
western interior region. chusetts (Armstrong and Besancon, 1970).
The writer is much indebted to John H. Callomon of Jurassic beds of considerable thickness have been
University College, London, England, and to Tove Birk- identified by means of microfossils found in deep wells
elund of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, for drilled along the Atlantic Coast of eastern Canada (Sher-
ammonite biostratigraphic data concerning the position win, 1973, p. 529, 534-537; Upshaw and others, 1974, p.
of the Bathonian-Callbvian boundary in East Greenland 1132). For the Nova Scotia shelf, the fossil evidence
and its probable position in Alaska and Montana. shows that the marine Lower and Middle Jurassic beds
are about 6,600 feet (2,012 m) thick, and those for the
Upper Jurassic are at least 8,200 feet (2,500 m) thick
PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC SETTING
(Mclver, 1972, p. 56-62). The sequence includes a basal
salt unit about 2,500 feet (760 m) thick that is dated as
ATLANTIC COAST probably earliest Jurassic on the basis of its microflora
Jurassic marine beds have not been identified defi and its stratigraphic continuity with overlying marine
nitely along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, al beds that are dated as Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian).
though 45 feet (13.7 m) of limy beds of possible Late Jur The Jurassic sequence may also include several hundred
assic age have been penetrated in two wells at Cape feet of red beds that are gradational upward into the
Hatteras, N.C. Three species of ostracodes have been main salt mass and that rest on metamorphosed sedimen
found, of which two, belonging to the genus Schuleridea, tary rock.
have been found elsewhere in the Schuler Formation In the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, microfossils of
(Upper Jurassic) of the southeastern United States; one Early to Late Jurassic age have been reported through
belongs to the genus Octocythere, which is known only out at least 20,000 feet (6,100 m) of beds penetrated by
from the Jurassic (Swain, 1952, p. 59, 60; Swain and drilling (Upshaw and others, 1974, p. 1132). These beds
Brown, 1972, p. 8, 9; Brown and others, 1972, p. 38). consist of clastic oolitic to dense limestone, gray to red
These possible Jurassic beds are about 370 miles (600 siltstone and mudstone, and limy fine-grained sandstone.
km) west of the marine Upper Jurassic sequence about In the Murre well, the Lower Jurassic is represented by
560 feet (170 m) thick that was cored at JOIDES Site 105 1,120 feet (341 m) of limestone whose basal 600 feet (183
in the Hatteras Abyssal Plain (Hollister and others, m) contains bedded anhydrite and some salt. In addition,
1972). It is about 60 miles (100 km) west of the western some salt, penetrated in two salt domes, has been inter
margin of Jurassic beds suggested by Emery and Uchupi preted as of Early Jurassic age or older (Bartlett and
(1972, p. 95). Smith, 1971, p. 67-69; Amoco, 1974, p. 1112-1115; Up
No drilling reports have yet been published that shaw and others, 1974, p. 1127-1129).
prove the presence of Jurassic beds along the Atlantic Studies of Foraminifera, ostracodes, dinoflagellates,
Continental Shelf of the United States. Nonetheless, spores, and pollen, obtained from well cutting on the Sco-
seismic data suggest the presence of thousands of feet of tian Shelf and the Grand Banks, show that the oldest
both Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous beds along the en dated beds are of Bathonian to Callovian Age (Ascoli,
tire shelf area from Maine to Florida (Ballard and Uchupi, 1974, p. 132, 133; Williams, 1974). The underlying salt-
1974, p. 1158; Schultz and Grover, 1974, p. 1164, 1165; bearing beds are referred to the Early Jurassic, how
Minard and others, 1974, p. 1172, 1176; Olson, 1974, p. ever, although the evidence for such dating is not yet
1196, 1197). Furthermore, salt concentrations in pre-Up- published (Jansa, 1974, p. 141).
per Cretaceous rocks in coastal areas between Delaware
and Florida suggest that evaporitic facies of possible Jur GULF OF MEXICO AND NEARBY REGIONS
assic age may be present seaward from the present
coastline (Mattic and others, 1974, p. 1182, 1183). Ma Thick Jurassic deposits are widespread in Mexico,
rine Jurassic sedimentation along the Atlantic Coast was the southern United States, and Cuba. Marine beds of
150° 140° 130° 30° 20° 10°
140°
130°
70°
120° 110°
FIGURE 1.—Jurassic basins of deposition in North America. Note small basins of continental deposition in central Michigan, northern New
Jersey, and Connecticut to southern Massachusetts. Land areas are ruled.
150° 140° 130° 30° 20° 10°

160°
170°
180°
170
130
120° 110° 100° 90° 80°
FIGURE 2.—Distribution of Hettangian fossils (X) and inferred seas in North America. Land areas are ruled.
150° 140° 130° 30° 20° 10°
140°
130
0 500 1000 KILOMETERS
120° 110° 100° 90° 80°
FIGURE 3.—Distribution of Sinemurian ammonites (X) and inferred seas in North America. Land areas are ruled.
150° 140° 130° 30° 20° 10°
160
130°
120° 80°
FIGURE 4.—Distribution of Pliensbachian fossils (X) and inferred seas in North America. Land areas are ruled.
150° 140° 130° 30° 20° 10°
130°
I I
120° 110° 100° 90°
FIGURE 5.—Distribution of Toarcian fossils (X) and inferred seas in North America. Land areas are ruled.
10 JURASSIC PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES
150° 140° 130° 30° 20° 10° 0°
CONTINENTAL PLANT-BEARIN
BEDS IN CUBA AND IN
EAST-CENTRAL MEXICO
120° 110° 100° 80°
FIGURE 6.—Distribution of Bajocian fossils (X) and inferred seas in North America. Land areas are ruled. Extent of early Bajocian sea in
western interior region is indicated by dotted line. Extent of late middle to late Bajocian sea in western interior region is indicated bv
solid line. J
PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC SETTING 11
150° 140° 130° 30° 20° 10°
160°
170°
130°
70°
120° 110° 100 90°
FIGURE 7.—Distribution of Bathonian fossils (X) and inferred seas in North America. Land areas are ruled. Extent of early Bathonian sei
in western interior region is indicated by dotted line. Extent of late Bathonian sea in western interior region is indicated by solid line.
Extent of late Bathonian tidal flat and continental deposits is indicated by dashed line.
150° 140° 130° 30" 20° 10°
130
70°
120° 110"
FIGURE 8.—Distribution of Callovian fossils (X) and inferred seas in North America. Land areas are ruled. Extent of earliest CaUovian sea
in western interior region is indicated by solid line. Extent of late middle Callovian sea (Curtis and Summerville time) is indicated by
dotted line. Extent of Callovian continental beds is indicated by dashed line. Possible extent of latest Callovian sea is indicated by
alternating dots and dashes.
150° 140° 130° 30° 20° 10°
160°
130°
70°
FIGURE 9.—Distribution of early to early middle Oxfordian fossils (X) and inferred seas in North America. Land are areas ruled.
150° 140° 130° 30° 20° '10°

160°
taer
70°
120° t10° 90° 80°
FIGURE 10.—Distribution of late middle Oxfordian to early Kimmeridgian fossils (ammonites and buchias) (X) and inferred seas in North
America. Land areas are ruled.
160° 140° 130° 30° 209 109
170°
180°
170°
COISTINENTAL
EPOSITS <ll
120° 110°
FIGURE 11.—Distribution of late Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian fossils (ammonites and buchias) (X) and inferred seas in North America.
Land areas are ruled.
150° 140° 130° 30° 20° 10° 0°
160
170
120° 110° 100° 90° 80°
FIGURE 12.-Distribution of late Tithonian fossils (ammonites and buchias) (X) and inferred seas in North America. Land areas are ruled.
Early Jurassic age occur in southern and east-central 1943a, p. 1411-1422; 1953a, p. 20^61, figs. 4, 5; Mur
Mexico and perhaps as far north as Catorce (Burckhardt, ray, 1961, p. 287-297; Khudoley and Meyerhoff, 1971,
1930, p. 8-44, 91-93; Erben, 1957a, 1957b). In last- p. 59-67; Maher and Applin, 1968, p. 9-11; Rainwater,
central Mexico, these beds contain ammonites of Sine- 1967). The Gulf of Mexico of that time must have had
murian and early Pliensbachian Age and were deposited marine connections with the Atlantic Ocean via Cuba and
in an embayment (Huayacocotla) that opened only to the southern Florida. It must also have been connected with
Gulf of Mexico, according to Erben (1957b, p. 38), but the Pacific Ocean either through southern Mexico or
only to the Pacific Ocean according to Viniegra 0. (1971, Central America, or both (Viniegra 0., 1971, p. 484,
p. 484) and Lopez Ramos (1974, p. 381^386). In south 486, fig. 10), judging from the similarities between the
ern Mexico, one ammonite of Early Jurassic age (late marine faunas in Mexico and California. The Gulf of Mex
Pliensbachian) from the state of Guerrero (Erben, 1954, ico during Late Jurassic time was separated from the
p. 5-12, pi. 1, figs. 4, 5) is the sole evidence for beds of seas in the western interior region by highlands that ex
that age near the Pacific Coast. Beds of Early Jurassic tended across parts of central Arizona and New Mexico
age have not been identified in Cuba or in the subsurface (Harshbarger and others, 1957, p. 43, 44).
of the southern United States.
Marine beds of Bajocian and Bathonian Age have PACIFIC COAST
been identified definitely in Mexico only in northwestern
Oaxaca and northeastern Guerrero (Burckhardt, 1927; Jurassic rocks near the Pacific Coast of Mexico have
1930, p. 25, 26; Erben, 1957a, p. 49, 50). They were de been found only in the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero, as
posited in an embayment (Guerrero) that probably opened discussed above, and in northwestern Sonora (Burck
into the Pacific Ocean rather than into the Gulf of Mexico hardt, 1930, p. 23, 24, 41, 42; Erben, 1957b, p. 36; King,
(Erben, 1956b, p. 122-124, pi. 17; 1957b, p. 39, fig. 2; 1939, p. 1645-1659; Imlay, 1952a, p. 972). Farther north
Viniegra 0., 1971, p. 484, 492). Marine beds of late Bath in the Pacific Coast region, many Jurassic outcrops are
onian Age may occur also in the subsurface of east-cen found between southern California and westernmost
tral Mexico near Tampico, as shown by the presence of Alaska.
some small ammonites similar to the late Bathonian Wag- Northward through Nevada and California into
nericeras (Cantii Chapa, 1969, p. 5). southwestern Oregon, the distribution of outcrops of the
Elsewhere in the Gulf region, a Bajocian to Bathon various stages indicates that the Jurassic seaways grad
ian Age seems probable for part of the San Cayetano ually shifted westward (Taliaferro, 1942, fig. 2 on p. 80;
Formation of Cuba (Meyerhoff, 1964, p. 152-153; Krom- Imlay, 1959a, p. 103-106). Thus, in the Sierra Nevada,
melbein, 1956; Khudoley and Meyerhoff, 1971, p. 37, 38) beds of Callovian Age extend westward beyond beds of
but most unlikely for the Louann Salt of the southern Bajocian and Early Jurassic age. Beds of Oxfordian to
United States or for similar bedded salt deposits of early Kimmeridgian Age occur with beds of Callovian
southeastern Mexico (Imlay, 1943a, p. 1438; 1953c, p. 7; Age in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada but crop out
Viniegra 0., 1971, p. 482). also at two places west of the Callovian beds (Santa Mon
Marine beds of Callovian Age have been found in ica Mountains and Klamath Mountains). Beds of Tithon
Mexico only in its east-central and southern areas ian Age crop out only in western California and in south
(Burckhardt, 1927; 1930, p. 26, 32-36, 43; Erben, 1956b, western Oregon. Only in southwestern Oregon have they
p. 12-16, 31, 38; 1957a, p. 46-50; Cantii Chapa, 1969, been found in the same sequence with beds of Oxfordian
p. 5, 6; 1971, p. 21-24, 36-38). Those beds in the east- to early Kimmeridgian Age.
central area may have been deposited in an arm of the In east-central Oregon is a thick Jurassic sequence
Gulf of Mexico (Erben, 1957b, fig. 2) but more probably (Dickinson and Vigrass, 1965), ranging in age from Het-
represent a transgression from the Pacific Ocean (Vinie tangian to early Callovian (Imlay, 1964a, 1968, 1973),
gra 0., 1971, p. 484, 492). Those beds in the southern that correlates faunally with thick Jurassic sequences in
area were deposited in waters that definitely connected the Sierra Nevada, California, and in the Cook Inlet re
with the Pacific Ocean (Erben, 1957b, p. 39^0, fig. 2). gion, Alaska. In extreme northeastern Oregon and in the
Marine beds of Callovian Age probably are also present adjoining part of Idaho, along the Snake River, are beds
in Cuba (Meyerhoff, 1964, p. 151, 152; Khudoley and of early Oxfordian Age containing Cardioceras (Imlay,
Meyerhoff, 1971, p. 60), but the fossil evidence has not 1964a, p. D6, D15). Of paleogeographical interest is the
yet been published. fact that rocks of that particular age have not been iden
Later Jurassic beds of Oxfordian to Tithonian Age tified in California or in southwestern Oregon but have
are widely distributed throughout the lands bordering been identified faunally at various places in British Co
the Gulf of Mexico (Burckhardt, 1930; Imlay, 1940b, lumbia, Alberta, Montana, and Alaska.
In Washington, Upper Jurassic beds have been found 59). The position of these landmasses coincides fairly well
only in three areas in the northern part of the State. with that of the Paleozoic Antlers uplift (Roberts and
Northward from Washington into Alaska, beds of Early, others, 1958, p. 2825, 2850, 2851). Similarly, other
Middle, and Late Jurassic age are widespread, although landmasses surrounding the Jurassic embayment on its
in some areas certain stages are not represented or have southern, eastern, and northern sides furnished most of
not been identified faunally. the clastic sediment that was deposited in the embay
ment.
WESTERN INTERIOR REGION Major marine transgressions took place during mid
dle to late Bajocian, late Bathonian to early Callovian,
Marine beds of Early Jurassic age have been identi and early Oxfordian time. Regressions occurred during
fied in the western interior region of Canada as far east early Bathonian, middle Callovian, and middle Oxfordian
as westernmost Alberta (Frebold, 1957, p. 5-12; 1964d, to early Kimmeridgian time. Sedimentation was inter
p. 24-26; 1969). They probably were never deposited rupted marginally during the Bathonian (Imlay, 1956a,
much farther east or southeast, and they have not been p. 564, 579-580) and regionally during the late Callov
found in the western interior of the United States. Faun- ian (Imlay, 1952b, p. 1747-1752; 1956a, p. 591; 1957, p.
ally, they represent only parts of the Sinemurian, Pliens- 475; 1967b, p. 53-57).
bachian,.and Toarcian Stages. The latest Jurassic marine regression began near the
Marine beds of earliest Bajocian Age have not been middle of Oxfordian time, as shown by the presence of
identified definitely by fossils in the western interior of the early Oxfordian ammonite Cardioceras less than 20
the United States or Canada. In fact, they have not even feet (6 m) below the base of the continental Morrison
been found in the eastern half of British Columbia along Formation of Late Jurassic age in the Wind River and
a line drawn from Whitesail Lake southeastward to Ta- Bighorn Basins.
seko Lakes (Frebold, 1951b, p. 18, 19; 1964d, p. 26; Fre Farther north in northwestern Montana and in Can
bold and Tipper, 1970, p. 9, 10). The projection of this ada, marine deposition continued into late Oxfordian or
line farther southeast coincides approximately with the early Kimmeridgian time, as shown by the presence of
easternmost occurrence of lower Bajocian beds in east Buchia concentrica (Sowerby) (Imlay, 1954, p. 60; 1956a,
ern Oregon. Nonetheless, an early to early middle Bajo p. 595; Frebold, 1953, p. 1238, 1239; 1957, p. 68, Frebold
cian Age for the Gypsum Spring Formation (or member) and others, 1959, p. 10, 11) considerably below the top of
in the western interior region is indicated by its position the marine sequence. Furthermore, near Fernie, British
unconformably below a limestone whose middle .and up Columbia, a large ammonite, Titanites, of early late Ti-
per parts contain late Bajocian ammonites (Imlay, 1967b, thonian Age has been found (Frebold, 1957, p. 36, 66, 67;
,p. 19, 26, 27). Frebold and Tipper, 1970, p. 14-17; Westermann, 1966).
By contrast, marine Jurassic beds of middle Bajocian It appears, therefore, that marine waters disappeared
to .late Oxfordian or early Kimmeridgian Age are wide from most of the western interior region of the United
spread in the western interior of the United States, and, States by the end of early Oxfordian time but persisted
with the exception of the late Bajocian, are equally wide in northern Montana into late Oxfordian time, and in the
spread in Canada. These beds were deposited in an em- western interior of Canada, until late Tithonian time.
bayment that spread eastward from the Pacific Coast re The characteristics and distribution of the Jurassic
gion across the northernmost part of the United States sediments were greatly influenced by tectonic features
and adjoining parts of Canada. At one time it was thought in the Jurassic embayment (Imlay, Gardner, and others,
.that the embayiment in the western interior of Canada 1948; Nordquist, 1955; McKee and others, 1956, pi. 8;
was partially separated from the Pacific Ocean by a land- Imlay, 1957, p. 470-477; J. A. Peterson, 1957, p. 401-
mass (Schuchert, 1923, p. 226, fig. 14; Crickmay, 1931, 404; 1972, p. 177). These include broad gentle uplifts in
p. 89, map 10) whose position coincided approximately north-central Montana (Belt Island) and west-central
with the present Rocky Mountain trench. Recently, how Colorado (Uncompahgre uplift); the large Williston basin
ever, Frebold (1954; 1957, p. 37-41; Frebold and others, in eastern Montana, western North Dakota, and adjoin
1959, p. 12-16) has presented evidence showing that ing parts of Canada; the Alberta trough extending north
such a landmass did not exist. In contrast with conditions ward from Belt Island across northwestern Montana far
in Canada, however, ample evidence exists that at least into Canada; the Twin Creek trough extending south
the southern part of the embayment in the western in from Belt Island along the Wyoming-Idaho border into
terior of the United States was bounded on the west by north-central Utah; the Sheridan arch extending north
low landmasses or islands, or both, which furnished some east from north-central Wyoming into southeastern
sand and pebbles from late Bajocian until Oxfordian time Montana and separating the Williston basin from the
(Imlay, 1950, p. 37-42; 1952c, p. 79-82; 1953d, p. 54- Powder River basin (J. A. Peterson, 1954a, p. 474, 477,
SUCCESSION OF AMMONITES AND BUCHIAS BY STAGES 19
489); and the Hardin trough (J. A. Peterson, 1954a, p. In western Nevada and eastern Oregon, the basal
474; 1957, p. 403), which connects the Williston basin Jurassic has furnished ammonite genera that specifically
with the Twin Creek trough across northwestern Wyo and stratigraphically correspond close to Hettangian am
ming. Of these tectonic features, Belt Island had the monites in Europe (Muller and Ferguson, 1939, p. 1611,
greatest influence on the marine currents, salinities, and chart opposite p. 1590; Corvalan, 1962; Hallam, 1965, p.
temperatures because of its geographic position and its 1485-1487, 1494). These include, in particular, the gen
large size, but it supplied very little clastic sediment (Im- era Waehneroceras and Psiloceras in the lower part of
lay, Gardner, and others, 1948; J. A. Peterson, 1957, p. the Hettangian sequence and the genera Schlotheimia,
403). Caloceras, and Alsatites in the upper part.
ARCTIC REGION
SINEMURIAN
Beds of Early to Late Jurassic age in northern Alaska In east-central Mexico, the highest and lowest parts
(Imlay, 1955) bear a succession of ammonites similar to of the Sinemurian are represented by ammonites closely
that in northern Canada (Frebold, 1958; 1960; 1961, p. similar to or identical with ammonites in Europe (Burck-
6-24; 1964a, c; Tozer, 1960, p. 9-12, 15, 19, 20). The hardt, 1930, p. 8-23; Erben, 1956a, p. 124-149; 1957a,
ammonite successions of these regions do not include any p. 44; Flores Ldpez 1967, p. 29, 30). No evidence exists,
ammonite faunules resembling those of middle to late Ba- however, for the presence of the European zones of
jocian, Bathonian, or late Callovian Age in northwest Caenisites turneri and Asteroceras obtusum (Hallam,
Europe. The Bathonian is represented faunally, how 1965. p. 1491-1493).
ever, by the ammonite genera Arcticoceras, Arctoce- In northwestern Mexico near El Antomonio, Sonora,
phalites, and Cranocephalites, as in East Greenland and the early Sinemurian is represented by Arnioceras (Im
arctic U.S.S.R. This age determination is based on their lay, 1952a, p. 973). Pelecypods of Hettangian or Sine
stratigraphic position below beds of early Callovian Age murian Age are present in west-central and southern
in Greenland (Callomon, 1959). Sonora (Burckhardt, 1930, p. 23, 24, 41, 42; King, 1939,
In southern Alaska, the basal Hettangian is repre p. 1655-1659, pi. 5). The late Sinemurian is probably
sented by the ammonite Waehneroceras at Wide Bay and represented by Crucilobiceras about 25 miles (40 km)
Puale Bay on the Alaska Peninsula, in the Seldovia area south-southeast of Caborca, on the basis of collections
south of Cook Inlet, and in the southern part of the made by L. T. Silver (California Inst. Technology).
Wrangell Mountains. Psiloceras occurs in those same In western Nevada, the Sinemurian succession is
mountains and also north of Old Rampart near the Por nearly the same as that in eastern Mexico; it has the
cupine River in northeastern Alaska. The Hettangian is same faunal gaps and includes similar species, some of
probably represented also on Hagermeister Island and in which may be identical with species in Mexico and Eu
the Kuskokwim area by pelecypods identical with species rope (Muller and Ferguson, 1939, p. 1611, 1612, table 3).
found in the basal Jurassic near Seldovia (Imlay and Det- Similar faunal successions have been found also in east
terman, 1973, p. 22). The lack of Hettangian ammonites ern Oregon, western and northwestern Canada, and
in most of northern Alaska is matched by a similar lack southern and northern Alaska. (See fig. 13.) Nearly all
in arctic Canada and in East Greenland. To date, the successions contain ammonites representing the highest
presence of Hettangian deposits in northern Alaska is and lowest parts of the Sinemurian (Frebold, 1957, 1959,
based on one specimen of Psiloceras (Franziceras) ob 1966. 1975; Frebold and Tipper, 1970) but lack any evi
tained from a core at the depth of 2,170.5 feet (661.6 m)dence for much of the middle part of the stage. Thus, the
in the South Barrow test well 12, about 10 miles (16 km) European Caenisites turneri zone has been identified
southeast of Point Barrow. only in the Wrangell Mountains, Alaska (Imlay and Det-
terman, 1973, p. 22); the Asteroceras obtusum zone, only
SUCCESSION OF AMMONITES AND BUCHIAS BY in southern British Columbia (Frebold, 1964d); and the
STAGES Oxynoticeras oxynotum zone, only in the Richardson
Mountains of northwestern Canada (Frebold, 1960, p.
HETTANGIAN
16, pi. 4, figs. 1^5).
In Mexico, the Hettangian Stage has not been iden
tified faunally. The presence of one ammonite similar to PLIENSBACHIAN
the Hettangian genus Psiloceras is not valid evidence of
such an age because of its association with the early Si- Ammonites of Pliensbachian Age have been found in
nemurian ammonite Coroniceras (Flores Ldpez, 1967, p. southeastern and south-central Mexico, western Nevada
26, 29, 30, pi. 8, fig. 1). (Muller and Ferguson, 1939, p. 1621, 1622; Silberling,
British Columbia,
Eastern and Western Nevada Canadian Rocky southern part,
Northwest European southern Mexico East-central Mountains including islands
ammonite zones (Mullerand (Frebold, 1969;
Stages (Erben, 1956a, Ferguson, 1939; Oregon (Frebold, 1964a, d;
(after Dean and others, 1961) 1957a; (Imlay, 1968) Frebold and Tipper, Frebold and
Hal lam, 1965} 1970)
Hallam, 1965) Tipper, 1970)
Catulloceras
Dumortieria lavesquei Grammoceras and Dumortierial Phylseogrammoceras Phylseogrammoceres
and and and
0)
Pseudotioceras Gremmoceras Grammoceras
§: Grammoceras thouersense
D
Heugia and
Toarcian Haugia variabilis Lower part Catecoeloceras Potyplectus Phymatoceras
of coal and and and
plant-bearing Dactylioceras
Hildoceras bifrons beds Paronoceres
Harpoceras falcifer Harpoceras Harpoceres

_l Nodicoeloceres cf. H. exaretum and cf. H. exaratum and
Dactylioceres Dactylioceres
Dactylioceras tenuicostetum
—————— ?——————
Pleuroceras spinatum Pleuroceras and
0, Arieticeras,Reynes-
a
D
Arieticeras
(Guerrero embayment Arieticeres
oceres, Peltarpites,
Prodactylioceras,
Dactylioceras
Ameltheus mergaritatus only) and Lepte/eoceras Ameltheus

Pliensbachian —————— ? ——————
Prodactylioceras devoei
0)
Tregophylloceras ibex Fanninoceres
_j 7
Uptonie jamesoni Acanth'opleuroceras ,
Uptonia? Uptonie? Phricodoceras Uptonia, Trfpidoceras
——————— ? ———————
Echioceras raricostatum
Crucilobiceres? Eoderoceras and Eoderoceras and Eoderoceres and Echioceres
r- ,3 nd
Echioceres Crucilobiceres Crucilobiceres Gleviceras'
&
0)
Oxynoticeras oxynotum Oxynoticeras Oxynoticeres
D f
Sinemuriart
Asteroceras obtusum Asteroceras
Caenisites turner!
——————?—————— f
Arnioceras semicostatum' Arnioceras Arnioceres, Arnioceres Arietites Coroniceras
_i Arietites, ——————— ? ——————— and bisulcatum and
Coroniceras, and Arnioceras
Arietites bucklandi Coroniceras Megerietites Arnioceres
Schlotheimia anguleta Psiloceras canadense,

Schlotheimia Schlotheimie Paracalo ceres , a nd
5 and Alsatites
o> and Alsatites Charm asseiceras
c Not exposed -\ ?
Probably absent
Alsatites liasicus
i Waehneroceras Waahneroceres Psiloceraf
aff. P. planorbis
Psiloceras planorbis and Psiloceres and Psiloceras
A. Mexico to southern British Columbia.

FIGURE 13.—SUCCESSION AND CORRELATION OF
1959, p. 26-29; Corvalan, 1962; Hallam, 1965, p. 1485- monites in the upper part of their range are some
1488), east-central California (Clark and others, 1962, specimens of Dactylioceras. This assemblage is charac
p. B19), east-central Oregon, both southern and north terized by an abundance of genera of the families Dac-
ern Alaska (fig. 13) (Imlay, 1952a, p. 981; 1955, p. 87; tylioceratidae and Hildoceratidae and by an absence of
Howarth, 1958, p. XXVI), and in western and north the Amaltheidae. In these respects this assemblage
western Canada. shows much more resemblance to the late Pliensbachian
The faunal evidence for the Pliensbachian in Mexico ammonites of the Mediterranean region than to those of
is meager. It consists only of two fragments resembling northwest Europe. Its age until recently was considered
Uptonia from Puebla (Erben, 1956a, p. 365, pi. 41, figs. to be early Toarcian (Hallam, 1965, p. 1485-1488; Dick-
14, 15) and of one specimen of Arieticeras from Guerrero inson and Vigrass, 1965, p. 37, 41), but the association
(Erben, 1954, p. 5, pi. 1, figs. 4, 5). of genera listed previously is excellent evidence for a late
Bed of early Pliensbachian Age have not been iden Pliensbachian Age.
tified faunally in Oregon or California, and their presence In Alaska, by contrast, the beds of late Pliensbachian
in Nevada is questionable. Beds of late Pliensbachian Age contain genera of the family Amaltheidae, such as
Age in Nevada contain the ammonite Arieticeras. Such Amaltheus and Pleuroceras, that are specifically identi
beds in Oregon and California contain the ammonites cal wit^h or closely similar to species in northwestern Eu
Reynesoceras, Arieticeras, Fontanelliceras , Canavaria, rope. Faunally, the late Pliensbachian ammonites of
Protogrammoceras, Fuciniceras, Leptaleoceras, Pro Alaska have much more in common with ammonites of
dactylioceras, Tragophylloceras, Fanninoceras, Lipar- that age in northwestern Europe than with ammonites in
oceras (Becheiceras), and Paltarpites, With these am Oregon and California.
Richardson and
Southern Yukon Southern Alaska Canadian East Greenland
Northern Alaska British Mountains,
and northern (Imlay, 1968; Imlay Arctic Islands (Rosenkrantz,
(Imlay, 1955; Imlay northwestern Canada Stages
British Columbia and Detterman, 1973} (Frebold, 1964a, b; Frebold (Frebold, 1960, 1934; Donovan,
and Detterman, 1973) 1964a, b, 1975)
(Frebold and Tipper, 1970) and others, 1967) 1957)
Catulloceras
and ———————? ———————
Grammoceras Peronoceras and Peronoceras and
Grammoceras Pseudolioceras
Pseudolioceras Pseudolioceras Pseudolioceras D
Haugia and compactile
Phymatoceras
and
Phymatoceras Toarcian
Peronoceras Dactylioceras. cf. Dactylioceras aff. Dactylioceras commune Dactyiloceras and
Dactylioceras D. commune D. commune and Harpoceras Catacoeloceras
cf. D. commune Dactylioceras cf. Harpoceras aff. Hilda ites and
——————— ? ——————— D. semicelatum H. exaratum Harpoceras 1
Pleuroceras?, Pleuroceras, Amaltheus, Pseudoamaltheus

Amaltheus, Paltar-
pites, Arieticeras,
and Paltarpites
Amaltheus margaritatus 1
0.
Leptaleoceras Amaltheus stokesi Amaltheus stokesi Amaltheus stokesi
Prodactylioceras Pliensbachian
davoei, Becheiceras Androgynoceras ?
>
_1
Uptonia, Apoderoceras,
Platypleuroceras ? and Acanthopleuroceras Uptonia jamesoni
Crucilobiceras Crucilobiceras Echioceras Echioceras arcticum
Oxynoticeras oxynotum Gleviceras plauchuti 1

Q.
Sinemurian
Microderoceras
7 ——————— ? ——————— f ,
Paracoroniceras Arnioceras Arnioceras Nonmarine beds
and f _1
Arniotites Coroniceras and
Coroniceras Coroniceras Arietitesl Charmasseiceras
Psiloceras canadense Henangian

Nonmarine beds
Psiloceras erugatas Waehneroceras Psiloceras

and Psiloceras
. B. Northern British Columbia to East Greenland.
HETTANGIAN TO TOARCIAN AMMONITES IN NORTH AMERICA.
In western Canada, most parts of the Pliensbachian Pliensbachian Age (fig. 13). They greatly resemble the
Stage are represented in at least one of the sequences ammonites in Toarcian beds in Europe in appearance and
exposed in the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, and in stratigraphic succession.
the northern Yukon. (See fig. 13.) The lower Pliens In western Nevada, Toarcian ammonites have been
bachian is best known from the Queen Charlotte Islands found at several places, and a fairly complete sequence
of Toarcian beds has been identified near Westgate
(Frebold, 1967a, p. 1146, 1147; Frebold and Tipper, 1970,
p. 4-6). The middle and upper Pliensbachian are best (Muller and Ferguson, 1939, p. 1621; Corvalan, 1962;
known from northern British Columbia and the southern Hallam, 1965, p. 1486-1488). At this place, correlation
Yukon (Frebold, 1964d, p. 25; Frebold and Tipper, 1970, with the lower, middle, and upper parts of the Toarcian
p. 6). Stage of Europe is furnished by the presence of an am
In arctic Canada, the Pliensbachian is represented monite succession consisting ofNodicoeloceras, Catacoe
to date only by an occurrence of Amaltheus stokesi in loceras, and Grammoceras. Of these, Nodicoeloceras oc
the British Mountains, Yukon Territory (Frebold and curs a few feet above Arieticeras of probable late
others, 1967). This species furnishes an accurate correPliensbachian Age, Catacoeloceras, about 165 feet (50 m)
lation with the upper Pliensbachian ammonite sequence above Arieticeras, and Grammoceras, about 125 feet (38
in northern Alaska and in Europe. m) higher than Catacoeloceras.
In east-central Oregon southwest of John Day, the
TOARCIAN lower and middle parts of the Toareian have not been
Ammonites of Toarcian Age have been found in the identified faunally. The upper Toarcian is represented,
United States in the same general areas as ammonites of however, by a few ammonites obtained from the basal
Standard zones in northwest Mexico (Burckhardt, 1927, Eastern Oregon and California Western interior region of Canadian Rocky Mountains
Europe (Callovian, after 1930; Arkell, 1956; Imlay, (Imlay, 1961, 1964a, 1973) United States (Imlay, (Frebold, 1957, 1963, 1964a, b;
Stages Callomon, 1964; Bathonian, 1952a; Erben, 1956b, 1952a,b,c, 1962b, 1967b) Frebold and Tipper, 1970)
after Torrens, 1965; 1957a; Cantu Chapa, 1963,
Bajocian,after Arkell, 1956; 1967, 1971)
and Gabilly and others, 1971}
Quenstedtoceres lamberti Quenstedtoceras collieri

1 Peltoceras (Metapeltocerasl)
a Peltoceres spp. (eastern California only)
D Peltoceres ethlete
£
•a Erymnocaras coronetum nebrascensi
ovian •a Erymnoceras mixtecorum Lilloettia cf. L. stantoni and
Pseudocadoceras grewingki Disconformity in Montana Gryphaea
"5
i Kosmoceras Jason and northern Wyoming
o Neuquenicerasl neogeeum,
Sigeloceras calloviense Reineckeia, Reineckeites, Lilloettie buckmani, Imlayo car as miettense
Xenocephelites vicarius,
Kepplerites cf . K. torrensi,
_i Mecrocephalites macrocephalus Eurycephalites boesei Iniskinites intermedius Kepplerites maclearni Kepplerites maclearni
and XenocephalHes
Clydoniceras discus Epistrenoceres K. cf. K, tychonis K. cf. K. tychonis
&a Oppelia aspidoides paracontrarium K. subitus £
D
Hecticoceras retrocostatum K. costidensus
Bathonian a> Morrisiceras morrisi Werrenoceres spp.,
•a Warrenoceres codyense
•a Gryphaeaimpres imar
Kepp/erites,and Cobbanites
i Gracilisphinctes progracilis Cobbenites and
Parareineckaia Parecephalites
sewtoothensis ParacephaHtes glabrescens
Zigzag iceras zigzag Zigzegiceras floresi and Cobbenites
o
7 ——————— ———|
Parkinsonia parkinsoni Schlites spinosus,
&
Q-
Garantiana garentiane
Parastrenoceres mixtaca Parechondroceres andrewsi,
and Gyphaea planoconvexa <
D Megasphaeroceres rotundum, Megasphaeroceres, Spiroceras,
Strenoceres subfurcatum Leptosphinctes? Leptosphinctes, Normannites, Stephanoceras, Stemmetoceras,
and Spiroceres bifurcetum and G. plenoconvexe fratema
Chondmceras ellani and Chondmceras cf. C. elleni Chondmceras allani,
Normannites undulatum Normannites crickmayi and and . • Stemmatoceras, Stephanoceras,
Stephanoceras humphriesianum and Stephanoceras Stemmatoceres arcicostatum Teloceras, and Zemisteohanus
Teloceras itinsae
Bajocian Dorset en sia oregonensis
a> ^
•a Otoites sauzei Arkelloceres and
•a Parabigotites crass/cost atus Stemmetoceras
i Papilliceras stantoni
Sonninia sowerbyi Euhoploceres modesta, Sonninia (Euhoplocerasf) and
Docidoceras, Eudmetoceras, Latiwitchellia gracilis
Graphoceres concavum freestrig ites and

Eudmetoceras Tmetoceres
1
scissum
Ludwigia murchisonae
Upper part of coal- and f
plant-bearing beds
Leioceras opalin urn
A. Mexico to western interior region.

part of the Snowshoe Formation (Dickinson and Vigrass, pi. 12, figs. 12-14). The early Toarcian is represented
1965, p. 49). Of these, Haugia, Polyplectus, and Gram also by Harpoceras cf. H. exaratum (Young and Bird)
moceras! were obtained about 75 feet (23 m) above the obtained from outcrops near the Sadlerochit River. The
base of the formation, Polyplectus and Catulloceras, late Toarcian is possibly represented by species ofPseu-
from 100 to 125 feet (30 to 38 m) above the base, and dolioceras resembling P. compactile Simpson (Imlay,
Dumortieria! , about 125 feet (38 m) above the base. At 1955, p. 89, pi. 12, figs. 17, 18, 21). The genus Pseudo-
one place, Tmetoceras was found 125-200 feet (38-61 m) lioceras, however, ranges from early Toarcian to early
above the base of the Snowshoe Formation. middle Bajocian and is not very useful as a guide fossil.
In the Talkeetna Mountains in south-central Alaska In western Canada, the early Toarcian is repre
northeast of Anchorage, the early Toarcian is repre sented by Harpoceras cf. H. exaratum (Young and Bird)
sented by both finely and coarsely ribbed species ofDac- and several species of Dactylioceras; the middle Toar
tylioceras, the middle Toarcian, by Haugia and Phy- cian, by Phymatoceras and Peronoceras; and the late
matoceras, and the late Toarcian, by Grammoceras. Toarcian, by Phylseogrammoceras, Grammoceras, and
Available collections do not include any specimens of Catulloceras (Frebold and Tipper, 1970, p. 17). These
Dumortierial or Catulloceras, such as characterized the ammonites correlate closely with the Toarcian ammonite
uppermost Toarcian beds in east-central Oregon. succession in southern Alaska.
In northern Alaska, the early Toarcian is repre In arctic Canada, the ammonite succession is like
sented by the ammonites Nodicoeloceras and Dactyli- wise similar to that in southern Alaska, except for the
oceras obtained at depths of 1,772 to 2,063 feet (540 to presence of Pseudolioceras in its upper part as in north
629 m) in the South Barrow test well 3, near Point Bar ern Alaska and East Greenland (Frebold, 1960, 1964b,
row (Imlay, 1955, p. 82, 87-88, pi. 10, figs. 6, 9-16, 1964c, 1975).
British Columbia and Southern Alaska (Imlay, 1953b, Richardson and East Greenland (Donovan,
Northern Alaska British Mountains, Canadian Arctic
southern Yukon (Frebold, 1962a,b, 1964b; Imlay and (Imlay, 1955; Imlay Islands (Frebold, 1957; Callomon, 1959;
1964a-d, 1967a,b; Frebold Detterman, 1973; Westermann, northwestern Canada Stages
and Detterman, (Frebold, 1964a-c; 1960, 1964a-d) Surly k and others, 1973)
and others, 1969; Frebold 1964, 1969)
and Tipper, 1970, 1975) 1973) Frebold and others,
1967)
Quenstedtoceras henrici
Absent 1
a
? Kosmoceras and Longaevicaras
Cadoceres sp. Cadoceras septentrionale, Cadoceras Kosmoceras £
Cadoceras (Stenocadoceras] Cadoceras (Stenocadocera.f) C. (Stenocadoceras) saptentrionale c
striatum, C. (S.) spp., stenoloboide and and a
;anadanse,and >
Pseudocadoceras spp. Lilloettia stantoni
V ylloceras bakeri / Pseudocadoceras i 1
Lilloettia buckmani, Sigaloceras calloviensa u
Cadoceras catostoma, Cadoceras catostoma,
C. (Paracadoceras} __ 1 .
Kepplerites , Cadoceras,
Psaudocedoceras,and
C. (Paracedoceras)
tonniense, and
Lilloettia buckmani ' ' ' Cadoceras cf. C. septentrionale
Cadocaras n. sp.
I
Cadoceras n. so.
Disconfyrmjty^---^j(jnitas Cadoceras calyx
Cadoceras variabila 1
a
D
Arcticoceras n. sp.
a> Bathonian
Arcticoceras ishmae Arcticocaras ishmae Arcticoceras ishmae Arcticocaras ishmae •o
y 3
Arctocephalites cf. A. alegans Arctocephalites cf. Arctocephalites spp. Arctocephalites spp. Arctocephalitas greenlandicus
A. alegans Arctocephalites arcticus
CranocaphalHas spp Cranocephalites Cranocephalites Cranocaphalites pompeckji
litas ignekensis >
Cranocaphalites costidensus C. costidensus Cranocephalites sp. Cranocephalites indistinctus I
Angular unconformity on Cranocephalites borealis Cranocephalites borealis

Iniskin Peninsula
I
a
D
Zemistephanus, Cobbanites, Megasphaeroceras rotundum,
and Megasphaeroceras? Leptosphinctes.and Normannitas I
Normannites crickmayi, Chondroceras allani,
Teloceras itinsae, and Normannites crickmayi,
Zamistephanus richardsoni and Teloceras itinsae
Stephanoceras kirschneri
————— > _____ ————————— 7 —————————
a> .§
'I
Parabigothas crassicostatus Arkelloceras Arkelloceras Arkelloceras
and Arkelloceras i m
?
Wfcchellia (LaHw/tchelliat). Docidoceras widebayensa
Guhsania be/la, and Sonninia and Sonninia
Erycitoides howelli, Erycitoides howelli, Erycitoides cf.
Erycites and Tmetoceras Pseudolioceras whiteavesi. Pseudolioceras
and Tmetoceras scissum whiteav'asi
E. howelli .
Pseudolioceras
Pseudolioceras maclintocki and
maclintocki Leioceras opalinum
B. British Columbia to East Greenland.

BAJOCIAN TO CALLOVIAN AMMONITES IN NORTH AMERICA.
BAJOCIAN succession of ammonite genera from Tmetoceras at the

The only Bajocian ammonites found in southern Mex base up to Teloceras is remarkably similar to that in Eu
ico are from upper Bajocian strata in northeastern Guer- rope and in other parts of the world. Exceptions include
rero and northwestern Oaxaca. Of these, Normannites a few genera that have been found only in areas border
(Burckhardt, 1927, p. 22, pi. 12, figs. 1-4), in association ing the Pacific Ocean (Imlay, 1965, fig. 1 on p. 1024).
with Stephanoceras, could represent the Stephanoceras Among such genera are Pseudotoites, Parabigotites, and
humphriesianum zone of Europe, or the next younger Zemistephanus, which occur in stratigraphic succession
zone. Leptosphinctesl (Burckhardt, 1927, pi. 11, figs. 11, associated respectively with the genera Docidoceras,
12) could represent the early late Bajocian. Parastreno- Otoites, and Teloceras.
ceras mixteca Ochoterena F. (Ochoterena F., 1963, p. 7, In both southern Alaska and Oregon, beds of late Ba
pi. 1; Burckhardt, 1927, pi. 16, figs. 10, 11, 16) probably jocian Age are identified by the presence of Leptos-
represents some part of the late Bajocian younger than phinctes and Sphaeroceras. In Oregon, associated am
the beds containing Normannites. monites include Spiroceras, Normannites, and Megas
Fairly complete and closely similar ammonite succes phaeroceras. In southern Alaska, associated ammonites
sions of Bajocian Age have been found in east-central Or include Megasphaeroceras, Oppelia (Lyroxyites), and
egon (Imlay, 1973, p. 16-31, figs. 3-8) and in southern Normannites (Imlay, 1962a). Of these, Megasphaero
Alaska (Westermann, 1964, 1969; Imlay, 1962a, 1964b; ceras and the subgenus Lyroxyites are known
Imlay and Detterman, 1973, p. 23-24). In neither area only from North America. The presence of Normannites
is there any faunal evidence for the earliest Bajocian suggests that the fauna is not younger than the earliest
(Lioceras opalinum zone). Otherwise, in both areas, the late Bajocian.
Nqrthwest European ammonite Cuba (Imlay, 1942, 1943&, Eastern1 and. northern Mexico
zones (Arkell, 1956; CaHomon,1 964; 1952a; Burckhardt, 1930; Gulf region of United (Irnlay, 1943», b,1952a,1953c, California, Oreqon.and Western interior United
'Stages Enay, 1964, 1971, 1972; Cope, Jaworski, 1940; Judoley States (Imlay, 1943a, 1945) T961; Erben, 1957a; Cantii western Idaho (Imlay, States (Imlay; 1947, 1948;
1967; Enav anrf others, 1971; and FurrazQla-Bermudez, Chapa,1963, 1967, 1971; 1961, 1964a; Imlay and 1952a, b, c, 1966% b;
Saks and Shulgina, 1972) 1965)1968; Berrnudez;T961; Bridges, 1965; Burckhardt, Jones, 1070) Reaside,19ia)
Arkell, 1956) 1906, 1&12, 1919,1927,1930)
Substeueroceras:
BerriaseUe ^-o Pronicaras, Buchia
Substeueroceras, ts § Sprticeras, aff.
Substeueroceras Aulacosphinctes , ^~ Parodontoceras^ B.okensis
Protacanthodiscus , jjgw
Proniceras, and |§ « 5 Buchia
Spit/ceres-, | fischar-
Protancyc/oceras fCoo Parodontoceras^ iana
a
Q>
Durangrtes vu/garis, \. Kossmatia victoris, 8 i «?
3 Titanites giganteus Parodontoceras butt/, Durangitas vu/garis, §§S BucMa
Parodontoceras butti, g h^ Kossmatia piochii
Corongoceras, Simocaras,
Glaucolithites gorei Protaneyloceras, Lytohoplftes, Dickersonia, Sinmcarast gj|
Virgatosphinctes , Virgatosimoceras, ij"r
Metahapioceras, Dickersonia, LytohopJites, Sg
Zaraiskites albani Micracanthocaras, andPseudO;. Pseudolissoceras zfttali, £g
Tithortian i lissoceras zfcteli i
Pavlovia pallasioid&s
Virgetosphinctes and
Pavlovia rotunda Subp/anites
Virgatosphinctes,
Pectinatites pectinatus Aulacosphinctoides,
Torquatisphinctes ,
Q> Subp/anites, Angular Continental beds
Arkellites hudlestoni Pseudolissoceras unconformity
_1 (rere),and
Virgatoaphinctoides wheatleyensis Mazapilites
Virgatosphinctoides scitulus
Virgatosphinctoides elegans Hybonoticaras

Aulacostephanoceras
acutissiodorensis
Aulacostephanus eudoxus Glochiceras fialar, Buchia
Kimmeridgian 1
Q.
Glochiceras fialar mosquensisr,ar\d Buchia
Rasenia mutabilis Idoceras cf. /. durangense
Idoceras cf. /. balderum Idoceras cf. 1.. balderum Idoceras and
> Amoeboceras
Rasenia cymodoce (Amoebites)
1 Ataxioceras, Rasenia, and dubium cBuchi
oncentrica
Pictonia baylei Ataxioceras Sutneria cf. S. platynota
Ringsteadtia pseudocordata Discosphinctes carribeanus, Discosphinctes cf . D. Discosphinctas carribeanus ,

Ochetoceras canaliculatum carribeanus, Ochatoceras canaliculatum ,
var, Dichotomosphinctas, Dichotom osphinctes Discosphinctes Buchia concantrica in
Decipia decipiens Dichotomosphinctes Orthosphinctes, plicatiloides, and northwestern Montana
3
virgulatiformis
p/icatiloides, Ochetoceras Euaspidoceras and
Perisphinctes cautisnigrae Orthosphinctas, Decipia, canaliculatum,and Dichotomosphinctas
Oxfordian Arisphinctes, Perisphinctes, Euaspidoceras muhlbachi
a>
Euaspidocaras, and Dichotomosphinctes
•D Gregaryceras trensversarium Aspidoceras durangensis
T3
i Perisphinctes plicatilis Cardioceras spp.
& Cardioceras cordatum ——————— ? ——————— Cardioceras cordiforme

_i Quenstedtoceras mariae
Cardioceras(Scarburgiceras)
martini (only in Idaho)
Scarburgicaras and
Pavloviceras
A. Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Coast, and western interior region.

The Bajocian is poorly represented in the western The presence of Megasphaeroceras furnishes a correla
interior of the United States. A middle Bajocian Age, tion with lower upper Bajocian beds in southern Alaska.
probably corresponding to the European zone of Ste- The overlying beds (Rich Member) of the Twin Creek,
phanoceras humphriesianum, is shown by one specimen containing Parachondroceras saidSohlites (Imlay, 1967b,
of Chondroceras and several fragments of Stemmato- p. 31), are correlated with the uppermost Bajocian on the
ceras from the basal part of the shale member of the basis of stratigraphic position and the resemblances of
Sawtooth Formation exposed at Swift Reservoir in the ammonites to genera of Bajocian Age.
northwestern Montana (Imlay, 1948, p. 19, pi. 5, figs. In northern Alaska, only the lower Bajocian and part
1-5; 1967b, p. 28). A late Bajocian Age is shown by an of the middle Bajocian have been identified. The Euro
association of Spiroceras, Stemmatoceras, Stephano- pean zone ofLioceras opalinum is probably represented
ceras, and Megasphaeroceras in the upper part of the by Pseudolioceras maclintochi (Haughton) (Wester-
lowermost limestone (Sliderock Member) of the Twin mann, 1964, p. 422-424; Imlay, 1955, p. 89, pi. 12, figs.
Creek Limestone near the border of Wyoming and Idaho 15, 16), which in arctic Canada has been found with Lio-
(Imlay, 1967b, p. 28, 29). The association of the first ceras opalinum (Reinecke) (Frebold, 1958, p. 23; 1960,
three genera in the Twin Creek Limestone, by compari p. 28). The European zone of Tmetoceras scissum is
son with the European faunal succession, indicates a probably represented by one fragment of Tmetoceras ob
correlation with the basal part of the upper Bajocian. tained from a test well (Imlay, 1955, p. 89, 90) and by
Canadian Rocky Mountains British Columbia and • Southern Masks dm lay, Northern Alaska (Imlay, Arctic Canada (Frebold, East Greenland (After Spath, Stages
(Frebold, 1964a; FrebQld and southern Yukon <frebo»d, 1963b, 1961; Im lay and 1955; Imlay and 1964a; Jeletzky, 1965, 1966) 1935,1936; Arkell, 1956;
others, 1959; Frebold and t964a;Frebotd and Tipper, Detterman, 1973) Oetterman, 1973) Oonovan, 1957)
Tipper, T970) 1970; Jeletzky, 1965)
Craspeetftes aff . Chetatites chelae

canadensis and
Buchia tf. B. fischeriana Buchia fischeriana Buchia unscherrsis and Buchia unschensis Subcraspedites cf. S.
Buchia ci B. fischeriana Buchia fischeriana p/tcompha/us
Buchia fischeriana and
Buchia piochii •j» Buchia richardsonensis
f ? 1
a
D
Titan&es occidentaHs Buchia piochii and Buchia piochii
and Buchia piochii Buchia blemfordiana
Laugeftes vogulicus
f ——————— ? ———————— ^
Claucolithites 1
Tithonien
f
Pavlovia and Buchia §
mosquensis o
Q
Pectinatites
Buchia Buchia Buchia rugosa and Buchia rugosa and Buchia mosquensis
mosquensis mosquensis 'Buchia mosquensis Buchia mosquensis 1
SuhpJanitesl
a
a
a Kimmeridgian
Z)
; Hoplocsrdioceras
BnCj Euprionoceras
•8 Buchia <u
Buchi
concentrica concentrica Rasenia
1 _i
Amoeboceras and Amoeboceras and Amoeboceras Amoeboceras § Amoeboceras and
Buchia concentrica Buchia concemrica (Peionodoceras) (Prionodoceras) „ Buchia concentrica
spiniferum and
Dichotomosphina.es Amoeboceras S
I (Prionodocaras)
a.
n.
O
and
Ringsteattm
Oxford
ian
.2
'? ?
7 i
Cardioceras and Cardioceras
Go/iathiceras (Sub vertebriceras } canadense Cardioceras distans Cardioceras
Cardioceras (Scarburgiceras) Cardioceres (Scarburgiceras) Cardioceras (Scarburgiceras) Cardioceras (Scarburgiceras) _i
martini martini
B. Southwestern Canada to East Greenland.

OXFORDIAN TO TITHONIAN AMMONITES IN NORTH AMERICA.
several specimens of Erycitoides obtained from outcrops northern Alaska, the only middle Bajocian ammonite
(Imlay, 1955, p. 90, pi. 13, figs. 12, 13). The middle Ba- present is Arkelloceras.
jocian is represented only by Arkelloceras, whose age is
based on stratigraphic occurrences on the Alaska Penin
BATHCPNIAN
sula (Imlay, 1964b, p. B18, B53) and in the Canadian
Rocky Mountains (Westermann, 1964, p. 405-409; Fre Lowermost and uppermost Bathonian sediments have
bold and others, 1967, p. 20). been identified in northeastern 'Guerrero and northwest
Bajocian ammonites in the Canadian Rocky Moun ern Oaxaca, Mexico, on the basis of ammonite evidence.
tains, British Columbia, and southern Yukon bear close These beds were deposited in .an embayment (Guerrero)
resemblances specifically and stratigraphically to the Ba from the south that apparently connected with the Pa
jocian ammonites in eastern Oregon and in southern cific Ocean and did not extend to the Gulf of Mexico (Er-
Alaska. The main difference is the rarity in western Can ben, 1957b, p. 35, 39, fig. 2). The -earliest Bathonian is
ada of ammonites of early and late Bajocian Ages and of represented by Zigzag'iceras floresi Burckhardt (Burek-
the Otoites sauzei zone of the middle Bajocian. hardt, 1927, p. .25, pi. 12, figs. 14-16, 18-20; Arkell,
In arctic Canada, the Bajocian ammonite sequence is 1956, p. 564; Erben, 1956b, p. 110,122; 1957a, p. 50) and
identical with that in northern Alaska, except for the the latest Bathonian, by Epistrenoceras paracontrarium
presence of Leioceras opalinum near the base. As in
Argentina
Northwest Europe Southern Europa
Staga {Enay, 1971, 1972) (Gerth, 1925; Weaver, 193
(Enay, 1971, 1972) Leanza, 1945; Arkell, 193
Substeueroceras
koeneni
Paraulacosphinctes
transitorius
7
Corongoceras alternant
Titan ites giganteus

D
Glaucolithites gorei Pseudovirgatites

scruposus
Windhauseniceras
interspinosum
Zaraiskites albani
•»
Pavlovia pallisioides
Tithonian
Pseudolissocaras Pseudolissoceras
bavaricum zitteli
Pavlovia rotunda
>
Sublithacoceras
penicillatum
Pectinatftes Virgatosphinctes
pectinatus mendozanus
Franconites vimineus
———————— ? —————
Arkellites
_i hudlestoni
Dorsoplanitoides
triplicatus
Virgatosphinctoides
wheatleyensis
Virgatosphinctoides
scitulus Hybonoticeras
hybonotum
and
Glochiceras
Virgatosphinctoides lithographicum
elegans
FIGURE 16.—COMPARISONS OF THE TITHONIAN
(Burckhardt) (Burckhardt, 1927, p. 80, 94, 95, pi. 16, lantic Ocean (Erben, 1957b, p. 35, 39, fig. 2), or west
figs. 14, 15; Arkell, 1956, p. 564; Erben, 1956b, p. 119; ward with the Pacific Ocean, or both.
1957a, p. 50). In the United States, the assignment of certain beds
The latest Bathonian is probably also represented in to the Bathonian is based mainly on stratigraphic posi
the subsurface of northern Veracruz by some small am tion, as the ammonites present are mostly generically
monites resembling Wagnericeras (Cantii Chapa, 1969, different from those in the typical Bathonian of Europe.
p. 5). This occurrence is in the Huayacocotla embayment, In eastern Oregon, southwest of John Day, the Bath
which may have been connected eastward with the At- onian is represented by beds containing Cobbanites, Par-
Subd&yo^^ftfioiQE AMMONITES ANE BUCHIAS BY STAGES
Russian platform
27
Mexico (Imlay, 1952a; (Gerasimov and
Erben, 1957a; Cantti Judoley Imlay Mikhailov, 1967; Stage
Cantu Zeissi and
Chapa, 1967, 1971) Enay, 1964 Chapa, 1968 Furrazola- and Enay, Saks and Shulgina, 1964;
Jones, Enay, 1971 Saks and others, 1968)
1967, Bermtidez, 1972
1971 1968 1970
Craspedites nodiger
Substeueroceras Upper Upper Upper k

Craspedrtes subditus
and tt
Proniceres Upper
Kecbpurites fulgens
•» Upper Uppar
Upper Uppar Upper
Epivirgatftes nikftini
Kossmatia,
Durangftes,
Lytohoplites, and Virgatites virgatus
"^seudolissoceras zitteli
£
Middle Zaraiskftes
Middle
zarajskensis
Middle
Dorsoplanites c
Middla panderi .5
•5*
Pavlovia
Subplanites, Middle pavlovi >
Pseudolissoceras,
and Middle
Virgatosphinctes
Subplanites
' 7 ( llowaisKya;
pseudosycthica
Lower Lower Lower

Mazapilites,
Virgatosphinctes,
and
Subdichotomoceras Subplanites 1
Lower Lower Lower (=Howaiskya) o
s ykolovi
Lower Lower
Lower
Hybonoticeras Subplanites klimovi
AND VOLGIAN STAGES AND THE SUGGESTED SUBDIVISIONS OF THE TITHONIAN.
areineckeia, and Choffatia beneath beds containing Lil- acephalites differs from Arctocephalites and Cranoce-
loettia buckmani (Crickmay) and Reineckeia. phalites, according to Frebold (1963, p. 8), by having a
In the western interior of North America, the early wider umbilicus that opens up at a later growth stage
to middle Bathonian is probably represented by the am and by retaining ribbing later on the adult body cham
monites Paracephalites (Frebold, 1963, p. 5, 8-13, 27- ber. Its Bathonian Age is based primarily on strati-
29) and Cobbanites. In western Montana, Paracephalites graphic position beneath beds containing Cadoceras and
includes the species formerly referred to as Arctocephal- Kepplerites, of early Callovian Age (Frebold, 1963, p.
ites (Cranocephalites) (Imlay, 1962b, p. C24, C25). Par 29-31; Imlay, 1962b, p. C19). The age of Paracephalites
must be about the same as that of Cranocephalites in with Lilloettia and Xenocepkalites (Imlay, 1953a, p. 8,
Alaska, as both are associated with Gryphaea impressi- 18, 19, 25, pis. 1, 15, 16, and part of 17), Such an associ
marginata McLearn and with the lowest occurrences of ation by comparison with ammonites of southern Alaska
Cobbanites (Imlay, 1962b, tables 5 and 6). (Imlay, 1975, p. 6, 14) is definitely of early Callovian
The late Bathonian in the western interior of North Age. In feet, with one exception, Xenocephalites in
America is represented by species that were once as Alaska is not known above the basal part of the range of
signed to Arcticoceras by Imlay (1953a, p. 19-22) be Lilloettia or Kepplerites.
cause of their general resemblance to that genus in shape In southern Alaska between Cook Inlet and the
and rib pattern. They were subsequently assigned to a Wrangell Mountains the early to early middle Bathonian
new genus, Warrenoceras (Frebold, 1963, p. 13, 14), that is probably represented by Cranocephalites, Arctoce-
differs from Arcticoceras in its narrower umbilicus, less phalites, Parareineckeia, and Cobbanites (Imlay, 1962b,
sharp ribs, absence of constrictions, and broader ele p. C20). The sequence containing these ammonites rests
ments of the suture line, and by becoming smooth at a unconformably on beds of early late Bajocian Age and is
much earlier growth stage. These differences do not jus overlain disconformably by beds of early Callovian Age
tify more than a subgeneric status for Warrenoceras un (Imlay, 1962b, p. C2, C3; Detterman and Hartsock, 1966,
der Arcticoceras, according to J. H. Callomon (written p. 35, 40, 42). Arcticoceras has not yet been found in the
commun., 1972). sequence, but the time during which it lived could be rep
The exact age of Warrenoceras is not known. Its resented locally near the top of the sequence or by the
general resemblance to Arcticoceras suggests, however, disconformity at the top.
that it is either a provincial time equivalent of Arctico In northeastern Alaska, the Bathonian is repre
ceras or is a descendant. If so, it could be of the same sented, in ascending order, by Cranocephalites spp.,
age or could be younger. Its association with Cadoceras Arctocephalites cf. A. elegans Spath, and Arcticoceras
suggests that it is younger than the typical Arcticoceras ishmae (Keyserling) (Imlay and Detterman, 1973, p. 18,
of the Arctic region. Against such a suggestion, how 24, fig. 14). These fossils should represent most of the
ever, is the fact that all species of Cadoceras in the west stage, because the ammonite sequence is similar to that
ern interior of North America have a rounded instead of in East Greenland (Callomon, 1959, p. 507, 508).
a sharp umbilical edge (Imlay, 1953a, p. 3; 1953b, p. 45) Concerning the age ranges of these genera in the arc
and hence may not have the same age significance as Ca tic region, Spath (1932, p. 145) placed Arcticoceras in the
doceras proper. Furthermore, the exact time relation Callovian and Arctocephalites in the Bathonian. Arkell
ships of Warrenoceras to the older Paracephalites are (1956, p. 527) placed both genera as well as the somewhat
uncertain because of the presence of a disconformity of older Cranocephalites in the Callovian. Callomon (1959),
unknown magnitude at the base of the Warrenoceras - on the basis of field studies in East Greenland, assigned
bearing beds in Montana, northern Wyoming, and west all three genera to the Bathonian and suggested that the
ern South Dakota (Imlay, 1962b, p. C9). Nonetheless, earliest occurring species of Cranocephalites might be as
the association of Cobbanites with Warrenoceras in Al old as latest Bajocian. He based these age assignments
berta (Frebold, 1963, p. 5) indicates a Bathonian Age, on the position of the Arcticoceras -bearing beds in East
because Cobbanites in southern Alaska has not been Greenland directly beneath beds that, according to him,
found above beds of Bathonian Age and is closely related contain a varied ammonite fauna closely similar to and in
to the late Bajocian genus Vermisphinctes. part identical with the fauna in the Macrocephalites ma-
The late Bathonian in the northern part of the west crocephalus zone of earliest Callovian Age in northwest
ern interior region may be represented also by species of ern Europe. He discounted the presence of Cadoceras
Kepplerites that were assigned previously to "Goweri- and Kepplerites at the top of the range of Arcticoceras,
ceras" costidensus Imlay, "G." subitum Imlay, and although both Cadoceras and Kepplerites are normally
Kepplerites cf. K. tychonis Ravn (Imlay 1953a, p. 7, 8). considered good evidence for a Callovian Age. Subse
This age is indicated by the close resemblance of K. cos quently, Callomon (written commun., August 1972) de
tidensus to an undescribed species (No. 3149 in Geologi termined that in Greenland the ranges of Cadoceras and
cal Museum, Univ. Copenhagen) from the Kepplerites ty Arcticoceras do not overlap but that Kepplerites does
chonis zone on Fossil Mountain, East Greenland; by the occur as low as the upper part of the range of Arctico
resemblance of K. cf. K. tychonis Ravn (Imlay, 1948, p. ceras above Arcticoceras ishmae (Keyserling) (Callomon
16, 25, pi. 8, figs. 3, 4, 6) to K. tychonis (Ravn) (Ravn, and others, 1972, p. 18, 19; Donovan, 1957; Surlyk and
1911, p. 490, pi. 37, fig. 1) from East Greenland; and by others, 1973).
the occurrence of these ammonites in Montana below In arctic Canada, the Bathonian is represented by an
beds characterized by K. maclearni Imlay in association ammonite sequence that is nearly identical with that in
Bathonian beds in East Greenland but that contains dif Pseudocadoceras, and Kepplerites are definitely identi
ferent species of Cranocepkalites from those known in fied south of British Columbia. The family Phyllocerati-
northern Alaska. These differences probably reflect in etee is fairly common throughout the region and is rep
adequate collecting. resented by several genera or subgenera that occur
nearly worldwide. With these occur some genera of en
CALLOVIAN demic or Pacific affinities, including Lilloettia, Xenoce
phalites, and Parareineckeia. In addition, a few ammo
In Mexico, Callovian ammonites have been found in nites present belong to the genera Oppelia, Grossouvria,
the south-central part (Guerrero embayment) and in the Procerites, and Choffatia, all of which are nearly world
east-central part (Huayacocotla embayment) (Erben, wide. The succession of genera and species is similar
1957b, fig. 2). In the east-central part, the early Callov throughout the Pacific Coast region. Faunal evidence for
ian is represented by Kepplerites (Cantii Chapa, 1969, p. beds of late Callovian Age is completely lacking north of
3) from a well core in Veracruz; the late early Callovian, east-central California, except for one occurrence in Brit
by Neuqueniceras neogaeum and Reineckeia (Imlay, ish Columbia (Frebold and Tipper, 1975, p. 149, 156).
1952a, p. 970; Erben, 1956b, p. 39; Cantii Chapa, 1971, In the western interior region, only the early and
p. 21) from the Necaxa area of Puebla; and the middle very latest Callovian is represented by ammonites (Fre
Callovian, by Erymnoceras cf. E. mixtecorum from bold, 1957, p. 19-27; 1963; Imlay, 1953a). The early Cal
slightly higher beds in the Necaxa area (Erben, 1957a, lovian ammonites include Imlayoceras, Lilloettia, Xeno
p. 47). In south-central Mexico (Oaxaca and Guerrero), cephalites, and Grossouvria and are dominated by the
the Callovian ammonite sequence is essentially the same, families Cardioceratidae, Macrocephalitidae, and Kos
but also includes Peltoceras at the top, and Eurycephal- moceratidae. Despite some generic resemblances with
ites and Xenocephalites at the base. ammonites from the Pacific Coast region, there appear
The Callovian ammonite sequence in Mexico (see fig. to be no species in common; the families Phylloceratidae
14) is similar to that in the Callovian of Chile (Hille- and Lytoceratidae are unknown from the western inte
brandt, 1970, p. 176, 190, 202) and likewise includes taxa, rior, and the genus Imlayoceras Frebold (Frebold, 1963,
characteristic of the Pacific Realm, such as Xenocephal p. 20) has been found only in that region.
ites, Eurycephalites, and Neuqueniceras. The presence The latest Callovian in the western interior region is
of Xenocephalites and the close resemblance of Euryce represented by Quenstedtoceras (Lamberticeras) collieri
phalites to Lilloettia (Hillebrandt, 1970, p. 202) show Reeside from the Little Rocky Mountains and Bearpaw
that the lower Callovian of Mexico contains some am Mountains in north-central Montana. Recent collecting
monites similar to those in the lower Callovian of Ore shows that it underlies and does not occur with Cardi-
gon, British Columbia, and southern Alaska. oceras as previously stated (Imlay, 1948, p. 16, 17).
Ammonites of Callovian Age have been found in the In the arctic region of Alaska and Canada, the Cal
United States in southern and northeastern California, lovian is represented by typical species of Cadoceras that
east-central Oregon, western Idaho, Alaska, and in the are associated with C. (Stenocadoceras) and Phylloceras
northern part of the western interior region. bakeri Imlay in the Richardson and British Mountains,
A few ammonites found in Callovian beds in Califor Yukon Territory, Canada. This association, plus the ab
nia are closely related to ammonites from Mexico and the sence of Kepplerites, favors correlation with the upper
Tethyan Realm. These California specimens include the part of the Paveloff Siltstone Member of the Chinitna
early Callovian genera Macrocephalites and Hectico- Formation in southern Alaska (Detterman and Hartsock,
ceras from the Santa Ana Mountains in southern Califor 1966, p. 48). That upper part is dated as middle to early
nia (Imlay, 1963; 1964c, p. 508) and the late Callovian late Callovian on the basis of the European range of C.
genus Peltoceras from the Sierra Nevada in east-central (Stenocadoceras), the presence of C. (Longaevicerasl)
California (Imlay, 1961, p. 27, pi. 6). None of these have pomeroyense (Imlay) near the top of the member, and
been found farther north in the Pacific Coast region. the absence of Kepplerites in its upper half. Similarly,
Most of the Callovian ammonite faunas in the Pacific the Cadoceras-bearing beds in arctic Alaska and Canada
Coast region from British Columbia northward to Alaska are probably of middle Callovian Age because Keppler
are dominated by genera of the Boreal families Cardi- ites is unknown above the lower Callovian (Callomon,
oceratidae and Kosmoceratidae, including Iniskinites, 1964, p. 274, 275), Cadoceras proper is unknown above
Cadoceras proper, Stenocadoceras, Paracadoceras, the middle Callovian (Callomon, 1955, p. 255; 1964, p.
Pseudocadoceras, and Kepplerites (Imlay, 1953b, 1961, 273-278), and C. (Stenocadoceras) is unknown below
1964a; Crickmay, 1930, 1933a, b; McLearn, 1929, 1949; the uppermost part of the lower Callovian (Arkell, 1956,
Frebold and Tipper, 1967). Of these, only Iniskinites, p. 26).
OXFORDIAN blage probably corresponds to the basal Oxfordian (zone

of Quenstedtoceras mariae) of northwest Europe.
In the subsurface of the southern United States, a The next oldest ammonites of the marine lower Ox
few fragmentary ammonites of late Oxfordian Age have fordian have been found in north-central Montana di
been found in the Smackover Formation (fig. 15). They rectly above the beds containing an association of Car
include species of Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes), dioceras and Quenstedtoceras (Pavloviceras). They also
P. (Discosphinctes), Euaspidoceras, and Ochetoceras occur at many other places in the western interior re
(Imlay, 1945, p. 274, pi. 41, figs. 7-14), which appear to gion. These ammonites apparently represent a single
be identical with species from beds of late Oxfordian Age faunal zone (Cardioceras cordifomne), although by Eu
in Mexico (Burckhardt, 1912, p. 1^0, 203-312, pis. 1- ropean standards they probably correspond to the zones
7; Cantii Chapa, 1969, p. 6; 1971, p. 22, 37) and Cuba of Cardioceras cordatum and Perisphinctes plicatilis.
(Sanchez Roig, 1920, 1951; O'Connell, 1920; Jaworski, They are closely related specifically to ammonites in
1940; Judoley and Furrazola-Bermiidez, 1965, 1968, p. 5, British Columbia, Alaska, and the arctic region, but have
18, 22). The late middle Oxfordian is probably repre nothing in common generically with Oxfordian ammo
sented at San Pedro del Gallo, Mexico, by the lower part nites in the Gulf of Mexico region.
of the Oxfordian sequence, which is below an upper part In Alaska, both the early and the late Oxfordian are
characterized by Ochetoceras canaliculatum (von Buch) represented mostly by genera of the Cardioceratidae.
and Discosphinctes carribbeanus (Jaworski). In the Cardioceras is the most common genus in the lower Ox
lower part, Dichotomosphinctes occurs in association fordian, as is Amoeboceras in the upper Oxfordian. In
with Taramelliceras (Proscaphites) (Burckhardt, 1912, the basal part of the Cardioceras-bearing beds, the
p. 211, 212; Arkell, 1956, p. 563) and Creniceras cf. C. subgenus Scarburgiceras is locally common. Peris
crenatum (Bruguiere) (Burckhardt, 1912, p. 15, 16, pi. 7, phinctes (Dichotomosphinctes) is associated with Buchia
figs. 15-17). Amoeboceras cf. A. alternans (von Buch) concentrica (Sowerby), of late Oxfordian to early Kim-
is reported by Burckhardt (1930, p. 66) from probable meridgian Age on the Alaska Peninsula (Imlay, 1961, p.
equivalent beds at another locality near San Pedro del Dll,. pi. 4, fig. 6). The presence of Phylloceras and Ly-
Gallo. Early Oxfordian ammonites have not been found toceras in fair abundance contrasts with their complete
in the Gulf of Mexico region, except for unconfirmed re absence in Oxfordian beds in the western interior of the
ports of Creniceras renggeri (Oppel) at Huayacocotla in United States.
Veracruz, Mexico (Erben, 1957a, p. 47), and Fehlman- The Oxfordian ammonite sequences in western and
nites at Xochapulco in Puebla, Mexico (Cantii Chapa, arctic Canada are nearly the same as those in Alaska
1971, p. 23). Most of these ammonites in the Gulf region (Frebold, 1961, p. 22-24, 29, 30, table 1 opposite p. 26;
have Tethyan affinities. 1964a, p. 4; Frebold and Tipper, 1970, p. 13, 14, 17; Fre
In California and southwestern Oregon, as in the bold and others, 1959). Likewise, few ammonite taxa are
southern United States, the late Oxfordian is repre present, and an exact faunal boundary between Oxford
sented by species of Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes} ian and Kimmeridgian cannot be drawn.
and P. (Discosphinctes) that are similar to species in
Mexico and Cuba (Imlay, 1961, p. D7-D8, D10, D23- KIMMERIDGIAN
D25, pi. 3, figs. 1-10, pi. 4, figs. 4, 7, 8). In west-central
Idaho, the early Oxfordian is represented by Cardi- The Kimmeridgian Stage as used herein follows the
oceras (Scarburgiceras) martini Reeside (Imlay, 1964a, recommendation of Enay and others (1971, p. 97). It is
p. D15, pi. 2, figs. 1-5), which has Boreal affinities. equivalent to the lower Kimmeridgian of Arkell (1956, p.
In the western interior of the United States, cardi- 21, 22) and to the lower part of the Kimmeridge Clay of
oceratid ammonites of early to early middle Oxfordian England below the ammonite zone of Pectinatites (Yir-
Age are fairly widespread, but ammonites of late Oxford gatosphinctoides) elegans (Cope, 1967, p. 66).
ian Age have not been found (Reeside, 1919; Imlay, 1947, In eastern Mexico, the Kimmeridgian ammonite se
p. 264; 1948, p. 16, 17, 25, pi. 7, figs. 12, 14, 15, 18; quence from the base up, according to Cantii Chapa
Arkell, 1956, p. 548). The presence of upper Oxfordian (1971, p. 25, 26, 36), is characterized by (1) Ataxioceras
beds in northwestern Montana is shown, however, by associated with Rasenia, (2) Idoceras, and (3) the Glo-
the presence of Buchia concentrica (Sowerby) (Imlay, chiceras group of G. fialar. In northern Mexico, the se
1956a, p. 595). The oldest Oxfordian ammonites have quence recognized by Burckhardt (1930, p. 64, 66, 91, 92)
been collected only in the lower part of the Swift For is nearly the same, except for the presence of Sutneria
mation in north-central Montana, and belong to Quen- cf. S. platynota (Reinecke) at the base. Also, in the lower
stedtoceras (Pavloviceras), Prososphinctes, Cardioceras part of the bed containing Glochiceras cf. G. fialar are
(Maltoniceras), and C. (Scarburgiceras). This assem species of "Aucella" (Burckhardt, 1906, p. 144, 155;
1912, p. 50, 67, 80) that are now referred to as Buchia ceras in Sonora is considerably younger than its reported
concentrica (Sowerby) and B. mosquensis (von Buch) occurrence with Dichotomosphinctes durangensis
(Imlay, 1955, p. 85). Burckhardt near San Pedro del Gallo, Durango (Burck
This faunal sequence was modified slightly by Imlay hardt, 1930, p. 66).
(1939, p. 21, tables 4, 5; 1943a, p. 1471) because of an Marine Kimmeridgian beds have not been identified
apparent association of the Idoceras group of /. duran- in the western interior of the United States or east of the
gense Burckhardt with Glochiceras cf. G. fialar at some Canadian Rocky Mountains. Throughout western and
localities. Still later, studies by Cantii Chapa (1970, p. arctic Canada and Alaska, the identification of beds of
42; 1971, p. 26), dealing with both subsurface cores and Kimmeridgian Age is based mostly on the ranges of spe
outcrops, showed that Idoceras invariably occurs in a cies of Buchia (Imlay, 1955, p. 83-86), because ammon
lower bed than does Glochiceras cf. G. fialar. ites of definite Kimmeridgian Age have not been found.
A few ammonites of Kimmeridgian Age have been Some of the specimens of Amoeboceras from Alaska
found in the southern United States (figure 15) in the (Reeside, 1919, p. 30, pi. 18, fig. 4, pi. 19, figs. 1-3;
subsurface of northwestern Louisiana (Imlay, 1945, p. Imlay, 1955, p. 90, pi. 12, figs. 2-£) could be of early
271-274, pi. 41, figs. 15-28) and east Texas and in out Kimmeridgian Age, but their resemblance to the
crops in west Texas (Cragin, 1905; Albritton, 1937; 1938, subgenus Prionodoceras favors a late Oxfordian Age,
p. 1761-1764). Well cores in Louisiana have yielded spe judging by the range of that subgenus in northwest Eu
cies of Idoceras, Ataxioceras, Metahaploceras, and Glo rope (Arkell and others, 1957, p. L307).
chiceras that appear to be identical with species from
beds of early and middle Kimmeridgian Age in Mexico
TITHONIAN
(Imlay, 1943a, p. 1471-1472); Burckhardt, 1906, p. 2-
106). From the Malone Mountains in west Texas, early
Kimmeridgian ammonites have been obtained that be DEFINITION AND CORRELATIONS
long to the genera Haploceras, Idoceras, Nebrodites,
Physodoceras, and Aspidoceras. Some of these are iden The Tithonian Stage is now defined (Enay, 1964,
tical specifically with ammonites from beds of Kimmer 1971) so that it correlates at its base with the Volgian
idgian Age in northern Mexico. The ammonite species Stage of the Boreal Realm (Saks and Shulgina, 1964;
and genera of Kimmeridgian Age that have been found Saks and others, 1968 and 1972; Gerasimov and Mikhai-
in the southern United States are only a small part of the lov, 1967) (equals North Temperate Realm of Kauffman,
assemblages of Kimmeridgian Age that are known in 1973, p. 367). This correlation is based primarily on the
Mexico (see Burckhardt, 1930, p. 66-68; Imlay, 1939, local association in Europe of the subboreal ammonite
tables 4-6, 10). Gravesia with the Tethyan ammonite Hybonoticeras,
In California, the lower to middle Kimmeridgian has which is widespread in southern Europe, Madagascar,
been identified faunally. This identification in California India, and Mexico (Enay, 1972, p. 370; Zeiss, 1968, p.
is based on an abundance of the pelecypod Buchia con 137, 143-146).
centrica (Sowerby) in association with the boreal am The Tithonian is commonly divided into three parts,
monite Amoeboceras (Amoebites) and the nonboreal am on the basis of the stratigraphic ranges and associations
monites Subdichotomocerasl and Idoceras (Imlay, 1961, of certain ammonites (fig. 16). As thus divided, the lower
p. D8, D22, D25, D26; pi. 2, figs. 24-28; pi. 5, figs. 1-3, Tithonian is equivalent to the middle and part of the up
9, 12-16). per Kimmeridgian of England as defined by Arkell (1956,
In northwest Sonora, on Rancho Cerro Pozo Serna, p. 21) and to most of the upper Kimmeridgian as rede
the Kimmeridgian is represented by an association of fined by Cope (1967, p. 4, 70, 74). The middle Tithonian
Idoceras, Amoeboceras, and Aulacomyella (T. E. Stump, as defined by Enay in 1964 (p. 365) is equivalent to the
Univ. Calif, at Davis, written commun., Apr. 1973). Of remainder of the Kimmeridgian of England plus an in
these ammonites, Idoceras ranges through about 565 definite part of the Portlandian. The middle Tithonian as
feet of beds; Amoeboceras occurs in the lower 510 feet of defined by Zeiss (1968, p. 137) includes only the zones of
that range; and Aulacomyella is associated with the Pavlovia rotunda and P. pallasioides of northwest Eu
highest occurrence of Amoeboceras. Aulacomyella oc rope. As redefined by Enay (1971, p. 99, 100), it includes
curs elsewhere in Mexico in beds characterized by Ido those zones plus part of the underlying zone of Pectina-
ceras and Glochiceras cf. G. fialar (Burckhardt, 1930, p. tites pectinatus; it does not include any faunal zone as
51, 67, 86, 90, 92, 96, 97; Imlay, 1940a, p. 399; 1943a, p. young as the Portlandian. The middle Tithonian as used
1472) but ranges higher into beds containing the lowest by Judoley and Furrazola-Bermudez (1968, p. 5) and by
occurrences of Virgatosphinctes (Cantii Chapa, 1971, p. Imlay and Jones (1970, p. B8-B9) is nearly the same as
27, 28, 36). The occurrence of Amoeboceras with Ido that used by Enay in 1964. The upper Tithonian of these
various authors includes all Jurassic beds above the mid northern Mexico. At first, Burckhardt (1906, p. 168-
dle Tithonian. 170) considered them to be of the same age because they
The Tithonian has also been divided into two parts both occur in similar phosphatic limestone in areas near
by Enay (1964, p. 363, 364; 1971, p. 99, 100) who consid Mazapil. Later, he decided that Mazapilites must be
ers a threefold division impractical except in those areas older because near Symon, Durango, about 70 miles (112
where Pseudolissoceras and Semiformiceras are present km) west of Mazapil, the lowest occurrence of Mazapi
(Enay, 1972, p. 371). Also, the association of Pseudolis lites is in the same bed with Hybonoticeras (Burckhardt,
soceras with the typical late Tithonian ammonite Proni- 1919, p. 74; 1930, p. 56). This association was confirmed
ceras in Kurdistan (Spath, 1950, p. 125) suggests that by Imlay (1939, p. 10, 11).
Pseudolissoceras may range higher than recorded in Eu The early Tithonian ammonite sequence near Sy
rope. Therefore, a twofold division is favored by Enay mon, Durango (Burckhardt, 1919, p. 61-66; 1930, p. 56,
(1971, p. 99; 1972, p. 382), who has correlated the lower 57, 68, 69; Imlay, 1939, p. 9-11), resembles that near
Tithonian with the upper part of the Kimmeridge Clay of Mazapil except that its upper part above Mazapilites
England above the zone of Aulacostephanoceras acutis- contains only rare specimens of Subplanitesl (Blanchet,
siodorensis (Cope, 1967, p. 4, 70). He correlated the up 1923, p. 74; Burckhardt, 1919, p. 39; 1921, pi. 14, figs. 1-
per Tithonian with the remainder of the overlying Jur 3) and Virgatosphinctes'i (Imlay, 1939, p. 10). Also, all
assic above the zone of Pavlovia pallasioides. As thus the beds above Hybonoticeras and below Kossmatia con
defined, the base of the upper Tithonian corresponds to tain an abundance of ammonites that generally have been
the first appearance of the calpionellid microfossils and assigned to Torquatisphinctes rather than to Aulacos
to the first appearance of such ammonites as Kossmatia, phinctoides (Spath, 1931, p. 466, 484, 1933, 865; Imlay,
Durangites, Corongoceras, Micracanthoceras, Lytoho- 1939, p. 22, table 7; Arkell, 1956, p. 562; Enay, 1972, p.
plites, and Hildoglochiceras. 382).
A threefold faunal division of the Tithonian within Mazapilites has been found elsewhere in north-cen
the Gulf region is feasible and useful, as discussed by tral Mexico only in the Sierra de 'Catorce, northern San
Cantii Chapa (1967, p. 18-22, table 1; 1971, p. 27-31), Luis Potosi, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Maza
but there is no assurance that the middle part is even pil. In this mountain, the early Tithonian is represented
approximately the same as the middle Tithonian as used only by one ammonite assemblage consisting of Phyllo-
in Eurasia. For correlations between the continents, ceras, Virgatosphinctes (rare), Aulacosphinctoides, Sub
preference is given herein to a twofold division of the dichotomoceras, Andiceras, Aspidoceras, Simoceras,
Tithonian because the faunal boundary between the two Haploceras, Pseudolissoceras zitteli (Burckhardt), and
divisions is much sharper than are the boundaries within Mazapilites (rare). Most of these occur in 10 feet (3 m) of
the threefold division. limestone (Verma and Westermann, 1973, p. 148) and do
not occur in the higher (early late Tithonian) assemblage
LOWER TITHONIAN OF THE GULF REGION characterized by Kossmatia and Durangites. Mazapi
lites itself was obtained from just 2 feet (0.6 m) of lime
In the Gulf of Mexico and bordering areas, early Ti stone at only one place, in association with Pseudolisso
thonian fossil sequences are well known only in northern, ceras zitteli, Aulacosphinctoides, Subdichotomoceras,
north-central, and eastern Mexico (fig. 15). In north-cen and (eVirgatosphinctes" sanchezi Verma and Wester
tral Mexico near Mazapil, Zacatecas, the early Tithonian mann (Verma and Westermann, 1973, loc. 23B on p. 141,
ammonite sequence from the base upwards apparently 148, 186). The last named species was described as sim
consists of (1) Hybonoticeras ( = Waagenia); (2) Maza- ilar to Subplanites'! sp. in Imlay (1939, p. 36, pi. 9, figs.
pilites in association with Virgatosphinctes aguilari 1-3). Burckhardt (1919, p. 39; 1921, p. 14, figs. 1-3)
(Burckhardt), V. spp., Subdichotomoceras cf. S. nikitini found it similar toVirgatites sp. ind., which was renamed
(Michalski), Aulacosphinctoides and Aspidoceras; and Perisphinctes burckhardti by Blanchet (1923, p. 74) and
(3) Virgatosphinctes mexicanus Burckhardt, V. spp., referred questionably to as Subplanites by Arkell (1956,
Subplanites cf. S. danubiensis (Schlosser), Parastre- p. 562).
blites mazapilensis (Burckhardt) and Pseudolissoceras Another early Tithonian ammonite sequence occurs
subrasile Burckhardt (Burckhardt, 1906, p. 110, 147- near Placer de Guadalupe and Plomosas in east-central
149; 1930, p. 68-71, tables 6-9; Imlay, 1939, p. 27-30, Chihuahua, about 450 miles (700 km) north-northwest of
38, 39, tables 7-10). Of these, only the relative posi the one at Mazapil (Bridges, 1965, p. 66-77, 105, 118-
tions of Mazapilites and Virgatosphinctes mexicanus are 120, 132-134; Imlay, 1943b). The oldest Tithonian is rep
questionable, because those taxa have not yet been col resented by Hybonoticeras (= Waagenia) (Imlay,
lected in the same stratigraphic sequence in central or 1943b, p. 527-529), which was found about 15 miles (24
km) south-southeast of Placer de Guadalupe. The re Hybonoticeras at the base of Tithonian and by the pres
mainder of the early Tithonian ammonite sequence is ence of Mazapilites above instead of below Virgatos
well exposed in a fairly thick section (Bridges, 1965, fig. phinctes mexicanus (Burckhardt).
15 on p. 76, p. 133-134) that was measured northeast Of these differences, the rarity of Hybonoticeras is
ward, starting from a point about 1.2 miles (2 km) N. 42° probably related to sparse occurrences in very thin beds,
E. of Placer de Guadalupe. as suggested by Cantu Chapa (1971, p. 28). Hybonoti
In that section, some conglomerates that are proba ceras is present, however, at two localities in eastern
bly Paleozoic are overlain by shale 152 feet (46 m) thick Mexico. One specimen was obtained at the base of the
that contains Idoceras from 66-100 feet (20-30 m) above Corona-San Manuel well 82, about 30 miles (48 km)
its base, and Idoceras! throughout its lower 126 southwest of Tampico, Tamaulipas (USGS Mesozoic loc.
feet (38 m). Above this shale is about 160 feet (49 m) of 20854). Another was found in chalky limestone in Arroyo
unfossiliferous sandstone. Next higher is 1,075 feet (328 La Mula at the west end of the Huizachal anticline, west
m) of dark shale and shaly limestone that contains spe of Victoria, Tamaulipas (USGS Mesozoic loc. 20836).
cies of Virgatosphinctes, Subplanites, and Pseudolisso- The occurrence of Mazapilites above Virgatosphinctes
ceras, which are like those found with V. mexicanus in mexicanus in eastern Mexico but below it elsewhere
southern Zacatecas, in 3-6 feet (1-2 m) of limestone. could be explained if one or both of those taxa had longer
Above the dark shale and limestone is 565 feet (172 m) of or different stratigraphic ranges than those shown by
shale that contains Virgatosphinctes cf. V. densiplicatus studies in north-central Mexico, or if the Mazapilites-
(Waagen). At the top of the section is 465 feet (142 m) of bearing beds in eastern Mexico were separated from
shale and sandstone that contains Kossmatia. Mazapi- overlying Kossmatia-beanng beds by a disconformity, or
lites has not been found in the sequence, but the time by a nonsequence, reflecting lack of deposition.
during which it lived could be represented by any one of In summation, the biostratigraphic record, as dis
several 50- to 60-foot (15- to 18-m) units that have not cussed above, shows that Virgatosphinctes in northern
furnished any ammonites. and north-central Mexico ranges through the lower Ti
The lowest of these faunules is definitely of early Ti thonian above the beds containing Hybonoticeras. Lo
thonian Age, judging by an association of Subplanites, cally, in north-central Mexico near Mazapil, species of
Virgatosphinctes and questionable Pseudolissoceras Virgatosphinctes occur in two faunules, of which only the
(Arkell and others, 1957, p. 329, 330; Bridges, 1965, pi. lowest contains Mazapilites and only the highest con
3 on p. 76). It may be correlated with a faunule near Ma- tains Pseudolioceras. The higher faunule is represented
zapil that is characterized by Virgatosphinctes mexi elsewhere in northern Mexico near Symon, Durango,
canus Burckhardt, Pseudolissoceras subrasile (Burck- and in east-central Chihuahua by identical or closely sim
hardt), and Subplanites (Burckhardt, 1906, p. 155, 156; ilar species of Virgatosphinctes and Subplanites. Against
1930, p. 69). Thus, Subplanites aff. S. reise (Schneid) such a faunal division is the association of Mazapilites
(Imlay, 1943b, p. 533, pi. 91, fig. 1) from Chihuahua is with Pseudolissoceras in the Sierra de Catorce of San
probably identical with Perisphinctes cf P, danubiensis Luis Potosi. That association may not be of stratigraphic
(Schlosser) in Burckhardt (1906, p. 112, pi. 32, fig. 1) and value, however, if the 2 feet (0.6 m) of limestone in which
Virgatosphinctes chihuahuensis Imlay (Imlay, 1943b, p. the ammonites occur represents a condensed deposit that
534, pi. 91, figs. 2-5) is probably the same as Peris formed so slowly that organisms of different ages occur
phinctes aff. P. transitorius Oppel in Burckhardt (1906, together. Much better evidence against the faunal divi
p. 113, pi. 30, fig. 8). sion recorded for north-central Mexico is the presence of
Above this lowest faunule is a finely ribbed species Mazapilites above Virgatosphinctes mexicanus in east-
of Virgatosphinctes (Imlay, 1943b, p. 535, pi. 89, figs. central Mexico. Evidently, more stratigraphic collecting
1-4), whose resemblance to V. densiplicatus (Waagen) is needed in order to determine the total range of Maza
suggests correlation with the basal upper Tithonian pilites and the correct ammonite succession in the lower
(Enay, 1972, p. 377, 378). Still higher are species of Tithonian beds of Mexico. Nonetheless, the range of Ma
Kossmatia that represent the lower part of the upper zapilites into the middle part of the lower Tithonian is
Tithonian of Enay. favored by its association with Pseudolissoceras and
A much different early Tithonian ammonite sequence Protancyloceras in Cuba below beds containing Torqua-
is present in the Huasteca area of east-central Mexico, tisphinctes and Parapallasiceras (Housa and de La Nuez,
according to Cantu Chapa (1971, p. 24-30, 33, 36, 38), 1975).
whose conclusions are based on both surface and subsur Elsewhere in the Gulf region, lower Tithonian beds
face studies. That sequence is distinguished from all may be represented in Cuba by an association of Virga
those just discussed by the local absence or scarcity of tosphinctes and Subplanites! beneath beds containing
typical upper Tithonian ammonites such as Dumngites, p. 157; Imlay and Jones, 1970, p. Bll; Gerasimov and
Corongoceras, and Micracanthoceras (Judoley and Fur- Mikhailov, 1967, p. 9, 19, 20; Saks and others, 1963,
razola-Bermiidez, 1968, p. 5, 19, 23, 109-111). The table 5).
lower Tithonian assignment is based on two facts: Vir- Both of these assemblages are associated with calpi
gatosphinctes is unknown from beds older than the Ti onellid microfossils of late Tithonian Age. Such microfos
thonian (Arkell and others, 1957, p. L330), and Subplan- sils occur with the higher assemblage characterized by
ites is characteristic of the entire lower Tithonian (Enay, Substeueroceras in Puebla, Mexico (Cantii Chapa, 1967,
1964, p. 365; 1971, p. 99, 100; 1972, p. 382). One trouble table 1 opposite p. 22) and also throughout the lower
with this correlation is that the species of Subplanitesl assemblage in Cuba (Bronnimann, 1954; Bermiidez, 1961;
and Virgatosphinctes in question are reported by Judo- Judoley and Furrazola-Bermudez, 1968, p. 14-19). In
ley and Furrazola-Bermiidez (1968, p. 19) to be associ Mexico, they are reported from La Casita and Pimienta
ated with Tintinids as well as with the ammonite Paro- Formations (Bonet, 1956, p. 417^19, 462, 463, 468, ta
dontoceras butti Imlay, which are not known below the ble opposite p. 398), and they occur also in the Sierra
upper Tithonian. Cruillas, Tamaulipas (Bonet, 1956, localities 44, 45, and
48 on p. 468), just below a sequence containing Koss
matia and Durangites.
UPPER TITHONIAN OF THE GULF REGION
KOSSMATIA-DURANGITES AMMONITE ASSEMBLAGE
AMMONITE SEQUENCES The lowermost upper Tithonian ammonite assem

blage in Cuba is dated confidently as Late Jurassic, but
Upper Tithonian ammonite sequences are well known not the very latest, for reasons that have been discussed
in lands bordering the Gulf of Mexico (Burckhardt, 1906, in detail elsewhere (Imlay, 1942, p. 1433, 1434; Arkell,
p. 125-141, 148, 149, 170, 171; 1912, p. 127-172, 220- 1956, p. 572; Judoley and Furrazola-Bermudez, 1968, p.
226; 1930, p. 70, 71, tables 6, 8, 9; Imlay, 1939, p. 23, 24, 24, 25). It is rather peculiar, however, that Protancylo-
tables 8-10; 1942; Cantii Chapa, 1963, p. 27-29, 33, ceras, with is common in the assemblage in Cuba, is un
37-41, 70; 1967; 1968; 1971, p. 28-31, 37-39). They known in Mexico below the uppermost upper Tithonian.
are divisible into two assemblages, of which the lower is It is also peculiar that Protancyloceras has not been
characterized by Kossmatia, Durangites, Lytohoplites, found in Cuba in association with Durangites (Imlay,
Simoceras, Metahaploceras, Dickersonia, and Pseudo- 1942, p. 1428), an ammonite characteristic of the lower
lissoceras. The upper assemblage is characterized by most upper Tithonian in Mexico. These peculiarities are
Berriasella, Substeueroceras, Aulacosphinctes, Prota- probably unimportant stratigraphically because Protan
canthodiscus, Proniceras, and rarely Himalayites. With cyloceras hondense Imlay (written commun. to Paul
both assemblages occur Parodontoceras, Hildoglochi- Bronniman, March 1953) occurs on Loma Sabinilla, Las
ceras, Micracanthoceras, and Corongoceras. Virgatos Villas Province (Gulf Oil Co. Iocs. 21141 and 21142), at
phinctes occurs rarely in the lower assemblage in Cuba about the same place where Durangites was collected
and in the upper assemblage in Mexico. (Atlantic Refinery Co. Iocs. 268, 269, and 7539), and be
The ages of these ammonite assemblages have been low the lowermost occurrences of calpionellas (Paul
discussed sufficiently elsewhere (Cantii Chapa, 1967, p. Bronniman, written commun., 1953). Also, Protancylo
17-22; 1971, p. 30, 31; Imlay and Jones, 1970, p. Bll- ceras has been recorded in central Europe and in Kurdis
B12; Enay, 1972, p. 361, 371, 376, 382). Substeueroceras tan in beds that are slightly older than latest Tithonian
and Proniceras must represent the latest Tithonian. (Wiedmann, 1973, p. 309, 310, 313, 314).
Kossmatia and Durangites must represent slightly older Durangites vulgaris Burckhardt in Cuba, in addition
Tithonian, but their exact ranges relative to the standard to the occurrences in Camagiiey and Las Villas Provinces
zones of Europe are difficult to determine. Nonetheless, previously listed (Imlay, 1942, p. 1428, 1453), occurs at
the presence of calpionellid microfossils in the Kossma- Finca Ancon, 3 miles (5 km) west of Balneario San Vi-
&a-bearing beds indicates an age not older than late Ti cente ih Pinar del Rio Province (Gulf Oil Co. loc. 24976).
thonian as defined by Enay (1971, p. 99). Also, the pres It is associated there with D. cf. D. incertus Burckhardt,
ence of Buchia mosquensis (von Buch) locally in those Hildoglochicerast ecarinatum Imlay, and an ammonite
beds at San Pedro del Gallo, Durango (Burckhardt, 1912, fragment whose venter bears chevron-shaped ribs, as
p. 206, 221) shows that some of those beds are at least would Kossmatia or Proniceras. That species ofHildog-
as old as the Zaraiskites albani zone of northwest Eu lochicerasl or Glochiceras (Cantii Chapa, 1968, p. 20)
rope and the equivalent upper part of the Dorsoplanites occurs elsewhere in association with Durangites (Imlay,
panderi zone in Russia (Imlay, 1955, p. 74, 75, 85; 1959b, 1939, p. 5, 28).
The earliest late Tithonian assemblage, present in Corongoceras cf. C. alternans Gerth (written com
the subsurface of eastern Mexico and in the mountains mun. to Federico Bonet, 1959).
and plateau to the west, contains many species in com 3. Pseudolissoceras zitteli (fturckhardt) in associ
mon with Cuba (Imlay, 1942, p. 1428, 1432). This is well ation with Kossmatia victoris (Burckhardt) and
illustrated by the ammonites present in the upper 394 Grayicerasl mexicanum (Burckhardt), Mazatepec
feet (120 m) of a 722-foot-thick (220-m) Jurassic sequence area, Puebla (Cantii Chapa, 1967, p. 4, 5, 21; 1971,
exposed on the Sierra Cruillas, southwest of Cruillas, in p. 30).
north-central Tamaulipas. That fossiliferous part of the 4. Proniceras sp. associated with Durangites, Par
sequence from top to bottom is as follows: odontoceras and Micracanthoceras. Petroleos
Mexicanos lot AC-1933 from Bolson de Judas in
Partial Jurassic sequence on Loma Rinconada in the northeast
ern part of Sierra Cruillas, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Candela district near boundary of Coahuila and
Nuevo Leon (written commun. to Teodoro Diaz-
[Measured and collected in June 1954 by William E. Humphrey, Paul
Perez F., and Teodoro Oiaz G. Fossils identified by Ralph W. Imlay] Gonzalez, 1953).
Measured interval Feet The mentioned association of Proniceras with Dur
Meters
12. Limestone, thin-bedded, tabular, laminated angites, as well as a similar association reported by
dark-gray to black; lenses of black chert;
intercalated gray shale. Contains
Cantii Chapa (1968, p. 23-25) from Galeana in southern
Micracanthoceras acanthellum Imlay—————
43 13.0 Nuevo Leon, could mean either that Durangites ranges
11. Limestone, thin-bedded, laminated;
intercalated gray shale. Contains up into the uppermost Tithonian or that Proniceras oc
Corongoceras filicostatum, Metahaploceras?
ana inoceramus————————————————— 18 5.5
curs lower than previously recorded.
10. Mostly covered. Some tuffaceous limestone. The earliest late Tithonian ammonite assemblage of
Contains Kossmatia victoris Burckhardt.
Probable float also contains Corongoceras
28 8.5 north-central Mexico is dominated by species of Koss
9. Limestone, black, laminated, thin-bedded;
lenses of black chert. Contains Kossmatia
matia and Durangites (Burckhardt, 1930, p. 70, 71) but
victoris (Burckhardt). Float contains also includes Micracanthoceras, Hildoglochiceras
Lytohoplites caribbeanus Iml ay ar\d
Corongoceras filicostatum Imlay———————39 12.0 ( = Salinites Cantu Chapa, 1968, p. 20), Grayicerasl,
8. Tuff, sandy, thin-bedded, platy, laminated.
Contains perisphinctid ammonites——————18 5.5
Aulacosphinctesl', and Micracanthoceras (Imlay, 1939,
7. Tuff, sandy, medium-bedded, siliceous————
33 10.0 p. 22, table 8). This lower faunule near Placer de Guad-
6. Limestone, dark-gray, thin-bedded, laminated,
siliceous; limestone concretions and chert
alupe in east-central Chihuahua is represented mainly by
bands. Contains Physodoceras and species of Kossmatia near the top of the Jurassic se
Metahaploceras?. Float, probably from
same unit, contains Durangites, quence. Of the species present, K. kingi Imlay is proba
5.
Parodontoceras?. and Simoceras?———————
Mostly covered——————————————————
20
26
6.0
8.0 bly identical with Perisphinctes sp. ind. in Burckhardt
4. Limestone, siliceous, thin-bedded, shaly, (1906, p. 130, pi. 37, figs. 9, 11, 12), and K. varicostata
flaggy; gray limestone concretion.
Contains Corongoceras?————————————— 23 7.0 Imlay is closely similar to K. victoris Burckhardt (Burck
3.
2.
Tuffs and black siliceous limestone——————
Mostly covered——————————————————
59
43
18.0
13.0 hardt, 1906, p. 131, pi. 26, figs. 1-6, pi. 27, fig. 1).
1. Limestone, gray to black, siliceous, banded, An associated species, Kossmatia rancheriasensis
laminated, medium- to thin-bedded; some
tuffaceous shale. Contains Imlay, has been found elsewhere, in the Malone Moun
Micracanthoceras acanthe11urn Iml ay and
Simoceras (Virgatosimoceras.) Float
tains of Texas. R. T. Hazzard collected the species about
contains Corongoceras filicostatum 25 feet (7.6 m) below a conglomerate at the base of the
———————————— 44 13.5
Lower Cretaceous(?) Torcer Formation, approximately
three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km) northwest of a cafe at a
bend on U.S. Highway 80, 10 miles (16 km) west of
Other Mexican ammonites of the earliest late Tithon Sierra Blanca, Tex. (USGS Mesozoic loc. 26956). An
ian assemblage that are similar to species in Cuba, or other fragment of Kossmatia found in the conglomerate
that are of stratigraphic significance, include the follow (Albritton, 1937, pi. 4, fig. 1) was probably derived from
ing: the underlying Malone Formation.
1. Parodontoceras cf. P. butti Imlay. Petroleos SUBSTEUEROCERAS-PRONICERAS AMMONITE ASSEMBLAGE
Mexicanos lot 20851 from the Pimienta Formation
3 km south of Jonotla on trail to Zacapoaxtla, The latest late Tithonian ammonite assemblage in
Puebla (written commun. to M. R. Aguilar, 1948). the Gulf region, characterized by Substeueroceras and
2. Dickersonia cf. D. sabanillensis Imlay. Chocoy Proniceras, is not known in Cuba. It is represented in
well 2 at depth of 3,195 feet (974 m), about 28 the subsurface of the southeastern United States only by
miles (45 km) northwest of Tampico, Tamaulipas. one occurrence of Substeueroceras at the depth of 17,403
Associated ammonites include Parodontoceras and feet (5,304 m) in the Humble Benavides well 1 in Webb
County, Tex. It is widespread in eastern and north-cen 1. Protancyloceras cf. P. hondense Imlay. Tantima
tral Mexico in both the surface and subsurface, and is not well 2 at depths of 8,036 to 8,045 feet (2,449 to
represented in Chihuahua or in west Texas. 2,452 m), near Tantima, Veracruz. Associated with
In southeastern Mexico (Huasteca area), two faunal Substeueroceras and Parodontoceras (written
units, or zones in the uppermost upper Tithonian are rec commun. to M. R. Aguilar, 1953).
ognized by Cantii Chapa (1967, p. 22, table 1). Of these, 2. Protancyloceras cf. P. catalinense Imlay. Piedra
the higher faunal unit is characterized by Parodonto- de Cal well No. 8 at depths of 5,837 to 5,850 feet
ceras cf. P. callistoides (Behrendsen) in association with (1,779 to 1,783 m), about 60 miles (100 km) south
Proniceras and Protacanthodiscus. The lower faunal west of Tampico, near Tantoyuca, Veracruz. As
unit is characterized by Suarites bituberculatum Cantii sociated with Substeueroceras (written commun.
Chapa in association with the genera Acevedites, Wich- to Federico Bonet, 1959).
manniceras, and Corongoceras (Cantii Chapa, 1967, p. 3. Protancyloceras anahuacense Cantii Chapa
12-14, 18-20) and occurs below the lowest known occur (1963, p. 28, 73, pi. 1, figs. 2-4) from the Anahuac
rences of calpionellid microfossils. well 1 at depths of 8,200-8,213 feet (2,499.3-
Probably the most complete latest Jurassic ammon 2,503.3 m), near Anahuac in northern Nuevo Leon
ite sequence found in the subsurface in Mexico occurs at (Perez Fernandez and Diaz Gonzales, 1964, p. 232).
depths of 10,505 to 10,761 feet (3,202 to 3,280 m) in the Associated with Proniceras, Substeueroceras^ and
San Javier well 1, Nuevo Leon (see location in Perez Fer- Protacanthodiscus.
nandez and Diaz-Gonzales, 1964, p. 232); it is described 4. Protancyloceras barrancense Cantii Chapa
as follows: (Cantii Chapa, 1963, p. 27, 73, pi. 1, fig. 5) from
the Barranca 1 well at depths of 8,755 to 8,768
Latest Jurassic ammonite sequence in the San Javier No. 1 feet (2,668.5 to 2,672.5 m), Panuco-Ebano area,
well, about 90 miles (145 km) south of Laredo and 70
miles (110 km) west of Reynosa in Nuevo Leon, Mexico Veracruz.
[Core and depth data furnished by Teodoro Diaz G., of Petroleos
5. Protancyloceras alamense Cantii Chapa (Cantii
Mexicanos. Fossils identified by R. W. Imlay (written commun. to Chapa, 1963, p. 28) for Aegocrioceras sp., in Imlay
DiazG., 1957)] (1939, p. 5, 57, pi. 11, figs. 1, 2) from Canon Al
Core No. Feet
Depth
Meters Fossil
amo, Sierra Jimulco, Coahuila. Associated with
Proniceras, Aulacosphinctes, Hildoglochiceras,
47———. 10,505
47———- 10,518
3,202
3,206
Himalayites?.
Proniceras, Parodontoceras Micracanthoceras, Parodontoceras, and Sub
48———- 10,728 3,270 Substeueroceras? and
Pseudolissoceras?.
steueroceras.
48———- 10,732 3,271 Virgatosphinctes?. 6. Protancyloceras ramirense Cantii Chapa (Cantii
48———- 10,735
48———- 10,738
3,272
3,273
Perisphinctid ammonite.
Substeueroceras. Chapa, 1963, p. 28) for Crioceras sp. incl. in
48———- 10,741 3,274 Substeueroceras. Burckhardt (1919, p. 58, 69; 1921, pi. 21, fig. 3)
48———- 10,748 3,276 Substeueroceras?.
48———- 10,751 3,277 Perisphinctid ammonite. from near the Jurassic-Cretaceous contact in the
48———- 10,755
48———- 10,758
3,278
3,279
Himalayites.
Virgatosphinctes?. Sierra Ramirez, near Symon, Durango. Associ
48———-
49————.
10,761
11,065
3,280
3,272.5
Substeueroceras.
Perisphinctid ammonite.
ated with Parodontoceras (Burckhardt, 1921, pi.
50 to 52- 11,065- 3,372.5- Exogyra cf . E. virgula 20, figs. 1-3) and Substeueroceras.
11,216 3,418.5 (Def ranee).
TITHONIAN OF CALIFORNIA AND OREGON
In this well, the contact with the Cretaceous is not In western California and southwestern Oregon, the
indicated by megafossils, but cores from depths of upper Tithonian contains a sequence of ammonites simi
10,028 to 10,064 feet (3,056.5 to 3,067.5 m) contain the lar to those present in the Gulf region (Imlay and Jones,
ammonites Olcostephanus, Bochianites, Thurmanni- 1970, p. B6-B12). These are associated with species of
ceras, Sarasinella, and Kilianella of Valanginian to Buchia that permit correlations with faunas to the north
early Hauterivian Age. in Canada and Alaska. As Buchia mosquensis (von Buch)
Occurrences of most of the latest Jurassic ammonite had not been found in California or Oregon, it is assumed
genera in Mexico are well documented. Occurrences of that the base of the Kossmatia-bearing beds in those
the uncoiled ammonite, Protancyloceras, are listed be States is not as old as the base of the Kossmatia-bearmg
low, however, because the presence of the genus in Mex beds in Mexico (Imlay and Jones, 1970, p. Bll).
ico was not recognized until recent years, and because
TITHONIAN OF CANADA AND ALASKA
some species are similar to or identical with species in
Cuba (Imlay, 1942, p. 1456, 1457, pi. 10, fig. 1 to 9, 11, Tithonian beds are widespread in western and arctic
12). Canada and in southern and northern Alaska, judging
INTERCONTINENTAL FAUNAL RELATIONSHIPS 37
from occurrences of certain species of Buchia that fur could be represented by the lowermost occurrence of
nish correlations with those in Greenland and northern Cranocephalites. By contrast, in the Pacific Coast re
Eurasia (Jeletzky, 1965, p. 57; Imlay, 1965, p. 1034; Im- gion, the ammonite successions of late Bajocian Age are
lay and Jones, 1970, p. B8, 9, 19; Frebold and Tipper, definitely represented by such widespread genera as
1970, p. 17). Associated ammonites are rare and are gen Spiroceras, Leptosphinctes, and Sphaeroceras. These
erally poorly preserved (Frebold, 1957, p. 35, 66, pis. successions differ from those in most parts of the world
42^4; Frebold, 1961, p. 23, pi. 17, fig. 2; Jeletzky, 1966, outside of the arctic region by the presence of Mega-
p. 3-23, pis. 1-5, 8 in part; Frebold and Tipper, 1970, sphaeroceras, Eocephalites, Parachondroceras, Soh-
p. 14-16), in contrast with the situation in East Green lites, Lupherites, and Parastrenoceras and by lacking all
land. genera of the Parkinsonidae. Of these ammonites, Mega-
sphaeroceras and Eocephalites are reported elsewhere
only in Chile and western Argentina, where they are as
INTERCONTINENTAL FAUNAL sociated with Spiroceras, Normannites, Teloceras, and
RELATIONSHIPS Cadormtes but are not associated with the Parkinsonid
genera (Hillebrandt, 1970, p. 176, 201).
The known Jurassic ammonite successions in North It appears, therefore, that the middle and late Bajo
America from Hettangian through early Oxfordian time cian ammonite faunas along the Pacific Coast of North
were in seas that were either extensions of the Pacific and South America evolved in a similar manner. Both
Ocean or of the Arctic Ocean. Nevertheless, the North can be correlated fairly closely with sequences in Europe
American ammonite successions during Early Jurassic and in the Mediterranean region, but both include genera
time were essentially the same as those in Europe and that appear to be restricted to areas bordering the Pa
elsewhere in the world. The same statement applies to cific Ocean. Apparently, this development was entirely
the early Bajocian, except for an apparent absence of any different from that in the arctic region of North America
taxa typical of the Leioceras opalinum zone in the Pacific during the same time interval.
Coast region (Arkell, 1956, p. 607, 608; Imlay, 1965, p. Bathonian ammonites belonging to genera character
1029-1031; Frebold, 1964a, p. 5; Frebold and Tipper, istic of the Mediterranean (Tethyan) region and north
1970, p. 9,17). After early Oxfordian time, the ammonite west Europe are present in the Pacific Coast region of
successions in the Gulf of Mexico region were in waters southern Mexico and may occur in east-central Mexico.
connected with both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Elsewhere in North America, Bathonian ammonites have
After early Bajocian time, the ammonite successions been found in the arctic region, southern Alaska, north
along the Pacific Coast of North America became differ ern British Columbia, eastern Oregon, westernmost
entiated from north to south because of fairly complete Idaho, and in the western interior region. The succession
separation of the Arctic Ocean from the Pacific Ocean in southern Alaska and in the arctic region of Alaska and
and the Mediterranean. Similar differentiation took place Canada consists, from bottom to top, mainly of the gen
in Europe and presumably elsewhere. era Cranocephalites, Arctocephalites, and Arcticoceras.
During the middle to late Bajocian, the ammonite The succession in the western interior consists of Para-
successions in western and northern North America be cephalites, which is similar to Arctocephalites, overlain
came different from those in Europe and the Tethyan re by Warrenoceras, which is similar to Arcticoceras. Cob-
gion. For example, in the Arctic region, the sole known banites, a genus similar to Vermisphinctes of late Bajo
representative of middle Bajocian Age consists of Arkel- cian Age, is associated with Cranocephalites in southern
loceras, and there are no ammonites of definite late Ba Alaska and with Paracephalites and Warrenoceras in the
jocian Age. In the Pacific Coast region, the ammonite western interior of the United States and Canada. In
successions of middle Bajocian Age contain some genera eastern Oregon, Cobbanites is associated with a species
and species identical with taxa in Europe and the Teth of Parareineckeia that is similar to a species of Pararei-
yan region, but they differ in that they contain Alasko- neckeia that occurs with Cranocephalites in southern
ceras, Pseudotoites, Parabigotites, Zemistephanus, and Alaska. Both Warrenoceras in the western interior and
Arkelloceras (Westermann, 1964, 1969; Imlay, 1973, p. Arcticoceras in southern Alaska are succeeded by spe
1, 35, 36; Frebold and Tipper, 1970, p. 17). Of these, cies of Kepplerites similar to species in Greenland pres
Pseudotoites is known elsewhere in Argentina, Chile, ent below beds identified as earlier Callovian. These
and western Australia (Westermann, 1967, p. 67, 68; Bathonian ammonite successions, as far as is known,
1969, p. 27, 28, 129, 130, 157; Arkell, 1954, p. 592; Hil- originated in the Arctic Ocean, had marine connections
lebrandt, 1970, p. 176, 187, 199). southward only through Yukon Territory and British Co
Ammonites of late Bajocian Age in the arctic region lumbia into the western interior region, and were unlike
of North America have not been definitely identified but any other Bathonian succession outside the arctic region.
The Callovian ammonite succession in southern Mex boreal origin, but in central Mexico they do contain the
ico resembles that in Europe by containing Peltoceras, boreal pelecypods Buchia concentrica (Sowerby) and B.
Erymnoceras, and Reineckeia and its subgenera. It also mosquensis (von Buch) in association with Idoceras and
resembles that in western South America by containing Glochiceras. In northwest Sonora, in California, and in
Xenocephalites, Eurycephalites, and probably Neuquen- western Oregon, the Kimmeridgian sequences contain
iceras. Similarly, the Callovian succession in southern ammonites of Mediterranean or nonboreal origin, such as
and east-central California bears some resemblance to Subdichotomoceras and Idoceras, associated with the
that in Europe, as shown by the presence of such genera Amoeboceras and A. (Amoebites) of boreal origin. Such
as Macrocephalites, Hecticoceras, and Peltoceras. The ammonites in California and western Oregon are also as
successions in east-central and northeastern California sociated with the boreal Buchia concentrica (Sowerby).
and in eastern Oregon are characterized, however, by From British Columbia northward to arctic Alaska and
such genera as Kepplerites, Xenocephalites, Pseudoca- Canada, the faunal sequences do not contain ammonites
doceras, and Lilloettia. They do contain species in com that are definitely Kimmeridgian, although some of the
mon with successions in British Columbia and Alaska but occurrences of Amoeboceras could be of that age. None
differ from those successions by lacking Cadoceras proper theless, the top of the Kimmeridgian can be placed ap
and its subgenera. In the western interior region, the proximately at the top of beds containing an association
earliest Callovian is represented by Kepplerites, Xeno of Buchia mosquensis (von Buch) with B. concentrica
cephalites, Lilloettia, and Grossouvria, and the latest (Sowerby) and B. rugosa (Fischer).
Callovian by a species of Quenstedtoceras similar to Q. The Tithonian ammonite sequences in the Gulf of
henrici R. Douville from the latest Callovian of Europe. Mexico region, in California, and in western Oregon in
In arctic Alaska and arctic Canada, the Callovian is clude mostly genera that are similar to those in the Med
rather poorly represented by species similar to those of iterranean (Tethyan) region and in South America, but
middle Callovian Age in southern Alaska. Overall, the they also include some ammonite genera that are found
Callovian ammonite sequences from British Columbia only, or mainly, in areas bordering the Pacific Ocean
northward are dominated by ammonites characteristic of south of Oregon (Imlay, 1965, p. 1024, 1032). With these
the arctic region, such as Kepplerites, Cadoceras, and in California and Oregon are associated species of Buchia
Pseudocadoceras, but include genera found only in the of boreal origin (Imlay and Jones, 1970, p. B5, B8). In
Pacific region, such as Xenocephalites, Lilloettia, and contrast, from British Columbia northward to the arctic
Parareineckeia. region of Canada, age determinations are based mainly
The Oxfordian ammonite sequences in the Gulf of on species of Buchia because ammonites are exceed
Mexico region, in California, and in western Oregon con ingly rare (Frebold and Tipper, 1970, p. 14-16; Frebold,
tain the same genera found in beds of late middle to late 1964a, p. 4; Jeletzky, 1965, 1966; Imlay and Detterman,
Oxfordian Age in the Mediterranean region and are char 1973, p. 21). This rarity contrasts markedly with the
acterized by Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes) and P. presence of a fair abundance of Tithonian ammonites in
(Discosphinctes). They do not contain any ammonites of East Greenland and in the arctic region of Eurasia. Evi
boreal origin, but in California and western Oregon they dently the environmental conditions permitting the exis
do contain Buchia concentrica (Sowerby) of such origin. tence or the preservation of ammonites in arctic Alaska
These sequences have not yielded any ammonites of and Canada became less and less favorable from Oxford
early to early middle Oxfordian Age, apparently because ian time to the end of the Jurassic.
of the deposition at that time of highly saline deposits or In summation, Jurassic ammonite successions in
red beds in the Gulf region and thick submarine volcanic North America were essentially the same as elsewhere
materials in California and western Oregon. in the world from the Hettangian until the early Bajo-
Elsewhere in North America, the Oxfordian ammon cian. Differentiation of ammonite faunas began in the
ite sequences are very similar to those in areas bordering middle Bajocian, continued through the remainder of the
the Arctic Ocean. The early to early middle Oxfordian is Jurassic, and was greatest during the Bathonian and Ti
characterized by Cardioceras in association with Quen thonian (Volgian). This differentiation was due to partial
stedtoceras (Pavloviceras) and Prososphinctes. The late to fairly complete isolation of the Arctic Ocean. That
middle to late Oxfordian is characterized by Amoebo- ocean opened southward to the Pacific Ocean through the
ceras in association with the pelecypod Buchia concen Yukon Territory after Early Jurassic time. It opened
trica (Sowerby). southward from the East Greenland area into western
Like the Oxfordian sequences, the Kimmeridgian Europe and the Mediterranean region in early Callovian
ammonite sequences in the Gulf of Mexico region com time and later. Also, from middle Bajocian time onward,
prise genera typical of the Mediterranean region and some new ammonite genera evolved in the Pacific Ocean.
southern Europe. They also do not contain ammonites of Some of these are known only, or mainly, from the Pa-
COMPARISONS OF LITHOLOGIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC FEATURES 39
cific Coast region of North and South America, or from from dense to oolitic to sandy (Hatten, 1967, p. 782). The
parts of that region; some extended to New Zealand and middle, or Jagua Vieja Member, ranges in thickness
beyond; a few spread into the Mediterranean region; but from 164 to 198 feet (50 to 60 m), consists of dark-gray
none reached into the arctic region (Arkell, 1956, p. silty to sandy shale, marl, and limestone, contains many
608-618; Imlay 1965, p. 1024; Enay, 1972). limestone concretions in the marly and shaly beds, and
grades into the adjoining members. The upper, or Pi-
mienta Member, ranges in thickness from 131 to 198 feet
COMPARISONS OF LITHOLOGIC AND (40 to 60 m) and consists of gray, dense, platy thin-bed
STRATIGRAPHIC FEATURES ded limestone. Ammonites present in all three members
(Wierzbowski, 1976, table 2 opposite p. 141) show that
GULF OF MEXICO AND NEARBY REGIONS the Jagua Formation is of the same age as the Francisco
Formation in the Sierra del Rosario. In particular, the
CUBA presence in the Azucar Member of the ammonites Vina-
lesphinctes, Perisphinctes, Discosphinctes, Cubaocheto-
The Jurassic formations of Cuba have been discussed ceras, and Glochiceras shows that its age is not older
recently in detail by Khudoley and Meyerhoff (1971, p. than middle Oxfordian.
34-44, 59-67, 104-108). Their conclusions concerning the The uppermost Jurassic in the Sierra del Rosario is
formations have been modified by certain Polish geolo represented by the Artemsia Formation, which consists
gists, as discussed briefly herein and depicted in figure mostly of thin- to medium-bedded, dense cherty lime
21. At the base in western Cuba is the tremendously stone and tuffaceous shale. Its basal beds are of middle
thick San Cayetano Formation, which is characterized or late Oxfordian Age, as shown by the presence of the
by dark-gray to black carbonaceous shale, siltstone, and ammonites Mirosphinctes and Cubaochetoceras (Wierz
fine-grained sandstone. Locally it is slightly metamor bowski, 1976, p. 145; Kutek and others, 1976, p. 302-
phosed. It contains many carbonized plant stems and 306, fig. 6 on p. 307).
near the top contains marine pelecypods of probable Mid Most of the formation, however, contains ammonites
dle Jurassic age (Meyerhoff, 1964, p. 152, 153). It could of late early to early late Tithonian Age (Imlay, 1942;
be equivalent to all or part of the plant-bearing beds of1 Judoley and Furrazola-Bermudez, 1968, p. 3, 17, 23-25)
Toarcian to Bathonian Age in southern Mexico. Its upper and perhaps also contains a later Tithonian assemblage
part is now dated as early middle Oxfordian on the basis characterized by Dalmasiceras and Spiticeras (Housa
of its gradational contact with the overlying Francisco and de la Nuez, 1973). The earliest Tithonian fossils were
Formation, which is mostly of middle Oxfordian Age found 165-230 feet (50-70 m) above the base of the for
(Wierzbowski, 1976, p. 141). Such an age is supported mation near Cinco Pesos (Wierzbowski, 1976, p. 145; Ku
by the presence of the Oxfordian ammonites Peris- tek and others, 1976, p. 315; Judoley and Furrazola-Ber-
phinctes (Dichotomosphinctesl) and P. (Discosphinctes) miidez, 1965, p. 15), which means that the latest
in the upper 35 to 100(?) meters of the San Cayetano Oxfordian, all of the Kimmeridgian, and the earliest Ti
Formation in the Sierra del Rosario (Myczynski and thonian must be accounted for by the basal 50 m of the
Pszczolkowski, 1976). Artemsia Formation.
Conformably above the San Cayetano Formation in The uppermost Jurassic beds above the Jagua For
the Sierra del Rosario is the Francisco Formation, which mation in the Sierra de los Organos are now placed in the
ranges in thickness from 43 to 82 feet (13 to 25 m), con Guasasa Formation of Herrera (1961, p. 11-14) by Cu
sists of rather soft shale, marl, limestone, and some ban and Polish geologists (Wierzbowski, 1976, p. 144;
sandstone, and contains ammonites of middle to probable Kutek and others, 1976, p. 312). These geologists aban
early late Oxfordian Age (Kutek and others, 1976, p. doned the term Vinales Limestone because it was poorly
300-305; Wierzbowski, 1976, table 2 opposite p. 141, p. defined and had been used for different rock units in dif
152-159; Myczynski, 1976, p. 269, 292; Sanchez Roig, ferent areas. Thus, the term Vinales Limestone as used
1920, 1951; O'Connell, 1920; Jaworski, 1940; Burck- by Imlay (1942) includes both the Artemsia Formation in
hardt, 1930, p. 61, 62; Spath, 1931, p. 400; Arkell, 1956, the Sierra del Rosario and the Guasasa Formation in the
p. 572, 573). Sierra del Organos. The Vinales Limestone as used by
Conformably above the San Cayetano in the Sierra Khudoley and Meyerhoff (1971, p. 10-11) and by Judo
de los Organos is the Jagua Formation (Wierzbowski, ley and Furrazola-Bermudez (1968, p. 17) represents the
1976, p. 141-143; Hatten, 1967, p. 782), which consists lower member of the Guasasa Formation.
of three members. The lower, or Azucar Member, ranges The Guasasa as used by these geologists ranges in
in thickness from 158 to 250 feet (48 to 76 m) and con thickness from about 4,265 to 4,600 feet (1,300 to 1,400
sists of gray to black thin-bedded limestone that varies m) and consists of two members. Its upper member is
104°
98° 92° 86°
I A
Monterrey* NUEVO Reynosa r>
£n• ^,\ LEON S rf O
18°
1. Western Cuba 6. Sierra de Catorce, San Luis Potosi', central Mexico

2. Gulf region of United States 7. Villa Juarez area, eastern Durango, central Mexico
3. Monterrey area, northeastern Mexico 8. Placer de Guadalupe and Plomosas areas, east-central Chihuahua
4. Mountains west of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, eastern Mexico 9. Malone Mountains, southeast of El Paso, west Texas
5. Huasteca area, northern Hidalgo to southern San Luis Potosi' east
ern Mexico (5a=Huehuetla; 5b=Huauchinango;5c=Huay-
acocotla)
FIGURE 17.—Index map of Jurassic areas in the Gulf of Mexico and nearby regions. Numbers 1 to 9 refer to stratigraphic sequences shown in
figure 21.
990-1,320 feet (300-400 m) thick and consists of hard, The upper member of the Guasasa Formation has
compact, gray to black, highly fossiliferous thin- to thick- furnished ammonite assemblages at several levels, ac
bedded limestone. Its lower member, the San Vicente cording to Housa and de la Nuez (1975). Of these, the
Member (Herrera, 1961, p. 11), is at least 3,280 feet lowermost, collected directly above the massive lime
(1,000 m) thick. It consists of gray to black, mostly thick- stone of the lower member, contains Mazapilites, Pro-
bedded to massive limestone, some dolomite, and in tancyloceras, and Pseudolissoceras, of middle early Ti-
places lentils and concretions of chert. It is marked bas- thonian Age; the next higher contains Torquatisphinctes
ally by a breccia composed 'of rounded to angular black and Parapallasiceras of late early Tithonian Age; and
limestone fragments that have been interpreted as evi the uppermost, obtained near the top of the Guasasa
dence for a disconformity (Herrera, 1961, p. 11; Judoley Formation, contains some early late Tithonian ammon
and Furrazola-Bermiidez, 1965, p. 20; Khudoley and ites, which were described by Imlay (1942) as late Port-
Meyerhoff, 1971, p. 10-11). landian.
124° 108°
120° 116° 112°
LOCATION OF STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES

1. Santa Ana and Santa Monica Mountains,southern California
2. Western Nevada
3. Taylorsville area, northeastern California
4. Gold-belt area, east-central California
5. Big Bend area, north-central California
6. Western California from San Diego northward
7. Parts of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon
8. Parts of southwestern Oregon
9. Suplee and Izee-Seneca areas, east-central Oregon
10. Ironside-Brogan-Huntington area, eastern Oregon, and Mineral
area, Idaho
11. Wallowa Mountains, northeastern Oregon
12. Snake River Canyon, 32 miles south of northeast comer of Oregon
13. Snake River Canyon, northeast corner of Oregon
14. Cascade Mountains, northwestern Washington
till
0 50 100 150 200 KILOMETERS
FIGURE 18.—Index map of Jurassic areas in the Pacific Coast region from California and Nevada to Washington. Numbers 1-9 refer to strati-
graphic sequences illustrated in figure 22. Numbers 10-14 refer to stratigraphic sequences shown in figure 23.
148° 144° 140° 136° 132° 128° 124° 120° 116°
QUEEN
CHARLOTTE^ 4
ISLANDS
1. Harrison Lake area, British Columbia

2. Taseko Lake area, British Columbia
3. Vancouver Island, British Columbia
4. Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia
5. Sm it hers area-Tenas Creek-McDonell Lake, British Columbia
6. Tulsequah area, British Columbia
7. Whitehorse area, Yukon Territory 50°
8. Eastern Alaska Range and Nutzotin Mountains, Alaska
9. Wrangell Mountains, Alaska
10. Talkeetna Mountains (Nelchina area), Alaska
VANCOUVER ISLAND
FIGURE 19.—Index map of Jurassic areas in the Pacific Coast region from British Columbia to southern Alaska. Numbers 1-10 refer to strati-
graphic sequences shown in figure 24.
This lower member of the Guasasa Formation has and could be contemporaneous with deposition of the
not been dated by fossils. Its age, however, must be Buckner Formation in the Gulf of Mexico region.
mostly Kimmeridgian on the basis of its disconformable The Jurassic may also be represented in north-cen
relationship with the underlying Jagua Formation of tral Cuba by the Punta Alegre Formation, which consists
middle to late Oxfordian Age and on the presence ofMa- of 2,000 feet (610 m) or more mostly of salt and anhy
zapilites in the basal beds of the upper member. The dis- drite, but includes some red to gray shale and siltstone,
conformity at the base of the lower member could be of and is known only from four salt domes. (Khudoley and
latest Oxfordian or earliest Kimmeridgian Age, or both, Meyerhoff, 1971, p. 40, 41). Some red silty shale in the
116° 112'° 108° 104° 100° 96° 92°
\ \
Rocky Mountains of southwestern Alberta
Swift Reservoir, Sun River area, northwestern
Montana
SASKATCHEWAN Southwest of Craig.Mont.
Smith River, south of Great Falls, Mont.
Bert Creek, southeast of Great Falls, Mont.
Near Utica on Judith River, Mont.
Big Snowy Mountains near Heath, Mont.
1 \ > Button Butte, Mont-
I \ I Porcupine Dome, Mont.
Northeastern Montana and northwestern
%——I \ __ CANADA _1 North Dakota
UNITED fSTATES Southwestern Saskatchewan
48° BEAR PAW Ammon Quad., southeastern Idaho
MTS Red Mountain, southeastern Idaho
Lower Slide Lake, Wyo-
LITTLE ROCKS Green River Lakes, northwestern Wyoming
Red Creek, northwestern Wyoming
MTS x 10 I NORTH Near Hyattville, north-central Wyoming
Muddy Creek, north-central Wyomjng
Bush Canyon, northeastern Wyoming
East of Newcastle, northeastern Wyoming
Minnekahta area, southwestern South Da ita
MONTANA Burr Fork, east of Salt Lake City, Utah
'<£> * •Billings Peoa-Oakley area, north-central Utah
Columbus Duchesne River near Hanna, Utah
Lake Fork, northeastern Utah
Whiterocks River canyon, northeastern Utah
Dinosaur Quarry, northeastern Utah
Miller Creek, northwestern Colorado
Elk Creek erea, northern Colorado
44< Frarrtz Creek, northern Colorado
Hahns Peak, northern Colorado
Monks Hollow, north-central Utah
Nephi-Levan area, central Utah
Gunnison-Salina area, south-central Utah
Buckhorn Wash, east-central Utah
Black Dragon Canyon ..east-central Utah
"""" ' ~ "JZ.
XT>___ __ San Rafael River, east-central Utah
Dewey Bridge, east-central Utah
John Brown Valley, southwestern Colorado
Slick Rock area, southwestern Colorado
McElmo Canyon, southwestern Colorado.
Gunlock, southwestern Utah
Danish Ranch, southwestern Utah
Kanarraville-Cedar City, southwestern Utah
Mount Carmel Junction, southwestern Utah
Brown Canyon, southwestern Utah
Little Bull valley, southwestern Utah
Pine Creek, south-central Utah
40° Sand Valley, north-central Arizona
Page, north-central Arizona
Big Hollow Wash, southeastern Utah
Cow Springs, northeastern Arizona
KANSAS
36° t=:
NEW MEXICO
• Santa Fe OKLAHOMA
TEXAS
FIGURE 20.—Index map of Jurassic areas in the western interior region. Numbers 1-11 refer to stratigraphic sequences shown in figure 25;
numbers 12-21 refer to sequences shown in figure 26; numbers 22-31 refer to sequences shown in figure 27; numbers 32-41 refer to
sequences shown in figure 28; and numbers 42-52 refer to sequences shown in figure 29. Western and southern limits of Jurassic deposition
are indicated by a solid line.
Western Cuba 1
English Sierra de Monterrey area, western Mountains west of
Stage Sierra Gulf Region of United States Nuevo Leon and eastern Ciudad Victoria,
Formations tps , del
Organos Rosario CoahuNa Tamaulipas
Overlying beds Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous
Purbeck
Beds
Portland
Beds
La Cesita Formation La Casita Formation
Tithonian Guasasa Schuler Formation 860-2800 ft (275-895 m) 110-330 ft (35-105 m)
Formation Artemsia 0-2000 ft plus (0-640 m) Upper part mostly Dark shaly to thin-
3600- Formation Red to gray sandstone sandstone but includes bedded limestone and
4300ft 750-2000 ft Cotton Valley Group, and shale. some sandy limestone shale. Sandy beds at
(1060- (240-700 m) undivided Passes basinward into and some conglomerate. base and locally
1400m) normal marine facies Lower part mostly shale higher
Kimmeridge
Clay and siltstone
ssier
Kimmeridgian Formation Olvido Formation \
0-2350 ft 325-650 ft (100-200 m) >
-> l/OHinjurai Limestone, gypsum,
Buekner Formation 0-890 ft (285 mKâlcareous and red beta____
Smackoyer Formation 0-1650 ft (525 m) Zuloaga Limestone
Jagua Mostly limestone, locally sandy_____ Zuloaga Limestone
Francisco 200-250 ft (64-80 m) 160-265 ft (50-85 m)
Corallian Formation Formation Norphlet Formation 15-150 ft (5-48 m) Thin to thick-bedded
Beds 460-655 ft 43-82 ft Red-gray shale and sandstone, pebbly at has
Oxfordian (140-200 m) (13-25 m)
Louann Salt 5000 ft or less (1500 m) Minas Vieias Formation - -'J-

Oxford 0-4000 ft (1285m) La Joya Formation
Clay Gypsum and salt 0-200 ft (0-65 m)
Varicolored
Anhydrite (50-110 ft) siltstone and
Callovian Werner Formation sandstone.
150-200 ft (48-64 m) Red shale and sandstone. Conglomerate in
Kellaways San Cayetano Locally conglomeratic upper part and
Beds Formation
5000-10,000 ft
Cornbrash (1500-3000 m)
Beds Carbonaceous to
sandy shale,
siltstone.and
Bathonian fine-grained
Fullers sandstone.
Earth Many plant stems.
Slight matamorphism
of some beds
Ostrea and Vaugonia

occur in upper 2000 ft
Bajocian Inferior
Oolite
Toarcian Upper
Lias
Middle
Lias
Pliensbachian
Lower
Lias
Sinemrian
Hettangian
Underlying beds Paleozoic Paleozoic \ Upper Triassicf?) Triassic Permian
A. Western Cuba to Victoria, Mexico.
FIGURE 21.—CORRELATIONS AND COMPARISONS OF JURASSIC ROCKS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO AND NEARBY
REGIONS. Vertical lines indicate strata as missing; right-diagonal lines indicate strata are not exposed; left-diagonal lines indicate lack of
fossil data; wavy lines indicate unconformity or disconformity; jagged lines indicate gradational or indefinite contact. Column numbers
refer to locations shown on figure 17.
7 Characteristic Fossils
Huasteca area,from Taman, Sierra de Catorce, Villa Juarez, Placer de Guadalupe Malone Mountains, Gulf of Mexico region Northeastern Guerrero
San Luis Potosf,to San Luis Potosi" eastern Durango and Plomosas, west Texas and nearby areas and- western Oaxaca
Huauchinango, Hidalgo eastern Chihuahua
Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous ,ower Cretaceous
Substeueroceras*
Substeueroceras, Proniceras, ( Burckhardt/1930,
Pirn lent a Formation La Casita Formation and Autacosphinctes p. 99)_______
La Caia Formation
120-215 ft (40-70 m) 170 ft (53m) 1390 ft (445 m) Kossmatia victoris and
Dark gray to black Durangites vulgaris
shale and thin-to Malone Formation
medium-bedded limestone. La Casita Formation Virgatosphinctes and
Thin-bedded limestone Sandstone, thick- 2425 ft (780 m). Dark 150-1060 ft (48- Subptanitesl
Many thin lenses of black and shale underlain bedded; some 340 m) Black lime
chert shale and some
by thick-bedded shale, limestone shaly limestone. stone mostly in MazapithGs and
limestone and conglomerate. Sandstone 160 ft thick upper 150-330 ft. Virgatosphinctes
occurs 150 ft above Clastic rocks mostly aguilari ,——? -
base of shale. Lime in lower 170-685 ft.
Taman Formation 120-180ft Conglomerate at base stone conglomerate Conglomerate or Hybonoticeras
Conglomerate at base locally at base locally gypsum
(30-60 m) Locally absent. locally st base Glochiceras fialar
Black, medium-bedded to /_bcwas*(Burckhardt,
shaly limestone and shale Idoceras spp. 1930, p. 99)
Locally pebbly at base
Ataxioceras and Rasenia
La Gloria Formation Discosphinctes carribeanus
2395 ft (768 m) and Ochetoceras
Zuloaga Limestone canaticulatum
810 ft (260m) Mostly sandstone,
conglomerate at base Dichotomosphinctes
durangensis and Creniceras
Santiago
Formation
0-500 ft (160m)
Shale, dark gray,
and some pebbly
limestone
La Joya Formation 375- La Joya Formation 500-
500 ft (120-160 m) Red Peltoceras
1000 ft (152-320 m)
shale, sandstone.and Red shale, sandstone,
siltstone- Conglomerate and lava. Age not Erymnoceras cf. £.
at base about 100ft mixtecorum* (Erben, Erymnoceras
confirmed mixtecorum
thick 1956b. p. 40)_____
Neuqueniceras and Neuqueniceras and
Reineckeia Reineckeia
Kepplerites* (Cantu Eurycepha/ites and
Chapa, Xenocepha/ites
Wagnericerasi* 1969,p. 5) Epistrenoceras
Cahuasas Planfand coal-
Formation bearing beds
130-3600 ft
(40T1200 m) Zigzagiceras
Varicolored shale, Nonmsrine beds
siltstone, sand on surface in Parastrenoceras
stone.and eastern Mexico
conglomerate. Leptosph metes!
Commonly
cross bedded Normannites and
Steohanoceras
Nonmarine beds
Igneous intrusions, in subsurface in
folding and faulting, eastern Mexico
some metamocphism,
and then erosion of
Lower Jurassic beds. Plant-and coal-
Exact duration unknown bearing or non-
marine beds
Arieticeras
?J
Uptonia7
Huayacocotla Formation
170073600 ft (560-1200 m)
Phyllitic carbonaceous Echioceras
shale and thin-bedded Red phyllitic shale, Oxynoticeras
sandstone. may contain Arnioceras
Conglomerate at base. and Vermiceras(Erben,
Some coaly beds at top. 1996a, p. 46; Carrillo
Not deposited in eastern Bravo, 1961, p. 42).
most Veracruz Not confirmed Arnioceras
Coroniceras
iassic \ Permian Permian Permian Permian

* Reported but not described
B. Huasteca area, Mexico, to Malone Mountains, Tex.

salt has furnished pollen dated as post-Permian and pre- Salt in places, as shown by the fact that updip, it succes
Cretaceous (Meyerhoff and Hatten, 1968, p. 327). An sively overlaps the Werner Formation, the Eagle Mills
Early to Middle Jurassic age is favored by Meyerhoff, Formation, and then the underlying Paleozoic rocks. By
and an Early to Late Jurassic age, older than the Artem- contrast, in Clarke County, Miss., the Norphlet Forma
sia Formation, is favored by Khudoley (Khudoley and tion, as interpreted by Badon (1975), passes laterally into
Meyerhoff, 1971, p. 38). Apparently both geologists fa the Louann Salt. He considers that the basal black-shale
vor correlation of the Punta Alegre Formation with the unit was formed in a depression on the surface of salt
Louann Salt and probable equivalent salt masses in beds during a retreat of the evaporitic basin; that the
northeastern and southeastern Mexico. overlying red siltstone unit was deposited in an intertidal
to supratidal environment during further retreat of the
GULF REGION OF THE UNITED STATES
evaporitic basin; and that the highest unit, consisting of
red to gray quartz sandstone, was deposited in both in
The lithologic characteristics, stratigraphic relation tertidal and eolian environments near the end of deposi
ships, and ages of the Jurassic formations of the south tion of the evaporitic deposits. Badon interprets the
eastern United States have been discussed in many pa sharp contact of the Norphlet Formation with the over
pers (Weeks, 1938; Hazzard, 1939, p. 155-158; Hazzard lying Smackover Formation as evidence of a major
and others, 1947; Philpott and Hazzard, 1949; Imlay, transgression related to partial opening of connections
1940b, 1943a, 1952a; Swain, 1944,1949; Vestal, 1950; Ap- with a major ocean. His interpretation of the nature of
plin and Applin, 1944, 1953, 1965, p. 18-29; Forgotson, the contact between the Norphlet Formation and the
1954; McKee and others, 1956; Murray, 1961, p. 282- Louann Salt is not based on cores that show the contact,
297; Jux, 1961; Thomas and Mann, 1963; Rainwater, because such cores areN not available in Clarke County.
1967; Bishop, 1967, 1973; K. A. Dickinson, 1968; Maher Evidently his interpretation needs confirmation by addi
and Applin, 1968, p. 9-11, pis. 2-4; Dinkins, 1968; tional studies.
Kirkland and Gerhard, 1971) and are presented briefly The Smackover Formation in the Arkansas-Louisi
here. The stratigraphic relationships shown in figure 21 ana-east Texas area is divisible into three units or mem
for formations younger than the Louann Salt are modi bers (K. A. Dickinson, 1968, p. E10-12). Of these, the
fied from a chart by K. A. Dickinson (1968, p. E7), which upper unit is typically an oolitic limestone, but locally it
shows the changes in interpretations of those relation is dolomitic or sandy. The middle unit is typically a dense
ships during the past 30 years. limestone that contains anhydrite, but locally it is dolom
All these Jurassic formations in the southeastern itic, oolitic, or silty. The lower unit is a dense silty to
States, although defined on the basis of subsurface se shaly limestone, which is usually laminated.
quences in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana, The Smackover Formation in Mississippi and Ala
are fairly consistent lithogkally over great distances. All bama is divisible only into two units (Oxley, and others,
of them extend eastward from northeast Texas to Missis 1967, p. 30-34, figs. 3-5). Of these, the upper unit con
sippi, and all except possibly the Werner Formation are sists mostly of limestone, which varies from oolitic to
present in the southwest corner of Alabama (Oxley and dense to dolomitic and which at one place in Mississippi
others, 1967; Rainwater, 1967, p. 191; Hartman, 1968; is replaced laterally by sandstone. The lower unit con
Oxley and Minihan, 1968; Maher and Applin, 1968, p. sists mostly of a dense limestone, which is locally dolo
&-11). In Alabama, however, some of the formational mitic near its top and thinly laminated near its base, but
boundaries are less sharply defined than they are farther which at two places in Mississippi is replaced laterally by
west. sandstone. The Smackover Formation from east Texas
The lithologic characteristics of the Werner Forma to southwest Alabama is underlain concordantly by the
tion and the Louann Salt, as shown in figure 21, are par Norphlet Formation, although the contact is sharp.
ticularly constant over hundreds of miles. The Werner The Buckner Formation (Weeks, 1938), redefined as
Formation rests unconformably on upper Paleozoic rocks the lower member of the Haynesville Formation by Phil-
in northeastern Louisiana and in southern Arkansas (Im pott and Hazzard (1949), is used in this paper as a for
lay, 1943a, p. 1425; Hazzard and others, 1947, p. 486, mation for reasons discussed by K. A. Dickinson (1968,
487), and it probably rests on the Eagle Mills Formation p. E8). It does not necessarily replace the local use of
of Late Triassic age in southern Arkansas (Bishop, 1967, the term Haynesville Formation. As used by K. A. Dick
p. 245; Scott and others, 1961). inson (1968, p. E13-E17), the Buckner Formation con
The Norphlet Formation consists mainly of red to sists mostly of red shale, anhydrite, and dolomite; locally
gray shale and sandstone but locally contains anhydrite contains salt, siltstone, sandstone, and limestone; is con
or is conglomeratic. It is overlain sharply by the Smack- formable with adjoining formations, except possibly
over Formation. It rests disconformably on the Louann where it thins; extends as a rather narrow lens-shaped
body from east Texas to southwestern Alabama; pinches evaporitic sequences in Mexico directly underlie beds of
out northward; and interfingers southward with the Bos late Oxfordian Age and must have been covered by those
sier and Smackover Formations (Bishop, 1973, p. 861). beds shortly after deposition in order to escape extensive
The Bossier Formation as defined by K. A. Dickin- erosion (Imlay, 1940b, p. 12; 1943a, p. 1437-1438; 1952a,
son (1968, p. E17-19, figs. 3, 10, pi. 1) consists mostly p. 974, 1952b, p. 1750, 1751). All these interpretations
of gray calcareous shale but includes a little shaly or ool and the data on which they are based have been analyzed
itic limestone. It has been identified in northern Louisi by Murray (1961, p. 283-287) and Bishop (1967, p. 248,
ana and adjoining parts of Arkansas and east Texas, 249), who conclude that the evidence favors deposition
where it passes laterally into the upper part of the of the Louann Salt during Jurassic time prior to the late
Smackover Formation, the entire Buckner Formation, Oxfordian or prior to the deposition of the Norphlet For
and the lower part of the Schuler Formation. All contacts mation, which formed a seal over the salt. In addition,
are conformable. an age not older than Middle Jurassic for the Louann
The Schuler Formation consists of red, pink, to gray Salt is indicated by studies of palynomorphs obtained
beds that pass basinward into thicker gray sandstone from cap rock overlying halite on the Challenger Knoll
and shale and that extend from east Texas to southwest near the middle of the Gulf of Mexico (Kirkland and Ger-
ern Alabama (Imlay, 1943a, p. 1459; Swain, 1944, p. hard, 1971, p. 681).
594-600; Forgotson, 1954, p. 2490-2494; Oxley and The Louann Salt and the underlying Werner For
others, 1967, p. 37-40). East of Louisiana, the forma mation were assigned an early Oxfordian (Divesian) Age
tion consists of varicolored to red clastic sediments, by Imlay (1943a, p. 1437, 1438), partly because similar
which in southwestern Alabama contain a great deal of evaporitic deposits in Mexico underlie upper Oxfordian
coarse sandstone and conglomerate. The formation rests beds (Imlay, 1943a, p. 1506-1508) and partly because
on the Smackover or Buckner Formations in nearshore conditions were unfavorable for salt deposition in south
(northern) areas and on the Bossier Formation in off eastern Mexico before latest Callovian time (Imlay, 1943a,
shore areas. This contact has generally been considered p. 1438, 1508-1510; 1953c, p. 31). These reasons have
disconformable (Swain, 1944, p. 592, 1949, p. 1228; For since been strongly upheld by Viniegra 0. (1971, p. 480,
gotson, 1954, p. 2478, 2492) but, according to K. A. 484). The term Divesian, as used by this writer in 1943,
Dickinson (1968, p. E23), is probably conformable ex however, followed Spath (1933, p. 872) and included the
cept in areas where the Buckner is thin or absent. The zones of Quenstedtoceras lamberti and Peltoceras ath-
Schuler Formation is reported to be overlain disconform- leta. As these zones are now placed in the upper Callov
ably by Lower Cretaceous beds in nearshore (updip) ian (Arkell, 1946, p. 12, 13; 1956, p. 10, Cariou and oth
areas (Swain 1944, p. 609; Forgotson, 1954, p. 2490; Im ers, 1971, p. 93), the Louann Salt is herein correlated
lay, 1943a, p. 1467-1471). with the upper Callovian and also with the lower to lower
Elsewhere in the southern United States, the Jur middle Oxfordian as now defined (Callomon, 1964, p.
assic is represented in south Texas by both the Cotton 288, 289; Cariou and others, 1971, p. 93, 94.
Valley Group and the Smackover Formation (Halbouty, The Werner Formation, however, could be some
1966, p. 10, 14, 15, 21) and presumably also by the what older than latest Callovian, provided its origin is
Louann Salt, as shown by the presence of salt domes. In related to major changes in the Gulf region that coincided
southern Florida, the Jurassic is possibly represented by with major marine invasions of the western interior of
part of the Fort Pierce Formation, which consists of North America and of southern Mexico from the Pacific
380-^590 feet (116-180 m) of limestone, dolomite, and Ocean. Of these invasions in the western interior region,
anhydrite, is overlain by beds containing the Aptian am the most restricted took place during late middle to late
monite Dufrenoya, and has microfossils of both Late Jur Bajocian time (Imlay, 1967b, p. 54), a fairly extensive
assic and Early Cretaceous age (Applin and Applin, invasion occurred during latest Bathonian to early Cal
1965, p. 18-29; Maher and Applin, 1968, p. 11). lovian time (Imlay, 1967b, p. 56), and the greatest inva
The age of the Louann Salt has been variously inter sion came during latest Callovian to middle Oxfordian
preted (1) as Permian (Hazzard and others, 1947, p. time (Imlay, 1957, p. 471). The sea partially withdrew
484), mainly on the basis of a disconformable relation during early Bathonian time and during middle to early
ship with the overlying Norphlet Formation; (2) as Late late Callovian time. Comparisons with the ammonite se
Triassic to Early Jurassic, on the basis of pollen and quence in Mexico (see fig. 21) show that the first two
spores (Jux, 1961); (3) as Jurassic, because the conform marine invasions from the Pacific Ocean took place there
ably underlying Werner Formation rests unconformably at the same time as in the western interior region, but
on the Eagle Mills Formation, which contains Late Trias that the third, if present, is represented by evaporitic
sic plants (Scott and others, 1961); and (4) as early Late deposits and red beds below marine beds of late Oxford
Jurassic, because the Louann Salt as well as similar ian Age, and, locally in east-central Mexico, by sparsely
fossiliferous marine beds between normal marine beds of middle Kimmeridgian fossils. Such an age was supported
middle Callovian and late Oxfordian Ages. by an apparent southward gradation of the Buckner For
Dating the Werner Formation as Early Jurassic or mation into the basal part of the Cotton Valley Group,
as Middle Jurassic older than Callovian is unreasonable which in northern Louisiana contains early Kimmeridg
considering (1) the tectonic events that occurred in east- ian ammonites (Imlay, 1943a, fig. 8 on p. 1429, p. 1471;
central Mexico during those times, (2) the fact that the 1945, p. 258-259). Subsequent studies in northeastern
Bajocian sea in Mexico was apparently restricted to a Texas and southern Arkansas indicate that the lower
small area near the Pacific Ocean (fig. 6), and (3) that in part of the Buckner Formation interfingers basinward
east-central Mexico the Bajocian as well as part of the with the highest part of the Smackover Formation (Swain,
Bathonian are accounted for by continental beds (fig. 7). 1949, p. 1207, 1219-1223; K. A. Dickinson, 1968, p.
Overall, dating of the Werner Formation as early to mid Ell) and, therefore, could be partly of latest Oxfordian
dle Callovian is favored because the marine invasion Age in some areas.
across southern Mexico reached the Gulf region in east- The age of the lower part of the Cotton Valley
central Mexico during that time, and this area presum Group, as just discussed, is definitely Kimmeridgian, and
ably was one source for saline deposits later in the Cal its basal part south of the southern limit of the Buckner
lovian and Oxfordian. Formation is earliest Kimmeridgian. The upper part of
The time represented by the disconformity between the Cotton Valley Group between east Texas and south
the Louann Salt and the overlying Norphlet Formation west Alabama has furnished only a few pelecypods (Im
is probably very short because there appears to have lay, 1943a, p. 1472). It is dated as Jurassic mainly on the
been little, if any, erosion of the salt (Andrews, 1960, p. basis of stratigraphic position beneath the Hosston For
220, 225; Bishop, 1967, p. 248, 249). This condition could mation (Lower Cretaceous) (Swain, 1944, p. 609; Oxley
be explained by a sudden deepening of the Gulf region, and others, 1967, p. 38), with which it is disconformable
or of the marine inlets from the Atlantic and Pacific in updip areas.
Oceans, which allowed sea water to invade widely be
yond the area of salt deposition. The presence of con CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN MEXICO
glomerate and other clastic sediments at the base of the
Norphlet Formation could then be explained partly by Most of the Jurassic formations of central and north
reworking of soil as the sea advanced beyond the salt eastern Mexico are lithologically and stratigraphically
basins and partly by uplift of landmasses bordering the closely similar to the Jurassic formations in the south
Gulf region. Thus, the Coahuila Peninsula in northern eastern United States. Thus, the Zuloaga and the La
Mexico at that time contributed a great deal of sandstone Gloria Formations in Mexico match the various facies of
and gravel, called the La Gloria Formation, which passed the Smackover Formation and contain the same ammon
seaward into the Zuloaga Limestone, which closely re ites (Imlay, 1943a, p. 1484). The Olvido Formation,
sembles the Smackover Formation. Similar uplifts in which overlies the Zuloaga Limestone at various places
Mississippi and southwest Alabama apparently started in the mountains from Victoria, Tamaulipas, northward
at the same time (Oxley and others, 1967, p. 47^48). to eastern Coahuila, is lithologically identical with the
The ages of the Jurassic formations above the Louann Buckner Formation and occupies the same stratigraphic
Salt are fairly well established. Thus, the middle and up position (Imlay, 1943a, p. 1495; Carrillo-Bravo, 1963, p.
per parts of the Smackover Formation have yielded late 16). The overlying La Casita Formation in Mexico occu
Oxfordian ammonites (Imlay, 1945, p. 274, pi. 41, figs. pies the same stratigraphic position as the Schuler For
7-14) that are identical specifically with ammonites in mation of the Cotton Valley Group of the southeastern
the lower member of the Jagua Formation in Cuba, in United States. It differs by being gray to black, instead
the upper part of the Santiago Formation in eastern of reddish, and commonly is marked by a basal conglom
Mexico, and in the La Gloria Formation at San Pedro del erate in areas where the Olvido Formation is absent. The
Gallo in central Mexico. As the Norphlet Formation La Caja Formation is the thin offshore equivalent of the
grades upward into the Smackover Formation, and as it La Casita Formation and Olvido Formation and the
is much thinner, it is probably also of late Oxfordian Age, stratigraphic equivalent of the Cotton Valley Group plus
or no older than middle Oxfordian. the Buckner Formation. The La Caja Formation in con
The Buckner Formation has not yielded fossils of any trast to the dark offshore facies of the Cotton Valley
value in determining its age. It was once dated as prob Group is much thinner and contains phosphatic beds.
ably early Kimmeridgian on the basis of stratigraphic po Below the Zuloaga Limestone in the Sabinas basin of
sition in Arkansas between the Smackover Formation, northeastern Mexico is a thick mass of salt and anhy
which contains late Oxfordian ammonites, and the Cot drite, called the Minas Viejas Formation, that extends
ton Valley Formation (now called Group), which contains from eastern Coahuila southeastward into Nuevo Leon
and Tamaulipas and northeastward into southernmost that conditions during the Early Jurassic made the ac
Texas (Humphrey, 1956, p. 25; Weidie and Wolleben, cumulation of thick masses of salt and anhydrite impos
1969; Wall and others, 1961; Murray, 1961, p. 284). This sible in the western part of the Gulf region. Thus the
evaporitic sequence occupies the same stratigraphic po marine Huayacocotla Formation of Sinemurian and ques
sition as the Louann Salt but differs by containing much tionable early Pliensbachian Age is carbonaceous, con
more anhydrite. tains considerable plant material at both top and bottom,
Outside the Sabinas Basin at many places, the Zu- and contains some coal at its top. It lies unconformably
loaga Limestone and the equivalent La Gloria Formation between Upper Triassic and Middle Jurassic red beds;
are underlain unconformably by red or varicolored shale, was strongly folded, faulted, and slightly metamor
sandstone, and conglomerate and locally by some red- phosed before the overlying red beds were deposited;
weathering lava. These deposits, in turn, rest uncon and, finally, was intruded by diabase before marine Cal
formably on rocks of Triassic, Permian, or older age (Im- lovian beds were deposited (Diaz-Lozano, 1916; Burck-
lay, 1943a, p. 1475-1477; 1953c, p. 20-28, fig. 4; Imlay, hardt, 1930, p. 12-20; Imlay, 1943a, p. 1497; Imlay, Ce
Cepeda, and others, 1948, p. 1753-1758; Perez Fernan- peda, and others, 1948, p. 1750-1753; Carrillo-Bravo,
dez and Diaz Gonzalez, 1964; Mixon and others, 1959; 1965, p. 85, 87, 92-95). The diabase may actually be
Mixon, 1963; Carrillo-Bravo, 1961, p. 34^51). These red older than the Middle Jurassic red beds (Cahuasas For
beds cannot yet be dated closely at any place and can be mation), but in the place where the diabase is exposed
dated definitely as Jurassic at only a few places. One of those red beds are missing.
these places is west of Charcas in north-central San Luis The overlying Cahuasas Formation (Carrillo-Bravo,
Potosi, where 160 feet (50 m) of red, pink, and gray con 1965, p. 87-38), formerly included in the Huizachal
glomerate and sandstone, called the La Joy a Formation, Formation (Imlay, Cepeda, and others, 1948, p. 1755-
lies unconformably between the Zuloaga Limestone and 1757; Erben, 1956a, p. 31-34, 1956b, p. 9-12), rests
Upper Triassic marine beds (Martinez Perez, 1972, p. with angular unconformity on the Huayacocotla Forma
346-347). tion. The Cahuasas is overlain disconformably by the
Another place where a Jurassic age has been estab Santiago Formation or in places by the Taman Forma
lished is in the mountains west of Victoria, Tamaulipas, tion, is locally absent within its area of distribution, is
where the red beds are divisible into two formations that more extensive in the subsurface than the Huayacocotla
are separated by an angular unconformity. The lower red Formation (Lopez Ramos, 1972, compare sections CC to
bed formation, referred to variously as the La Boca For FF),and is dated as Bajocian to Bathonianon the basis of
mation (Mixon and others, 1959, p. 762; Mixon, 1963, p. stratigraphic and structural relationships. The Cahuasas
28) or as the Huizachal Formation (Carrillo-Bravo, 1961, Formation must be older than Callovian because in out
p. 34), attains a thickness of 6,500 feet (2,000 m) or more crops it lies disconformably below beds of early to middle
and contains plant fossils that have been identified as Callovian Age (Erben, 1956b, p. 12; Carrillo Bravo, 1965,
Late Triassic to Early Jurassic (Mixon, 1963, table 1, p. p. 88; Cantii Chapa, 1971, p. 36), and in the subsurface
31). The upper red bed formation, called the La Joya it probably underlies beds of latest Bathonian Age (Cantii
Formation, attains a thickness of 165-260 feet (50^-80 m) Chapa, 1969, p. 4, 5). The Cahuasas must be younger
and has not been dated by fossils. Carrillo-Bravo (1961, than Toarcian because in the Pemex-Comales test well
p. 34; 1963, p. 14, 15) considered it to be younger than 102, about 75 km south-southeast of Tampico, it passes
Early Jurassic on the basis of its stratigraphic po downward into beds containing plant species identical
sition and probably of Callovian to early Oxfordian age with species that in Oaxaca occur in the upper part of
on the basis of comparisons with Jurassic sequences in the Rosario Formation, which part is dated as early Mid
east-central and northern Mexico (Carrillo-Bravo, 1961, dle Jurassic (Erben, 1957a, p. 45; 1956a, p. 137).
p. 51; 1965, p. 78, 81-S8). The Jurassic formations overlying the Cahuasas For
mation are all marine. On the outcrop, they consist of the
EAST-CENTRAL MEXICO Santiago Formation (Cantii Chapa, 1969, p. 5, 6; 1971, p.
21-24, 37) of early or middle Callovian to late Oxfordian
Studies of the Jurassic sequence exposed in the Age, the Taman Formation of Kimmeridgian to earliest
mountainous Huasteca area and penetrated by drilling in Tithonian Age, and the Pimienta Formation, which rep
the Tampico embayment to the east have produced pa- resents the remainder of the Jurassic. All these forma
leontologic, stratigraphic, and structural evidence that tions are present also in the subsurface of the Tampico
most of the salt masses in the Gulf region are closely re embayment (see lists in Lopez Ramos, 1972, p. 304-
lated in age to the overlying Upper Jurassic limestones, 317), but, in addition, about 45 miles (72 km) northwest
are probably not older than Callovian, and are definitely of Poza Rica, Veracruz, the Santiago Formation is un
not older than Middle Jurassic. All evidence indicates derlain by the marine Palo Blanco Formation (Cantii
Chapa, 1969, p. 5), which is above ced beds. The age of of the formation has yielded no ammonites of late Callov
the Palo Blanco Formation is early Callovian, on the ba ian Age and none that are definitely of early Oxfordian
sis of the presence of Kepplerites in three test wells. It is Age. The early Oxfordian may be represented, however,
possibly also late Bathonian, on the basis of small am by one deformed ammonite that Cantu Chapa (1971, p.
monites resembling Wagnericeras that were found about 23) assigned to the subgenus Ochetoceras (Fehlman-
79 feet (24 m) below Kepplerites in the Palo Blanco test nites) and by other ammonites that Erben (1957a, p. 47)
well 112 and about 750 feet (230 m) above the bottom of assigned to Creniceras renggeri (Oppel) and to Pelto-
the well, which did not penetrate into red beds. In an ceras (Parapeltoceras) annulare (Reinecke).
other nearby well (Pemex-Coyote 3), Kepplerites was ob Any age determination based on these ammonites
tained about 950 feet (290 m) above red beds. Evidently must await adequate descriptions and illustrations and
an appreciable thickness of marine beds that could be of probably the discovery of other ammonite genera. At
Bathonian Age is present below the occurrences of Kep present, the total age range of Fehlmannites is unknown
plerites. because the genus is recorded from only one locality in
The age limits of the Santiago Formation are well Switzerland (Jeannet, 1951, p. 2, 89). The generic status
established (Cantii Chapa, 1969, p. 6; 1971, p. 22-24). A and exact stratigraphic position of Parapeltoceras is un
late Oxfordian Age for the upper part of the formation known, according to Arkell and others (1957, p. L336).
has been demonstrated at many places by the presence The genus Creniceras in Europe is most common in the
of ammonites identical with species in the Jagua Forma lower and middle Oxfordian but ranges from the upper
tion of Cuba, in the Smackover Formation of the south most Callovian into the Kimmeridgian (from the upper
eastern United States, and in the Zuloaga and La Gloria part of the Quensjkedtoceras lamberti zone into the Au-
Formations of central and northeastern Mexico. A late lacostephanus eudoxus zone). Among the species pres
early Callovian Age for the basal part of the formation is ent, Creniceras renggeri (Oppel) ranges from the top of
shown by the presence of Neuqueniceras in a local facies the Quenstedtoceras lamberti zone to the Cardioceras
called the Tepexic Limestone (Cantii Chapa, 1969, p. 4; cordatum zone (Arkell, 1939, p. 151; 1956, p. 43, 47, 59,
1971, p. 18, 24, 36). Above this limestone in the lower 74), Creniceras crenatum (Bruguiere) ranges from the
part of the Santiago Formation, the middle Callovian is Cardioceras cordatum zone to the Gregoryceras trans-
probably represented by Reineckeia at two localities versarium zone (Jeannet, 1951, p. 101; Ziegler, 1956, p.
(Cantii Chapa, 1971, p. 24) and by Erymnoceras at one 572), and Creniceras dentatum (Reinecke) occurs en
locality (Erben, 1956b, p. 40; 1957a, p. 47). tirely in the Kimmeridgian (Ziegler, 1956, p. 567; Enay
The Tepexic Limestone is dated as late early Callov and others, 1971).
ian because it contains both Neuqueniceras and Reineck The scarcity or absence of fossils of late Callovian to
eia. In Europe, Neuqueniceras ranges through at least middle Oxfordian Age in outcrops of the Santiago For
the middle part of the lower Callovian and is associated mation was ascribed by Cantii Chapa (1971, p. 22, 37) to
at the top of its range with the lowest occurrences of Re small exposures, incomplete sequences (except at Hue-
ineckeia and R. (Reineckeites) (Zeiss, 1956, p. 83; Bour- huetla in Hidalgo), poorly fossiliferous beds, and the local
quin, 1968, p. 23, 155-157), both of which range higher absence of beds of that age. He notes, however, that no
into the lower part of the upper Callovian. In Japan, fossils of that age have yet been found in the subsur
Neuqueniceras occurs below Kepplerites (Sato, 1962, p. face—a fact that he cannot explain biogeographically
18, 19, ,50, 56, 75-79), which does not range above the (Cantii Chapa, 1971, p. 37). Their absence or scarcity
lower Callovian. In Argentina, Neugueniceras occurs during late Callovian to early middle Oxfordian time
above Macrocephalites of earliest Callovian Age and be could be explained readily, however, if the major evapor-
low Reineckeia, and is correlated with the Sigaloceras itic sequences in the Gulf region were deposited during
calloviense zone of Europe (Hillebrandt, 1970, p. 171, that time. This seems reasonable, considering the posi
191), In Oaxaea and Guerrero, Mexico, Neuqueniceras is tion of both the Louann Salt and the Minas Viejas For
associated with Reineckeia, but its stratigraphic and age mation directly below beds of late middle Oxfordian Age,
relations have not yet been established with respect to the position of the Salina Formation in the Isthmus of
such taxa as R. (Reineckeites), R. (Kellawaysites), Xen- Tehuantepec a little below beds of Kimmeridgian Age
ocephalites, Choffatia, Subgrossouvia, Eurycephalites, (Burckhardt, 1930, p. 97; Imlay, 1953a, p. 28-30; Con-
and possibly Macrocephalites or Lilloettia (CantiiChapa, treras and Castilldn, 1968, p. 244), and the lack of evi
1971, p. 19). The evidence to date shows that Neuqueni dence that these evaporitic sequences underwent any ap
ceras occurs definitely in beds of early Callovian Age and preciable erosion at all before the overlying beds were
has not yet been found in younger beds. deposited (Andrews, 1960, p. 220, 225; Bishop, 1967, p.
In contrast to this age evidence for the upper and 248, 249). Dating the major salt masses in the Gulf re
lower limits of the Santiago Formation, the middle part gion as late Callovian to early middle Oxfordian does not
bar the deposition of some salt at other times during the SOUTHEASTERN MEXICO
Jurassic or Cretaceous, as has been demonstrated (Im-
In the Chiapas salt basin the Jurassic is represented
lay, 1943a, p. 1529; K. A. Dickinson, 1968, p. E13-E15;
by a thick mass of salt and associated red to black shale
Viniegra 0., 1971, p. 478, 482-485).
overlain by a thin unit of red beds, which is overlain in
If this explanation is correct, then the poorly fossili- turn by several hundred feet of limestone, marl, and
ferous beds in the middle part of the Santiago Formation black shale of early Kimmeridgian to early Neocomian
could have been deposited during late Callovian to mid Age (Burckhardt, 1930, p. 97, 98; Imlay, 1943a, p. 1506-
dle Oxfordian time in waters that were more saline than 1508; Viniegra 0., 1971, p. 482, 484). Outside the salt
normal sea water, that entered east-central Mexico from basin, the late Jurassic is apparently represented mainly
the Pacific Ocean, and that were a source for at least part by red beds that underlie beds of Early Cretaceous age.
of the thick masses of salt and anhydrite deposited in
On the Chiapas massif, south of the salt basin, some
places around the Gulf of Mexico. That the marine waters
early Kimmeridgian ammonites are reported to be within
came from the southwest or west is indicated by east red beds that underlie Lower Cretaceous beds (Viniegra
ward thinning and wedging out of Middle and Upper Jur
0., 1971, p. 479,480,483).
assic marine sedimentary rocks in the Tampico embay-
ment, according to Viniegra 0. (1971, p. 482, 483). Sim
EASTERN CHIHUAHUA AND WEST TEXAS
ilarly, Cantii Chapa (1973) stated, "In the northwestern
Poza Rica area the Middle Jurassic transgression began Upper Jurassic beds exposed in eastern Chihuahua
during the Bathonian. Later it advanced to the central, near Placer de Guadalupe and Plomosas (Bridges, 1965,
east and west parts, and the covered area is character p. 66-76, 118-120, 132-134) contain ammonites of the
ized by distinct transgressive lithofacies." same age as those in the Malone Formation in west
The marine invasion from the Pacific Ocean during Texas (Imlay, 1952a, p. 973; Albritton, 1938, p. 1758-
salt and anhydrite deposition, as discussed by Viniegra 1761; Cragin, 1905). The beds in Chihuahua differ by con
0. (1971, p. 482, 484, 486, fig. 10 on p. 492), could have sisting mostly of dark calcareous shale and by being
been from the south across the present Isthmus of Te- much thicker. Also, the sequence in eastern Chihuahua
huantepec, or from the west or southwest across the is overlain by 630 feet (192 m) of limestone and marl that
present States of Puebla, Oaxaca, and Guerrero, or by could be uppermost Jurassic, whereas the Jurassic se
both routes. The distribution of Jurassic rocks in south quence in west Texas contains Kossmatia near its top
ern Mexico (Viniegra 0., 1971, p. 481, 483; Sanchez Me- and is overlain by a conglomerate at the base of the Cre
jorada and Lopez Ramos, 1968) shows that both marine taceous^) Torcer Formation. Upper Oxfordian beds have
connections probably existed during Kimmeridgian to not been found in either area, in contrast to their pres
Tithonian time but that a connection from the southwest ence throughout most of central, eastern, and southern
across Guerrero was most likely during Callovian and Mexico.
Oxfordian time. The presence of either or both of these
marine routes does not bar another marine connection
from the Atlantic Ocean while the Louann Salt was ac PACIFIC COAST REGION
cumulating.
WESTERN MEXICO
In summation, all available faunal and stratigraphic
evidence shows that the upper Bathonian to middle Cal Jurassic beds have been identified near the Pacific
lovian marine beds in east-central Mexico were deposited coast of Mexico in northwestern Oaxaca, Guerrero, Mi-
in a sea that transgressed northward or northeastward choacan, western Sonora, and Baja California^ Most oc
from the Pacific Ocean. This sea did not reach the Gulf of currences have not been described in detail and some
Mexico region until early or (more probably) middle Cal shown on the Geologic Map of Mexico (Sanchez Mejorada
lovian time. Apparently, it then became a source of salt and Lopez Ramos, 1968) have not been described at all.
and anhydrite deposited during late Callovian to early That map does not show the presence of Jurassic rocks in
middle Oxfordian time in southeastern and northeastern Baja California, although Buchia piochii (Gabb), of latest
Mexico and in the southeastern United States. Deposi Tithonian Age, is reported to occur at La Punta de San
tion of these thick evaporitic deposits during that time is Hipolito, northwest of Bahia Ballenas (Lopez Ramos,
favored by their stratigraphic position, by the lack of ap 1974, p. 392; Minch, 1969, p. 42).
preciable, if any, erosion of their upper surfaces, and by Furthermore, the Jurassic rather than the Triassic
the lack or scarcity of marine fossils of that time in east- may be represented by specimens of the pelecypod Ota-
central Mexico within a sequence that appears to be piria from Arroyo de San Jose, which is south of Punta
stratigraphically continuous from early Callovian to late Canoas in the central part of Baja California (Lopez Ra
Oxfordian. mos, 1974, p. 375). Such an age is suggested by the close
resemblance of these specimens to 0. tailleuri Imlay area about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Magdalena
(Imlay, 1967a, p. B3-B6), which is associated with the (identified by Imlay, 1975, for Claude Rangin, Univer
Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) ammonites in northern sity of Sonora). The Kimmeridgian ammonites Amoebo-
Alaska (Imlay and Detterman, 1973, p. 16, 17). ceras and Idoceras have been found a little south of Ca
In northwestern Oaxaca and northeastern Guerrero, borca throughout nearly 600 feet (183 m) of calcareous,
the Jurassic sequence consists mostly of Toarcian to Ox- gray to brown shale that is interbedded with some gray
fordian beds that range from 2,300 to 2,950 feet (700 to sandy shale and sandstone (T. E. Stump, Univ. Califor
900 m) in thickness (Burckhardt, 1927, 1930, p. 24-35, nia at Davis, written commun., April 1973). The ammo
98-100; Guzman Jimenez, 1950; Salas, 1949; Erben, nite-bearing beds are 2,000-2,565 feet (610-782 m) above
1956a, p. 107-124; 1956b, p. 18-34, 51-121; 1957a, p. the base of a sequence that is more than 5,000 feet (1,524
48-51). Marine Lower Jurassic beds are not present ex m) thick and that has otherwise not been dated. Presum
cept possibly at one place in Guerrero (Erben, 1954, p. ably much more than Kimmeridgian time is involved.
4-12). Coal-bearing and nonmarine clastic beds are dated
by plant taxa and stratigraphic positions as Toarcian to WESTERN NEVADA TO CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
early middle Bajocian and middle Bathonian. Marine
limestone, shale, and sandstone between the nonmarine Jurassic marine rocks older than Tithonian that are
units are dated by ammonite genera as late middle Ba now exposed in California and western Nevada have the
jocian to early Bathonian. Above the highest coal-bear following characteristics: (1) they generally contain a
ing beds are marine limestone and marl dated by ammo great deal of volcanic material; (2) they generally change
nite genera as late Bathonian to late Callovian. lithologically within fairly short distances; (3) they attain
Gradationally above are other limestone and marl beds, tremendous thicknesses; (4) their major sites of deposi
which have not furnished ammonites but which are dated tion gradually shifted westward; and (5) they have not
as Oxfordian because they contain species of pelecypods, yielded any fossils of Bathonian Age.
gastropods, and echinoderms similar to and in part iden These Jurassic rocks, according to W. R. Dickinson
tical with species in the Zuloaga Limestone of northern (1962, p. 1243-1247, 1253), were deposited in a eugeo-
Mexico. Younger Jurassic beds are represented defi syncline whose eastern margin extended northeastward
nitely only by single occurrences of the ammonites Ido- through central Nevada, then northward through west
ceras and Substeueroceras in western Oaxaca (Erben, ern Idaho and eastern Washington, and then northwest
1957a, p. 51). These Jurassic sequences could represent ward in Canada. Within this eugeosyncline were depos
an embayment directly from the south (Guerrero embay- ited enormous quantities of andesitic material derived
ment), as suggested by Erben (1957b, p. 36-41), or from from numerous volcanoes and now preserved as marine
the southwest (Balsas Portal), as suggested by Lopez lava flows, tuffs, breccia agglomerates, and as an impor
Ramos (1974, p. 385-391, 395-397), or from both di tant constituent of marine clastic sediments. Within this
rections. eugeosyncline were also deposited some sediments de
In western Sonora, only parts of the Lower and Up rived from pre-Jurassic volcanic or sedimentary rocks
per Jurassic have been identified faunally. Pelecypods of exposed as islands (W. R. Dickinson, 1962, fig. 1 on p.
Sinemurian and possibly Hettangian Age have been ob 1243; Dickinson and Vigrass, 1964, p. 1042-1043). As
tained at several places from shale, shaly sandstone, and most of these sediments were derived locally from vol
shaly limestone at least 2,500 feet (762 m) thick in the canic vents, rather than from landmasses east of the eu
upper part of the Barranca Formation (Burckhardt, 1930, geosyncline, their lithic characteristics and thicknesses
p. 23, 24, 41, 42; Jaworski, 1929; King, 1939, p. 1655- change markedly within short distances. Evidently, vol
1659, pi. 5; Wilson and Rocha, 1949, p. 23-29). An early canoes were most common in easternmost California
Sinemurian Age is confirmed by the presence of the am along or near the site of the Sierra Nevada but also oc
monite Amioceras near El Antimonio, about 30 miles curred in adjoining northwestern Nevada and in north-
(48 km) west of Caborca (Imlay, 1952a, p. 973), and Ar- central California (Stanley, 1971, p. 474, 475; Stanley and
ietites in the Sierra de Santa Rosa, about 30 miles (48 others, 1971, fig. 2 on p. 12).
km) west of Puerto (Burckhardt, 1930, p. 23). A late Si The Lower Jurassic beds in this area extend west
nemurian Age is indicated by the presence of Crucilobi- ward across western Nevada into eastern California
ceras in association with probable Aegasteroceras about slightly beyond the crest of the Sierra Nevada, extend
25 miles (40 km) south-southeast of Caborca (identified northwestward into the Big Bend area of north-central
by Imlay, 1975, for L. T. Silver, California Inst. Tech California, and attain their greatest thickness in Nevada.
nology). A late Oxfordian Age is shown by the presence Bajocian beds are similarly distributed but occur also in
of Dichotomosphinctes and Discophinctes in the Cucurpe the Santa Ana Mountains southeast of Los Angeles and
attain their greatest thickness in the Sierra Nevada. monite fragments suggestive of Sonninia dominans
Bathonian rocks have not been identified faunally in Ne Buckman (Corvalari's loc. A-ll) of early middle Bajo-
vada or California but, if present, are most likely to be cian Age.
found at high altitudes in the Sierra Nevada. Callovian The Jurassic sedimentary rocks of western Nevada,
rocks are known mainly from the western and higher as interpreted by Stanley (1971, p. 467-475; Stanley and
parts of the Sierra Nevada, where they attain apparent others, 1971, p. 15-18), were not deposited in a eugeo-
thicknesses of 6,000-8,000 feet (1,830-2,440 m). Low syncline but in a miogeosyncline that extended to, or
ermost Callovian rocks are also found in the Santa Ana nearly to, the western boundary of the State, shown by
Mountains as part of a very thick sequence. Oxfordian the presence of (1) normal shallow-water marine carbon
rocks are known from the western part of the Sierra Ne ate rocks in both the Sunrise and Dunlap Formations;
vada, from the Santa Monica Mountains just north of Los (2) quartz sandstone in the Dunlap and Westgate For
Angeles, and from the western part of the Klamath mations that is nearly identical with that in the Navajo
Mountains in northwest California. Tithonian rocks, al and Aztec Sandstones farther east; and (3) interbedded
though possibly present in the Sierra Nevada (Crickmay, red mudstone and red laminated siltstone in the Dunlap
1933b, p. 903), have been identified faunally in California Formation, which are suggestive of tidal-flat deposits.
only in the western part of the State from San Diego These rocks are interbedded, however, with some erup
northward. tive volcanic rocks and with locally derived clastic sedi
Most of the Jurassic sedimentary rocks of western ments, which are not typical of the miogeosyncline.
Nevada are assigned to the Sunrise and Dunlap Forma Thick volcanic deposits characteristic of the eugeosync-
tions of Early Jurassic age (Muller and Ferguson, 1939, line are found in Nevada, according to Stanley (1971, p.
p. 1611-1613; Silberling, 1959, p. 29-31; Silberling and 455, 474), only in Douglas County east of Lake Tahoe.
Roberts, 1962, p. 9, 21, 29, 32; Silberling and Wallace, Most Jurassic sequences of California east of the
1969, p. 47). Of these, the Sunrise Formation ranges in Coast Ranges and of the western part of the Klamath
thickness from 1,200 to 2,400 feet (366 to 732 m); consists Mountains are characterized by much volcanic material
mostly of interbedded gray massive limestone, laminated and generally by facies changes within short distances.
dolomitic limestone, shale, and siltstone; includes tuff Such sequences occur in the Big Bend area of the eastern
beds and some brown sandstone beds whose particles are Klamath Mountains in north-central California (Diller,
of volcanic origin; and ranges in age at most places from 1895, p. 4; 1906, p. 5; Sanborn, 1960, p. 11-15; Irwin,
earliest Hettangian to early or late Pliensbachian (Muller 1966, p. 23), in the Santa Ana Mountains about 50 miles
and Ferguson, 1939, p. 1610, 1611; Stanley, 1971, p. southeast of Los Angeles (Silberling and others, 1961;
458). Near Westgate, Nev., the Sunrise Formation also Imlay, 1963; 1964c), and at many places in the Sierra
includes beds of Toarcian Age (Hallam, 1965, p. 1487, Nevada (Diller, 1892; Bateman and others, 1963; Bate-
1488). man and Wahrhaftig, 1966, p. 113-115; Crickmay, 1933b;
The Dunlap Formation ranges in thickness from a McMath, 1966, p. 181, 182; Clark and others, 1962, p.
featheredge to about 5,000 feet (1,520 m) and consists B19; Clark, 1964, p. 15-41, Lindgren, 1900; Lindgren
mainly of dark-red to reddish-brown crossbedded sand and Turner, 1894; Turner, 1894; Turner and Ransome,
stone interbedded with some breccia, conglomerate, 1897; Taliaferro, 1942; Eric and others, 1955; Rinehart
mudstone, and volcanic rock. The formation is overlain and others, 1959). An exception consists of the nonvol-
locally by volcanic rocks, generally intertongues basally canic Boyden Cave pendant near the junction of the
with the Sunrise Formation, but in place rests uncon- South and Middle Forks of Kings River in the south-
formably on Triassic or older rocks. Its age is late Pliens central Sierra Nevada, a little west of roof pendants con
bachian to Toarcian on the basis of the presence of the sisting of metavolcanic rocks (Jones and Moore, 1973).
ammonite Harpoceras (Muller and Ferguson, 1939, p. Jurassic sequences in the Sierra Nevada occur in
1621), stratigraphic position above the Sunrise Forma three parallel northward-trending belts that occupy a
tion, and the presence of the pelecypod Plicatostylus, synclinorium (Bateman and Wahrhaftig, 1966, 113-115).
which in eastern Oregon occurs directly below beds of One belt in the eastern part of the Sierra extends for
late Pliensbachian Age (Imlay, 1968, p. C6). more than 150 miles (240 km) as roof pendants. These
The Jurassic is also represented at one place in west consist of metamorphosed volcanic rocks and graywacke,
ern Nevada by the Westgate Formation of Corvalan many thousands of feet thick, which have furnished a few
(1962; Hallam, 1965, p. 1487, 1488). This formation is poorly preserved Early Jurassic ammonites. Another
560 feet (171 m) thick, rests conformably on 1,200 feet Jurassic belt, just west of the crest of the Sierra, extends
(366 m) of the Sunrise Formation, consists of limestone northward for nearly 90 miles (145 km) from lat. 39° N.
and calcareous quartzose sandstone, and contains am near Colfax to the Taylorsville area; it is dated by means
Gold-belt area in Big Bend area

Taylorsville area in western part of of Pit River in
Western Nevada northern Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada, north-central
Calif. eastern California California
Tertiary Tertiary Upper Cretaceous Eocgne\Cretaceous
foariposaForrn st ion
4000 ft (1220 m)
ray to black slate.
ome siltstone.
graywacke.
Logtown Ridge
Formation
6200 ft (1890m)
Tuffs, conglomerates,
lavas and breccias in
Trail Formation 2000-4000 ft (610- upper 4300 ft.
J220 m). Conglomerate, sandstone/ Interbedded slaty
Luckey S Argillite1 600-1500 ft rocks and tuffs in
v(T82~457m) Black slate.gray acke> lower 1900 ft
Cooks Canyon Agglomerate1 1900 ft
^ Breccia, tuff, sandstone (580 m)
. Foreman Formation 350 ft (107 m)
^ Shale and sandstone_____. /
North Ridge Agglomerate1 200 ft
\(63 m) Breccia and tuff
Hinchman Sandstone 160 ft (49 I
Breccia and sandstone_____ Fault contact with
Hull Meta-andesite 700 ft (213 m) a brecciated mass
Andesite breccia and tuff _____ containing blocks of
Permian and possibly
Dacite tuff-breccia 600 ft (183 m) of Mesozoic age
older than latest
Jurassic
'Moonshine Conglomerate 300 ft

(91 m) Agglomerate and red shale
Mormon Sandstone 950 ft (290 m)

Volcanic clastic rocks, black shale
Westgate Formation3 Potem Formation
(Rests only on 1000-2000 ft
Sunrise Formation) (305-610 m)
560 ft (170m) Argillite and
tuffaceous sandstone.
Some clastic
limestone and
Dunlap Formation conglomerate
0-5000 ft. (1524m)
Red, crossbedded
sandstone and
conglomerate
overlain locally
by volcanic ^
breccia and ^^
tuff ^
Thompson Limestone 400 ft(122 m
Red tuff, lava, breccia,
some limestone lenses
Sunrise Bagley Andesite \
Formation Fant Andesite 800 ft (244 m) 700 ft (213m) \
(1200-2400 ft) Andesite flows and red tuff Lava, tuff, breccia,/
(366-732 m) agglomerate /7
Interbedded Hardgrave Sandstone400 ft(122m)
shale and Red volcaniclastic sandstone
limestone Arvison Formation
and some Lilac Argillite1 725 ft (221 m) of Sanborn (1960)
sandstone Gray sandstone and mudstone. 6000 ft (1830 m)
Dacite flows and tuff , Agglomerate, tuff,
volcanic breccia,and
Fault contact with tuffaceous sandstone
volcanic rocks of
uncertain age
Permian Triassic Triassic Permian!?) Upper Triassic

'Lucky S Argllfte, Cooks Canyon Agglomerste, North Ridge Agglomerate, Moonshine Conglomerate,
and Llac Argllite of Crickmay (1933b) herein adopted for U.S. Geological Survey usage,
lonesome Formation and Trowbridge Shale of Lupher (1941) herein adopted for U.S. Geological -
Survey usage.
Westgate Formation of Corval^n(1962) herein adopted for U.S. Geological Survey usage.
A. Western Nevada and eastern California

Southwestern Oregon East-central Oregon

Western California Northwestern Southwest
California ern Characteristic fossils
Oregon West Central East Suplee area (west) Izee-Seneca area (east)
Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Cenomanian Cenomanian
Otter Dot nan Substeuwocwas, \ Buchia aff.
Franciscan Point Formation Riddle B. okensis
assemblage Formation (in part) Formation Buchia piochii and
'in part) (in part) 18,000ft (in part) Kossmatia Buchia fischeriana
11,000ft (5040m)
noxville Uplift, folding, (3353 m)
Formation faulting, granitic Volcanic
2000-13,000 intrusions, rocks,
metamorphism, green
and erosion stone/
and Buchia rugosa
gabbro
Thrust fault contacts.

Gal ice Formation 10,000- Dothan Formation is
15,000ft (3050-4570 m) thrust under Riddle Amoeboceras (Amoebites)
Dark gray to black slaty and Rogue Formations. and Idoceras
to phyllitic shale. Some Otter Point Formation is Buchia
chert,sandstone, con thrust under Colebrook concentrica
glomerate. Many andes- Schist, the probable
metamorphosed equivalent Discosphinctes and
ite flows and agglomer of the Galice and Rogue Dichotomosphinctes
ates. In California,Galice Formations
includes
m eta volcanic Rogue
Thrust fault contact rocks equiva Formation
of Franciscan rocks lent to those 10,000-
with Knoxville Cardioceras (Scarburgiceras\
Formation and of Rogue 15,000ft martini (western Idaho on|yf
underlying volcanic Formation (3056-4570
rocks or locally with m) Lava Peltoceras (Metapeltocerast)
possible Paleozoic flows, ag (eastern California only)
rocks glomerates. /Lonesome Formation* \
Breccias, 10,000 ft (3050m)
and tuff Volcanic sandstone Lilloettia stantoni.Xanocepha/ites
and black mudstone vicarius and Pseudocadoceras grewingki
Thrust fault contacts Trowbridga Shale2 3000 ft (91 Lilloettia buckmani, Keppleritas,
with Dothan For Xcnocephalrtes,_________
mation, Franciscan Macrocephalites (southern California)
assemblage, or
Triassic rocks
Cobbanrtes and
Parareineckeia
Basev Member
nber \. .KM'ddlaX SllviesN
: Spiroceras, Leptosphinctes
500-2500ft (15252-762 m) \ member\ Member Teloceras, Chondroceras. Normannites
Volcanidastic
ic rocks 1000ft \ 1500ft Dorsetensia oregonensis
Warm Springs Member
100-300 ft (30-90,———
ml Papilliceras stantoni, Parabigotites
Lower member
ii 500-750 ft ( 1 52- Euhoploceras, Docidoceras
50r250 ft(15-76mN 228-m) Dark limy -
SiHyto sandy lime-S^ siltstone, clay- Praestrigites, Eudmetoceras Tmetoceras
^ jtone > stone.and scissum
V—X. mudstone. Some
W^ limestone beds.
differs from middle Catulloceras, Grammoceras,
member by lacking and Pseudoliocaras
volcanic sandstone
Haugia, Po/yp/ectus, Catacoeloceras
Hyde Formation 700-1500 ft Dactylioceras cf. D. commune
(213-457 m)Massive andesitic
marine tuff and volcanic Nodicoeloceras
graywacke
r^y~^s~-' Nicely Formation 75-300 ft
(23-91 m) Dark limy claystone and siltstor
tstone Arieticeras, Reynesoceras,
Suplee Formation 30r150 ft (9-45 m) Paltarpites, Prodactylioceras,
Gray limestone and limy sandstone and Lepta/eoceras
Robertson Formation
0-335 ft (1 S,
______UptpniaT._______
Keller Eoderocerasarid Crucilobiceras
Creek Oxynoticeras
Shale
5000ft
(1524m)
Siltstone,
shale.and
tuffaceous Arnioceras, Arietkes,
graywacke Coroniceras.and Megarietites
Murderers Schlotheimia and A/satites
Creek
Graywacke Waehnerocaras and Psiloceras
3000ft
Paleozoic ^Triassic Upper Triassic
B. Western California to east-central Oregon.

FIGURE 22.—CORRELATIONS AND COMPARISONS OF JURASSIC ROCKS IN THE PACIFIC COAST REGION IN CALIFORNIA,
NEVADA, AND WESTERN TO EAST-CENTRAL OREGON. Vertical lines indicate that strata are missing; diagonal lines indicate
lack of fossil data; wavy lines indicate unconformity or disconfirmity; jagged lines indicate gradational or indefinite contact. Column
numbers refer to locations shown on figure 18.
Eastern Oregon in 10 11 12 Snake River Canyon 13 Northwestern i A

Huntington-Brogan- Wallowa Mountains Pfttsburg Landing, Washington in
Stage Ironside area, and near Enterprise, 32 miles south Northeast corner northern and Characteristic foasils
western Idaho northeastern of northeast corner of Oregon western parts of
near Mineral Oregon of Oregon Cascade Mountains
Overlying beds Miocene Miocene Miocene Miocene Lower Cretaceous
Nooksack
Formation 2 Buchia piochii
(Lower part)
4000 ft (t220 m)
Mostly dark
Tithonian siltstone
Buchia mosquensis
and Buchia rugosa
Kimmeridgian
Buchia concentrica
Oxfordian
Form st ion'
2000 ft (610m)
Black mudstone. Cardioceras (Scarburg/ceras) martini
Some graywacke
id conglj
Fault contact
at top with
Triassic
intrusives
Callovian I 7.LI Wells Creek
Black phyllrtic shale Black shale and Volcanics Li/loettia buckmani, Kepplerites,
and slate brown graywacke of M isch and Xenocephalites vicar/us___
(1966) 3500 ft.
(1067 m) Some
interbedded
marine
slate and
Probably graywacke.
Bathonian absent
Spiroceras, Leptosphinctes, Normannkes

Unnamed beds
3000-5000 ft
Bajocian (1220-1524 m) Witchelliat Parabigotkesl
Mostly graywacke,
tuffaceous sandstone, Fontannesia, Eudmetoceras, D.ocidocerasl,
and siltstone. and Asthenoceras delicatum________
Some limestone, Tmetoceras, Eudmetoceras,
conglomerate.and Erycitoides.and Grypheea culebra
lava flows
Toarcian
Hurwal Formation Protogrammoceras, Fucinicsras,

(upper part) Arieticeras, and Prodactylioceres
2000 ft (61 Om)
Very hard, dark
Pliensbachian gray to black
claystpne
and siltstone
Crucilobiceras and Wey/a

Sinemurian Red, purple, and
green conglomerate
at base. Arnioceras and Megarietites7
Hettangian
Underlying beds Upper Triassic Upper Triassic Upper Triassic Upper Triassic
'Coon Hollow Formation of Morrison (1964) herein adopted for U.S. Geological Survey usage.
Nooksack Formation of McKee and others (1956) herein adopted for U.S. Geological Survey usage.
FIGURE 23.—Correlations and comparisons of Jurassic rocks in the Pacific Coast region from eastern Oregon and western Idaho to
northwestern Washington. Vertical lines indicate that strata are missing; diagonal lines indicate lack of fossil data; wavy lines indicate
unconformity or disconformity. Column numbers refer to locations shown on figure 18.
of ammonites as Sinemurian to Callovian. The third Jur may (1933b, p. 905, pi. 25, figs. 4-6) as Parapecten
assic belt extends along the western side of the Sierra praecursor and ranges from upper Sinemurian to basal
Nevada for about 190 miles (306 km) from western Mad- Toarcian, according to S. W. Muller (oral commun.,
era County northward to Butte County and contains am 1958). The overlying Hardgrave Sandstone is probably
monites of Callovian to early Kimmeridian Age. only slightly younger, as it also contains Weyla alata
Within these belts, the most complete Jurassic se (von Buch) ( = Parapecten acutiplicatus Meek in Crick-
quence is exposed in the middle belt in the upper parts of may, 1933b, p. 906, pi. 25, figs. 1-3). The next higher
canyons on the west side and at the north end of the formation, the Fant Andesite, is assigned to the early
Sierra Nevada. The best section on the west side is ex Pliensbachian solely on the basis of stratigraphic position
posed on the North Fork of the American River about 25 beneath beds of probable middle to late Pliensbachian
to 30 miles (40-48 km) east-northeast of Coifax, where Age.
it is called the Sailer Canyon Formation; it is at least The overlying Thompson Limestone is provisionally
11,000 feet (3,350 m) thick and is possibly 20,000 feet assigned a Pliensbachian Age because some gray lime
(6,100 m) thick. The lower 10,000 feet (3,000 m) of this stone lentils within the formation contain the pelecypod
sequence, according to Clark and others (1962, p. B18- Plicatostylus. That genus has been found elsewhere in
B19), consists of graywacke, tuff, and dark-gray silt- beds of that age in eastern Oregon (Lupher and Packard,
stone. Of this, the lower 500 to 700 feet (150-210 m) 1930; Lupher, 1941, p. 239; Dickinsonand Vigrass, 1965,
consists of tuff that rests unconformably on limestone of p. 36, 37) and in western Nevada (Muller and Ferguson,
probable Late Triassic age. The Jurassic sequence, ac 1939, p. 1621, table 3; Silberling, 1959, p. 27). It has also
cording to Taliaferro (1942, p. 100), consists of 12,800 been found in Chile in a sequence dated by means of am
feet (3,900 m) of conglomerate, sandstone, slaty shale, monites as early Toarcian (Hillebrandt, 1973, p. 168,
and andesitic tuff that is overlain by 9,500 feet (2,900 m) 175, 193, 195). Presence of this genus in the Thompson
of volcanic rocks, lava flows, agglomerates, and tuffs. He Limestone was first recognized by Bruce Batton and
reports Early Jurassic fossils 2,500 feet (760 m) above David Taylor, geology students from the University of
the base and Middle Jurassic fossils 9,500 feet (2,900 m) Oregon at Eugene and the University of California at
above the base. Fossils collected by geologists of the Berkeley, respectively, while doing fieldwork with the
U.S. Geological Survey include Crucilobiceras of late Si writer in 1975. Previous assignments of that limestone to
nemurian Age, about 800-1,000 feet (240-300 m) above the early Bajocian were based on the presence of the gas
the base of the Sailor Canyon Formation (Clark and oth tropod Nerinea, which in Europe is not known in pre-
ers, 1962, p. B19); Arieticeras and Reynesoceras of late Bajocian beds (Alpheus Hyatt, cited in Diller, 1908, p.
Pliensbachian Age, about 2,000 feet (610 m) above the 44). That age assignment, however, is not valid for the
base (Imlay, 1968, p. C16, C17); and Tmetoceras of early Pacific Coast region of North America, because Nerinea
Bajocian Age, about 8,500-11,000 feet (2,590-^3,350 m) occurs in abundance in the Pliensbachian Robertson For
above the base (Imlay, 1973, p. 35). mation of eastern Oregon (Dickinson and Vigrass, 1965,
The best known Jurassic sequence in the middle belt p. 36; Hallam, 1965, p. 1496).
is exposed near Taylorsville at the northern end of the The Bajocian is definitely represented by the Mor
Sierra Nevada. The sequence was originally described mon Sandstone and by the Moonshine Conglomerate.
by Diller (1892; 1908, p. 34-60) and dated by Hyatt The Mormon Sandstone contains species of the ammon
(1892, p. 400-412). It was later revised by Crickmay ites Sonninia, S. (Papilliceras), Normannites, and Ste-
(1933b, p. 896-903), who proposed a number of new for phanoceras (Crickmay, 1933b, p. 898, 899, 908-913)
mation names. Still later, it was studied by McMath that furnish a correlation with the European Otoites
(1966, p. 181-183), who confirmed most of the strati- sauzei zone and with the Oregon Warm Springs Member
graphic succession and most of the formational names ad of the Snowshoe Formation, as discussed by Imlay (1973,
vocated by Crickmay. McMath was not able, however, to p. 34, 35).
find the "Combe Formation," which was reported by In addition, the report of Teloceras near the top of
Crickmay (1933b, p. 903) to contain Aulacosphinctoides the Mormon Sandstone (Crickmay, 1933b, p. 898) sug
of early Tithonian Age. The sequence as modified by gests a correlation with the European zone ofStephano-
McMath is shown in figure 22. ceras humphriesianum. Furthermore, the lower 75 feet
The Jurassic sequence exposed on Mount Jura near (23 m) of the Mormon Sandstone on the south side of
Taylorsville (fig. 22) has furnished fossils of Sinemurian Mount Jura contains specimens of Euhoploceras (D. G.
to Callovian Age exclusive of the Bathonian. At the base, Taylor, written commun., 1976), which in Europe are
the Lilac Argillite of Crickmay (1933b, p. 896-^897) con characteristic of the lower middle Bajocian (Sonninia
tains the ammonite Echioceras of late Sinemurian Age in sowerbyi zone) but also occur at the top of the lower Ba
association with Weyla alata (von Buch) (Muller and jocian (Graphoceras concavum zone) (Parsons, 1974, p.
Ferguson, 1939, p. 1613), which was described by Crick- 170).
Harrison Lake area, 1 Taseko Laka area )

Vancouver Island, on' Queen Charlotte « Sm it hers araa, Tenas 5 Characteristic fossils 6
southwestern British (Frebold endTipper,1967;
1951, 1967b;
west side Islands Creek,and McDonall in British Columbia
Staga Columbia. (Crickmay, Frebold
Frebold and others, (Jeletzky, 1950,1954, (McLearn, 1929, 1932, Lake,( Frebold and (Frabold, 1964a; Frebold and
1930, 1962; Frebold 1970; Frabold and 1949; Frebold, 1967a; Tipper, 1973, 1975) Tipper, 1970; Jelatzky,
and Tipper, 1967) 1969; Jelatzky and 1965)
Tipper, 1968)_____ Tippar, 1967) Brown, 1968)
Overlying beds Lower Cretacaous Lowar Cretaceous Lower Cretaceoua Lowar Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous!
Gray shale and sandy Buchia fischeriana and
glauconitic siltstone B. terabratuloides
225-518 ft (69-158m)
Passes laterally Division B, 450-550 ft (137- oiochii and
Buchia oiochii i B. cf.
înto thin graywacke 168m)Mostly gray ahale B. olanfordiana
Tithonian Mostly graywacke,

some siltstone.
500-1500 ft (152-456 m)
Erosion Buchia mosquansis
Passes laterally
and granitic into 150 ft (46m)
intrusions of siltstone
and shale
Kimmaridgian Gray siltstone and

silty shala. Soma Upper
graywacke and pabble shale member
conglomarate. Some Amoeboceras and
230-250 ft Buchia concentrica
gran it a pebblas (70-76 m)
present
454-800 ft (138-152 m)
Oxfordian
Agassiz Prairie Form at ton Black shala and Cardioceras
5000 ft(1524 m) Argillfte soma siltstone Sendstone
member Cardioceras canadense
Kent Formation 3000 ft 1,100 ft (335m) 200-250 ft (61-76 m)
(914 m) Conglomerates Faulted basal ly Cardioceras martini
Ashman Formation Quenstedtocaras henrici
2493 ft (760 m)
Gray to black
Billhook Formation Shale, tuff, siltstone, .ower shale member shala, sandstone,
tuff, braccia, Cadoceras (Stenocedocerast
1800 ft (549m) and some graywacke 250-300 ft (76-91 m) striatum _
Callovian Badded tuffs 150-300 ft (45-91 m) and conglomarate
Mysterious Craek Conglomarate and £hala and limestone ^ Lilloettia buckmani,
Format ton grit. Boulders of Cadoceras catostoma,
2300-2900 ft (700-884m) hmestona at base. Kepplarites, Paracadoceras,
Black argil and Pseudocedoceras
Mostly andesitic
agglomerate,
tuff,end volcanic
sandstone. Some Cranocaphalftes costtdansus
coal. 1750 ft (533m) and Cobbanites talkeetnanus
(not datad)
Erosion and possible / Megasphaeroceras and \
granitic intrusions Tuffaceous shele^ Cobbanites talkaetnanus
and sandstone Smithers Formation Teloceras, Chondrocaras,
100 ft (30 m) \ and Normannhes /
Shala, siltstone, 985-2625 ft
ergillite.end soma Lapilli tuff 600- (300-800 m)
Bajocian 800 ft (183-244 m)
graywacke Graywacke, tuff,
Echo Island 1000 ft (305m) sandstone, breccia, Sonninia and Latiwitchellia
Formation Base not exposed and conglomarate
Erosion and igneous Erycites and Tmetoceras
intrusions scissum__________
Grammoceras, Catulloceras,
and Phlysaogrammoceras
Graywacke, dark gray. Maude Formation Phymatoceras and
Toarcian Basal part contains 600-700 ft Peronoceras
pebbla conglomerata (182-210 m)
1000-3000 ft (305-915m) Mostly gray Harpoceras cf. H. exaratum,
Disconformity may argil life, shale, Prodactylioceras, and
occur at base and sandstone. Dactvliocaras_______
Soma thin beds Amaltheus, Paltarpites,
of limestone Arieticeras, Pleuroceras,
and sandstone. and Leptaleoceras___
Harrison Laka Gradas into
Lava and breccia underlying ;
Pliansbachian Formation 300-400 ft (91-122 m) Prodactylioceras
formation
Argillite 150 ft (45 m)
Volcanic breccia Uptonia, Tropidoceras,
600ftn82m) Telkwa Formation and Acanthooleuroceras
3280-8200 ft (1000- Echioceras
Kunga Formation 2500 m) Volcanics,
Mostly gray argil lite. upper mamber marine and
Some graywacke and 1630 ft (497m) nonmarine
Shale, siltstone, limestone. Soma tuff Black argil lite,
Asteroceras
Sinemurian and argil lite in middle. siltstona, and shale.
720-1350 ft (219-411 m) Lower contact abrupt Arnioceras, Coronicaras,
but conformable Arietites.and
Paracoroniceras_____
Greywscke, gray-green. Volcanic breccia Psiloceras canadense
Hettangian Some green pebbly and lava.
beds 7000-9000 ft Psiloceras erugatus
30-35 ft (9-11 m) (2133-2742 m)
Underlying beds Upper Paleozoic)?) Upper Triassic Upper Triassic Upper Triassic
A. Southwestern to central British Columbia.

Tulsequah area, Whitehorse area, Eastern Alaska Rangen Wrangell Mountains, g 10
northwestern Yukon Territory Nutzotin Mountains ° south-central part Talkeetna Mountains, Characteristic fossils in
British Columbia (Wheeler, 1961; (Richter and Jones, McCarthy C-4 to 6 Nelchina area southern Alaska
(Souther, 1971; Frebold and Tipper, 1973; Berg, Jones,and Quadrangles (Grantz, 1960, 1961)
Frebold, 1964a) 1970) Richter, 1972) (Mackevett, 1969, 1971)
Up >er Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous
3000 ft (914 m)
(Basal part only) Buchia fischeriana and
Mostly argillite. Buchia piochii
Mostly not graded
5000 ft (1524m)
Conglomerate,
graywacke, Buchia rugosa and
argillite, Buchia mosquensis
massive, graded
Sandstone and
siltstone
Root Glacier .5
3000 ft (915m) Formation IE
Mostly dark gray 0-3800 ft (1158m)
argillite. Mudstone, siltstone, 52
u.co
Some siltstone, graywacke, limestone Ampeboceras
mudstone, graywacke, and conglomerate ** Siltstone and (Prionodoceras)
and limestone shale and
II Dichotomosphinctes
Conglomerate
Cardioceras distans
Cardiocaras martini
Cadoceras (Stanocadoceras)
stano/oboida
Chinrtna FormaTion
80.0-2500 ft (244-762 m Cadoceras catostoma and
Siltstone ana shale.
Some sandstone or Lilloattia buckmani
has
Kepplaritas
Arctocephalites
J 44m)
andstone, silt- ,
stone, conglomerate,^
Cranocephalites
• ilya beds_ Cranocaphalites costidansus

Nizina Mountain
Formation
0-1500 ft (457m)
Graywacke,
fine-grained Megasphaerocaras, Leptosphinctes
Tuxedni Group
790-1200 ft(213-366 m) Chondroceras allani, Talocaras
Takwahoni Inklin Siltstone and
Formation 2500 ft (762 m) Stephanoceras kirschnari
Formation sandstone. Locally
11,000ft 10,000 ft Conglomerate, Parabigotites crassicostatus
(3048 m) quartzite, some pebbly or
(3352 m) shelly beds
argil lite.and Sonninia and Docidoceras
some graywacke.
Age uncertain Erycitoidas howel/i, Tmetoceras
Not identified
Grammocaras
Haugia and Phymatoceras
Graywacke, Interbedded 3000 ft (914m) Talkeetna Dactyliocaras cf. D. commune

siltstone, graywacke, Argillite, Formation
and shale. siltstone, siltstone.and 6000-8000 ft
Interbedded sandstone, graywacke (1828-2438 m)
in lower and some Lubbe Creek Formation Upper part: Plauroceras, Amaltheus, Paltarpites
part with conglomerate 100-300 ft (30-91 m) sandstone
conglomerate of volcanic, Spiculite, coquina, and argillite.
containing granitic, or and chert
chert pebbles limy pebbles.
or granitic Middle part:
boulders. Intertongues volcanic flows
southwest and pyroclastics. Uptonia and Apoderocaras
Volcanic rocks with the
present only Takwahoni Lower part: Crucilobicaras
near base Formation 4000 ft (1219m) McCarthy Formation argillite and
Conglomerate (in part), upper sandstone
with granitic member 2000 ft
fragments. (609 m) Chert, Mk
Grades laterally spiculite, shale,
into graywacke and limestone
Present near
Laberge.
Waahnaroceras and Psiloceras
- ^^~s-^
Pre-Carnian Upper Triassic Upper Triassic Upper Triassic Upper Triassic
B. Northwestern British Columbia to southern Alaska.

FIGURE 24.—CORRELATIONS AND COMPARISONS OF JURASSIC ROCKS IN THE PACIFIC COAST REGION IN BRITISH
COLUMBIA, YUKON TERRITORY, AND SOUTHERN ALASKA. Vertical lines indicate that strata are missing; right diagonal lines
indicate strata not exposed; left-diagonal lines indicate lack of fossil data; wavy lines indicate unconformity or disconformity. Column
The overlying Moonshine Conglomerate is dated as ceras (Amoebites), in association with the pelecypod
early late Bajocian because it contains several fragments Buchia concentrica (Sowerby). The underlying Logtown
of loosely coiled ammonites (USGS Mesozoic loc. 27322) Ridge Formation was dated as late early Callovian to
belonging to the family Spiroceratidae and closely resem late Oxfordian on the basis of the presence of Pseudoca-
bling specimens of Spiroceras bifurcatum (Quenstedt) doceras in its lower 600 feet (180 m) and Idoceras cf. /.
from eastern Oregon (Imlay, 1973, pi. 1, figs. 3-8). planula (Heyl) near its top. The underlying "Cosumnes
Next higher in the Mount Jura Jurassic sequence is Formation" (of former usage) was dated as early Cal
an unnamed dacite tuff of McMath (1966, p. 182), which lovian because of its gradational relationship with the
is overlain by the Hull Meta-andesite. These units have Logtown Ridge Formation. Subsequent studies by Sharp
not furnished fossils but could represent any time be and Duffield (1973, p. 3971-3974; Duffield and Sharp,
tween latest Bajocian and earliest Callovian. They are 1975, p. 1, 5, 8, 22, 29) showed, however, that the "Cos
herein provisionally assigned a Bathonian Age mainly on umnes Formation" is not a mappable unit, because it
the basis of stratigraphic positions but partly because consists of scattered blocks of graywacke, clay slate, and
the early Callovian appears to be accounted for by the conglomerate that are bounded by faults and are part of
overlying formations. a melange. This melange is separated from the Logtown
The lower to middle Callovian is represented on Ridge Formation by a major fault involving considerable
Mount Jura by ammonites from the Hinchman Sand displacement and brecciation of beds. The melange may
stone, the North Ridge Agglomerate, and the Foreman involve beds of several ages but is not younger than Late
Formation (Imlay, 1961, p. D9). The next three overly Jurassic, because it bears foliation that predates intru
ing formations have not furnished any identifiable fossils sions of Upper Jurassic granitic rocks.
and could be in part younger than Callovian. They are Marked lateral variation within the Jurassic beds of
herein provisionally assigned to the Callovian because the central fault block has been demonstrated by Clark
the thickness of the sequence from the Hinchman Sand (1964, p. 22, 23, pi. 9), who showed that the Logtown
stone to the Trail Formation is not much greater than Ridge Formation passes southward near the Merced
that of the Logtown Ridge Formation in the western River into at least 15,000 feet (4,570 m) of volcanic rocks
part of the Sierra Nevada and is much less than that of called the Perion Blanco Volcanics. Also, the Mariposa
the Callovian beds in eastern Oregon. Formation locally contains thick volcanic members that
Jurassic sequences exposed in the western part of consist mostly of breccia.
the Sierra Nevada consist of partially metamorphosed The Jurassic rocks exposed in a western fault block
sedimentary and volcanic rocks that differ from those ex have been described by Clark (1964, p. 27-33) under
posed in the higher part of the Sierra in the following formational names different from those used for the cen
ways: (1) none is older than Callovian; (2) they are, in tral block. These rocks are called, from youngest to old
part, of early Oxfordian to early Kimmeridgian Age; (3) est, the Copper Hill Volcanics, the Salt Spring Slate, and
they are much more extensive; and (4) they contain more the Gopher Ridge Volcanics, Of these, the Salt Spring
slaty beds. They have been divided into many forma- Slate resembles the slaty part of the Mariposa Forma
tional units based generally on local lithologic and strati- tion, has been mapped previously under that name (see
graphic features (Turner, 1894, 1897; Lindgren, 1900; list of names in Clark, 1964, p. 29), and contains Buchia
Lindgren and Turner, 1894; Becker, 1885, p. 18, 19; concentrica (Sowerby), a fossil common in the Mariposa
Taliaferro, 1942, p. 98, 99; 1943a, p. 282-284; Heyl and Formation (see Imlay, 1961, p. D14). Presumably the
Eric, 1948, p. 51-53; Eric and others, 1955, p. 10-12; Gopher Ridge Volcanics is roughly equivalent to the
Imlay, 1961, p. D2-D9; Clark, 1964, p. 15-41; Sharp Logtown Ridge Formation, and the Copper Hill Volcan
and Duffield, 1973, p. 3971-3974). Apparently most for- ics, to the upper part of the Mariposa Formation.
mational boundaries have been difficult to trace laterally In comparison with the Jurassic sequence near Tay-
because of complicated and extensive faulting, lithologic lorsville, the lower part of the Logtown Ridge, which
changes laterally within short distances, and scarcity of contains Pseudocadoceras grewingki (Pompeckji), is cor
fossils. related with the Foreman Formation. The lowest part
Thus, the sequence exposed in a central fault block of the Logtown Ridge Formation, which was separated
near the Cosumnes River (Clark, 1964, p. 17-21, 23- from the "Cosumnes Formation" by Sharp and Duffield
26, pi. 9) was dated by Imlay (1961, p. D3-D8) as Cal (1973, p. 3971, 3972) should be equivalent to the Hinch
lovian to early Kimmeridgian. Within this age span, the man Sandstone and the North Ridge Agglomerate. The
Mariposa Formation was dated as late Oxfordian to early middle to upper parts of the Logtown Ridge Formation
Kimmeridgian on the basis of the presence of the ammo are possibly equivalent to some or all of the three upper
nites Discosphinctes, Dichotomosphinctes, and Amoebo- most Jurassic formations near Taylorsville (see fig. 22).
The Mariposa Formation may be correlated by the Bedford Canyon Formation, which consists mostly of
presence of Buchia concentrica (Sowerby) with the Santa dark-gray to black slates and argillite, includes some
Monica Slate just north of Los Angeles (Imlay, 1963, p. quartzite and fossiliferous limestone lentils, and is esti
103, pi. 14, figs. 14-19), with the Monte de Oro Forma mated to be 20,000 feet (6,100 m) thick (Larsen, 1948, p.
tion exposed northeast of Oroville in Butte County, Calif., 18-24; Engel, 1959, p. 16-25). Fossils from the lime
and with the Galice Formation in northwest California stone lentils were once considered to be of Triassic age
and adjoining parts of southwest Oregon. All these are (Engel, 1959, p. 22-24) but are now dated as Jurassic on
characterized by dark-gray to black slaty to phyllitic the basis of ammonites (Silberling and others, 1961, p.
beds that contain Buchia in places. Failure to find Buchia 1746, 1747). Thus, the pelecypod originally described as
in slaty beds in the uppermost Jurassic formations near Tay- Daonella sanctea-anea Smith (Smith, 1914, p. 145) is
lorsville suggests that those formations are older than late now assigned to the genus Silberlingia (Imlay, 1963, p. 100)
Oxfordian. and dated as early Callovian because it occurs with Macro-
Jurassic rocks older than Callovian occur at only two cephalites and Hecticoceras (Imlay, 1963, p. 98, 99, pi. 14,
places in California outside the eastern and middle Jur figs. 1-9,26-36; 1964c, p. 506,508, pi. 78, figs. 22-26). Also,
assic belts in the Sierra Nevada. One of these is along some brachiopods that were once considered to be of Triassic
the Pit River in the eastern Klamath Mountains about age (G. A. Cooper, cited in Larsen, 1948, p. 18), were
30-40 miles (48-64 km) northeast of Redding. It ap apparently collected at the same stratigraphic level as some
pears to be a northwestward extension of the Jurassic middle Bajocian ammonites identified as Dorsetensia and
beds exposed near Taylorsville, although the two se Telocerasl sp. juv. (Imlay, 1964c, p. 506-508, pi. 78, figs.
quences are separated by about 75 miles (121 km) of vol 3-18).
canic rocks exposed at the south end of the Cascade
Range. The other occurrence is in the Santa Ana Moun
tains southeast of Los Angeles. It could represent a WESTERN CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHWESTERN OREGON
southward extension of the metamorphosed Jurassic rocks
of the central part of the Sierra Nevada, just as the Jurassic marine sequences exposed in and near the
Santa Monica Slate near Los Angeles could represent a Coast Ranges in California and in the western Klamath
southern extension of the Mariposa Formation of the Mountains in northwest California and southwest Ore
western Sierra Nevada. gon have the following characteristics, geologic relation
The Jurassic sequence exposed along the Pit River ships, and historical developments:
in north-central California is about 8,000 feet (2,440 m)
thick. At its base is the Arvison Formation, which is 1. They are entirely of Late Middle to Late Juras
about 6,000 feet (1,830 m) thick, consists mostly of vol sic age (Callovian and younger).
canic flows, breccia, agglomerate, and tuff, and contains 2. They are generally many thousands of feet thick.
some conglomerate and tuffaceous sandstone. The Arvi 3. They include sequences of two or three different
son rests unconformably on Triassic beds and at one age ranges that are associated only in the western
place has yielded the Sinemurian ammonites Asteroceras Klamath Mountains and are therein separated by
and Arnioceras (Sanborn, 1960, p. 11-14). The overly thrust faults.
ing Potem Formation (Diller, 1906, p. 5), which is 1,000- 4. Some sequences are of Callovian to early Kim-
2,000 feet (305-610 m) thick, passes laterally in its lower meridgian Age; contain a great deal of volcanic ma
part into the Bagley Andesite. The Potem consists mostly terial; were deposited in deep to fairly deep waters,
of argillite and calcareous tuffaceous sandstone but in on the basis of lithologic characteristics; were
cludes some conglomerate and limestone lentils and ap uplifted, folded, metamorphosed, intruded, and
parently is conformable with the Arvison Formation of eroded during late Kimmeridgian to Tithonian time;
Sanborn (1960, p. 6, 14-16, pi. 1). The age of the lower and were then overlain unconformably in places by
part of the Potem Formation is definitely Early Jurassic, shallow-water marine Cretaceous beds. These se
not younger than early Toarcian, as shown by the occur quences include the Logtown Ridge-Mariposa se
rence of Weyla aff. W. alata (von Buch) (S. W. Muller, quence in the Sierra Nevada and the Rogue-Galice
oral commun., 1958). The age of the upper part is not sequence in the Klamath Mountains.
older than late Toarcian, as shown by the occurrence of 5. Other sequences are of late Kimmeridgian to late
Bositra buchii (Romer) (Guillaume, 1928), and could be Tithonian Age; are mostly nonvolcanic; originated
as young as Bajocian, according to Sanborn (1960, p. 16). in shallow to fairly shallow water, on the basis of
The Jurassic beds cropping out in the Santa Ana fossils and lithologic features; and pass conforma
Mountains of southern California are all included in the bly upward into shallow-water marine sediments
of earliest Cretaceous age. They include the Knox- The Galice Formation is correlated with the Mari
ville Formation of California and possibly the Rid posa Formation of the western Sierra Nevada because it
dle Formation of Oregon, although the last named is strikingly similiar lithologically and likewise contains
has not furnished fossils older than the late Tithon- the pelecypod Buchia concentrica (Sowerby) and the am
ian. They are underlain by unfossiliferous meta- monite Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes) (Imlay, 1961,
volcanic rocks that, on the basis of stratigraphic p. D10). The underlying Rogue Formation, which appar
position, should be at least of early Kimmeridgian ently is gradational with the Galice, consists of many
and Oxfordian Age. kinds of volcanic rocks similar to those in the Logtown
6. Still other sequences are only of late Tithonian Ridge Formation of the western Sierra Nevada. It may
Age, are volcanic, pass conformably upward into be of the same age, but to date it has not yielded any
beds of earliest Cretaceous age, and appear to be fossils. These facts show that the Galice Formation is a
of fairly deep to deep-water origin, on the basis of northward extension of the Mariposa Formation and was
lithologic features. They include the Dothan For deposited under the same environmental conditions.
mation and most of the Otter Point Formation of Similarly, the Rogue Formation may be the northern ex
Oregon and the Franciscan assemblage of Califor tension of the Logtown Ridge Formation, but the Rogue
nia. was deposited under somewhat different environmental
7. The sequences of Callovian to early Kimmeridg conditions, as shown by its lack of some ammonites that
ian Age were deposited in different areas from are present throughout the Logtown Ridge Formation.
those of later Jurassic age and are now juxtaposed Upper Tithonian beds crop out in the Coast Ranges
in the Klamath Mountains by eastward under- of western California as far south as San Diego, in the
thrusting of the younger sequence. Klamath Mountains of northwestern California, and in
southwestern Oregon (fig. 22). In California, they occur
In the Dayville-Riddle area of southwestern Oregon, in the Franciscan rock assemblage and in the Knoxville
the slaty Galice Formation overlies the metavolcanic Formation (Taliaferro, 1943b). In Oregon, they occur in
Rogue Formation. These rocks crop out in an arcuate the Otter Point, Dothan (Taliaferro, 1943b), and Riddle
belt 10-30 miles (16-48 km) wide that extends about Formations.
190 miles (306 km) south into southern Trinity County in Among these rock units, the Franciscan assemblage
northwest California, where they are all included in the and the Dothan and Otter Point Formations closely re
Galice Formation. The Galice ranges from Oxfordian to semble each other. The Franciscan consists mostly of
early Kimmeridgian time. Along the west side of the graywacke but includes some dark shale, altered volcanic
belt, these rocks are in contact with the Josephine ultra- rock (greenstone), chert, limestone, and blue schist and
mafic mass, the South Fork Mountain Schist, and the Do is estimated to be at least 50,000 feet (15,240 m) thick
than Formation. Along the east side, they are in fault (Bailey and others, 1964, p. 5, 20-122). The Dothan con
contact with upper Paleozoic rocks in California and sists mostly of massive hard graywacke but includes
Triassic(?) rocks in Oregon (Diller, 1907, p. 403; Wells black mudstone, chert, and conglomerate. It is estimated
and others, 1949, p. 47; Cater and Wells, 1953, p. 84; to be at least 18,000 feet (5,490 m) thick and passes
Wells and Walker, 1953; Irwin, 1960, p. 27, 28; Dott, southward into the Franciscan assemblage in California
1971, p. 9, 10; Beaulieu, 1971, p. 3, 15, 19, 20, 38). Thick (Beaulieu, 1971, p. 15; Dott, 1971, p. 43^6; Wells and
nesses cannot be measured owing to intense crumpling, Walker, 1953). The Otter Point consists of graywacke,
faulting, and intrusions, but estimates range from 10,000 black mudstone, argillite, altered volcanic breccias and
to 30,000 feet (3,050 to 9,140 m) (Irwin, 1960, p. 27). flows (greenstone), much conglomerate^ chert, and some
At the top of the Galice Formation, a normal sedi limestone lentils and appears to be thousands of feet
mentary contact, instead of a faulted contact, has only thick (Koch, 1966, p. 36-43; Beaulieu, 1971, p. 30; Dott,
been found near the Oregon coast on Barklow Mountain 1971, p. 27-31). It greatly resembles the Dothan For
in northwestern Curry County. On that mountain, the mation but is distinguished lithologically by being darker
formation is overlain unconformably by a conglomerate and more sheared, by containing more volcanic frag
that contains Buchia pacifica Jeletzky (USGS Mesozoic ments, pillow lavas, and fossils, and by its graywacke
loc. M5006) of early to middle Valanginian Age (Dott, being less indurated (Dott, 1971, p. 46). All contacts of
1966, p. 94; 1971, p. 11). This relationship, plus the fact these formations are marked by thrust faults.
that no Upper Jurassic beds have yet been found above Resemblances between the Knoxville and Riddle
the Galice Formation or the equivalent Mariposa For Formations are not nearly as close as those among the
mation, suggests that both these formations were above three formations just described. The Knoxville Forma
sea level and that they provided sediment during depo tion consists of gray shale, siltstone, thin-bedded sand
sition of the Knoxville Formation and the older part of stone, conglomerate lenses, and some limestone concre
the Franciscan rock assemblage (Bailey and others, tions in shale units and is 2,000-13,000 feet (610-3,960
1964, p. 126, 146, 147). m) thick. The Riddle Formation consists of gray silt-
stone, thin-bedded graywacke, lenses of conglomerate, thickness and by its close lithologic similarities to the Ot
and some limestone lentils and is at least 1,100 feet (335 ter Point Formation and to the Franciscan assemblage,
m) thick. Most of that thickness, however, involves beds both of which have yielded fossils younger than Tithon
of Berriasian Age, which are younger than any part of ian.
the Knoxville Formation as now defined. Comparisons The Riddle Formation is definitely of Tithonian to
between the two formations are difficult to make because Berriasian Age in its type section near Days Creek,
the Riddle Formation is much broken by faults and has Oreg. Buchia fischeriana (Keyserling) and Aulacos-
not been studied as thoroughly as the Knoxville Forma phinctes of late Tithonian Age occur just above the basal
tion. conglomerate. B. uncitoides (Pavlow) of Berriasian Age
On the basis of fossils, the Franciscan assemblage is occurs from 20 to 1,004 feet (6 to 306 m) above the basal
dated as late Tithonian to Turonian and possibly Cam- conglomerate (Imlay and others, 1959, p. 2775-2778; Im
panian (Bailey and others, 1964, p. 115-122, table 16). lay and Jones, 1970, p. B13, BIT). The late Tithonian
A late Tithonian Age is based mainly on four occurrences Age for the lower part of the Riddle Formation is con
of Buchia piochii (Gabb) in the northern Coast Ranges, firmed by the presence of B. fischeriana with Proniceras
including one at the south end of Lake Pillsbury. This on Cow Creek near the mouth of Iron Mountain Creek
age is supported by the occurrence of B. piochii with Au- in the NEV4 sec. 4, T. 31 S., R. 7 W., Dutchman Butte
lacosphinctest sp. juv. near Stanley Mountain in the Quadrangle, Douglas County, Oreg. In addition, the
southern Coast Ranges. ammonite Durangites, obtained from a limestone lentil
The upper part of the Knoxville Formation is dated in the Dillard area south of Roseburg, Oreg. (Imlay and
as late Tithonian on the basis of both ammonites and others, 1959, p. 2778; Imlay, 1960, p. 169, pi. 31, figs.
buchias at many levels, as recently documented in detail 11, 12), could be from either the Riddle or the Dothan
(Bailey and others, 1964, p. 124-130; Jones and others, Formation.
1969, p. A9-A12; Imlay and Jones, 1970, p. B5-B12,
B17-B19). The lower part is dated as late Kimmeridg-
ian to early Tithonian by the presence of Buchia rugosa EASTERN OREGON AND WESTERN IDAHO
(Fischer) about 50-100 feet (15-30 m) above the base
of the formation in the Paskenta area (Jones, 1975). As The stratigraphic and lithologic features and corre
signment to the late Kimmeridgian is also favored by the lations of the Jurassic formations exposed in an inlier in
presence of a few specimens that bear very fine ribs, as Tertiary volcanic rocks south and southwest of John
on B. concentrica (Sowerby), and by the absence of B. Day, Oreg. have been described in considerable detail.
mosquensis (von Buch) (D. L. Jones, oral commun., (Lupher, 1941; Dickinson and Vigrass, 1965, p. 30-64;
1975), an associate of B. rugosa, which becomes more Buddenhagen, 1967; Brown and Thayer, 1966a, b; Imlay,
common upward. This occurrence does not imply that the 1964a, p. D2-D9; 1968, p. C4-C21; 1973, p. 8-25) and
basal part of the Knoxville Formation is of late Kimmer are summarized on figure 22. As a whole, the Jurassic
idgian Age throughout its extent. sequences in that inlier are characterized by enormous
A late Tithonian Age for the Otter Point Formation thicknesses, by rapid facies changes, and by consisting
in southwestern Oregon is proven by the presence of mostly of volcanic ejecta, flows, and breccias. They also
Buchia piochii (Gabb) at many localities (Koch, 1966, p. include some sedimentary material that was derived
42, 43). However, a Berriasian Age for part of the for mostly from a landmass to the west where Triassic and
mation is shown by the presence of many specimens of Paleozoic rocks were exposed but that was derived in
B. uncitoides (Pavlow) (USGS Mesozoic loc. 2074) in as part from a landmass to the north where only Triassic
sociation with the ammonite Neocosmoceras, a genus rocks were exposed.
that is much more common in Berriasian than in Tithon Overall thicknesses of the Jurassic sequences range
ian beds. With these occur one immature specimen of from about 1,800 feet (550 m) on the west to about 24,000
Proniceras and a few specimens of B. piochii (Gabb), feet (7,300 m) on the east. Lower Jurassic beds thicken
both of which are good evidence of a late Tithonian Age eastward from about 400 to 1,600 feet (120 to 490 m), to
and both of which have a different colored matrix from which may be added about 8,000 feet (2,400 m) of Het-
the specimens of Neocosmoceras and B. uncitoides. tangian and Sinemurian beds exposed in the northeast
Therefore:, the fossils were probably collected from dif ern part of the Izee Quadrangle, the northern parts of
ferent beds of different ages (Imlay and Jones, 1970, p. the Logdell and Seneca Quadrangles, and the southern
B5, B32, B51, B52). part of the Mount Vernon Quadrangle. Bajocian and
A late Tithonian Age for part of the Dothan Forma Bathonian beds vary in thickness from about 1,800 to
tion is proven only by the occurrence of Buchia piochii 2,750 feet (550 to 838 m) and are thinnest in the central
(Gabb) at one place on the Chetco River in Curry County, part of the inlier. Callovian beds vary in thickness from
Oreg. (Ramp, 1969, p. 245). The probability that the for about 1,000 feet (300 m) on the west to about 14,000 feet
mation is partly of younger age is suggested by its great (4,300 m) on the east.
These variations in thickness are related to nearness The lower boundary of the Jurassic in the Hunting-
to volcanic sources, to positions relative to land areas, ton area, Oregon, is marked by 30-800 feet (9-240 m)
upwarps, and basins, and to the presence and extent of of red, purple, and green conglomerate that rests uncon-
unconformities (Dickinson and Vigrass, 1965, pi. 3). formably on Upper Triassic beds (Brooks, 1967, p. 114-
Widespread angular unconformities, involving intense 118) and consists of clasts derived from those beds.
folding, some faulting, erosion, and changes in direction These clasts are typically compressed and sheared ex
of folding, developed in early Pliensbachian time (Brown cept for certain discontinuous rock bodies of late Pliens
and Thayer, 1966a, b) and after middle Callovian time. bachian Age that occur in the lower part of the conglom
A local unconformity involving folding, uplift, and ero erate. Within these bodies, such fossils as ammonites,
sion developed in the Suplee area in Toarcian to early pelecypods, and corals occur in thin calcareous gray-
Bajocian (Aalenian) time. Another unconformity, involv wacke that is associated with mostly round, nonsheared
ing some warping and erosion, formed in the Suplee-Izee clasts that are a peculiar dark green (H. C. Brooks, writ
area between deposition of the Snowshoe Formation and ten commun., April 1974). In the Mineral area, Idaho,
the Trowbridge Shale but within beds of early Callovian similar coarse conglomerate beds grade downward into
Age, according to Dickinson and Vigrass (1965, p. 83, pi. tuffs that overlie a quartz diorite sill (Livingston, 1932,
3). Nonetheless, the presence of the early Callovian am p. 33). In the Juniper Mountain area of Oregon, the lower
monites Iniskinites and Lilloettia 300-500 feet (90-150 boundary is marked by a thin unit of reddish sandstone
m) below the top of the upper member of the Snowshoe and shale that rests on massive limestone of possible
Formation suggests that the exact stratigraphic position Early Jurassic, Triassic, or late Paleozoic age.
and age of the unconformity needs confirmation. The late Pliensbachian ammonites in the basal con
The fact that the Suplee Formation of late Pliens glomerate are not proof that the conglomerate is of that
bachian Age rests on the Graylock Formation of Het- age, because the conglomerate is overlain by graywacke
tangian Age at one place and on the much thicker Keller that basally contains ammonites of early to late Sinemur
Creek Shale of early to late Sinemurian Age only 6 miles ian Age. It appears, therefore, that rock bodies of late
(9.6 km) away suggests considerable erosion locally dur Pliensbachian Age in the lower part of the conglomerate
ing early Pliensbachian time. It is not proof, however, must have attained that position as a result of southeast
because the two occurrences are separated by a major ward thrusting after Pliensbachian time or by deposi
fault of unknown displacement. Before faulting they could tion in channels or pockets that were cut into the con
have been much farther apart, could have been parts of glomerate or into the Triassic beds during early
different structural plates, and could have had a different Pliensbachian time. The possibility of erosion during that
sedimentary history. Perhaps the best evidence for ero time is suggested by the lack of fossils of that age any
sion is the presence of an angular unconformity between where in eastern Oregon and by the fact that consider
the Keller Creek and Suplee Formations (Brown and able erosion took place during early Pliensbachian time
Thayer, 1966a). This unconformity is well exposed on a in the Suplee-Izee area farther west.
road near fossil locality D66 (Dickinson and Vigrass, Above the basal conglomeratic unit in the Hunting-
1965. pi. 1) in the NEV4 NEV4 sec. 2, T. 17 S., R. 28 E., ton area are some thousands of feet of beds that contain
in the Izee Quadrangle. fossils of Sinemurian to early late Bajocian Age (fig. 23).
Beds of early Sinemurian to early late Bajocian Age This sequence consists mostly of sheared and slightly
and of possible Callovian Age are present in southern metamorphosed gray to yellowish-gray, green, brown or
Baker County and northern Malheur County in east-cen black massive to thin-bedded graywacke, tuffaceous
tral Oregon (fig. 23) from the Snake River westward at sandstone and siltstone, but it also includes some beds
least 50 miles (80 km). Beds of early Callovian Age and of water-laid tuff, conglomerate, quartz sandstone, lime
of probable older Jurassic age are present nearby, east stone, and lava flows.
of the Snake River near the abandoned mining town of Above the thin basal unit of reddish sandstone and
Mineral, Idaho. shale in the Juniper Mountain area is at least 5,000 feet
From Juniper Mountain, about 10 miles (16 km) (1,500 m) of gray shale, siltstone, graywacke, and con
west-southwest of Brogan, Oreg., the eastern (lower glomerate (Wagner and others, 1963, p. 688). Within
most) boundary of the Jurassic extends northeastward this sequence, the upper 2,000 feet (600 m) has been
about 25 miles (40 km), crosses the Snake River about 64 dated as early to early late Bajocian on the basis of am
miles (104 km) north-northeast of Huntington, and con monites (Imlay, 1973, p. 30), and the lower 3,000 feet
tinues another 10 miles (16 km) in Idaho to Dennett (900 m) has been dated as Early Jurassic on the basis of
Creek, where it curves eastward just south of the old stratigraphic position and the presence of Crucilobi-
mining town of Mineral (abandoned). cerast 75-100 feet (2&-30 m) above the base.
In the Mineral area, Idaho, a coarse conglomerate 1968, p. C7, C15, C16). The most complete sequence is
unit is overlain by some 100 feet (30 m) or more of dark- exposed in the northeast part of the mountains (NWV4
gray, sandy, thin- to medium-bedded tuff, which con NWy4 sec. 19 (unsurveyed), T. 2 S., R. 44 E.), is 980
tains a species of Gryphaea (Imlay, 1964a, p. D13). This feet (299 m) thick, is covered by debris basally, and con
species has been found elsewhere about 64 miles (104 km) tains ammonites of late Sinemurian to late Pliensbachian
north-northwest of Brogan, Oreg., in association with Age. Elsewhere in the mountains, early Sinemurian am
the early Bajocian ammonites Tmetoceras and Eryci- monites are known at five places. At one of these places,
toides (USGS Mesozoic loc. 30142). near Twin Peaks (center of SWV4 sec. 17, T. 3 S., R 44
Still younger beds of early Callovian Age are ex E.), the beds of that age grade downward into unfossili-
posed along Dennett Creek and its tributaries near Min ferous beds that, in turn, grade downward into Upper
eral, Idaho. These beds are probably several hundred Triassic beds. On the basis of these occurrences, the
feet thick and consist of dark-gray calcai ^s shale that thickness of the Pliensbachian beds is about 680 feet (207
contains many black concretions (Livingstuu, ^932, p. 33, m), of the upper Sinemurian beds, at least 300 feet (90
34; Imlay, 1964a, p. D3). From a few concretions have m), of the lower Sinemurian beds, 700-800 feet (210-240
been obtained such ammonites as Lilloettia buckmani m), and of the beds of possible Hettangian Age, 200-300
(Crickmay), Xenocephalites vicarius Imlay, and evolute feet (60-90 m).
Kepplerites apparently identical with K. snugharborense Within the Lower Jurassic sequence exposed in the
(Imlay) (1964a, p. D6, D7). This shale contains the same Wallowa Mountains, the early Sinemurian is represented
ammonites as the lithologically similar Trowbridge Shale by crushed and deformed ammonites of the family Arie-
in the Suplee-Izee area southwest of John Day, Oreg. titidae that probably include Coroniceras, Metophi-
(Lupher, 1941, p. 263; Dickinson and Vigrass, 1965, p. oceras, and Megarietites. The late Sinemurian is repre
60-64). Faunally, it correlates with the lower part of the sented by Gleviceras, Crucilobiceras, Eoderoceras,
Tonnie Siltstone Member of the Chinitna Formation in Oxynoticerasl, Echiocerasl, Coelocerast, and Arctoas-
southern Alaska (Imlay, 1975, p. 3, 6, 14). teroceras. The early Pliensbachian is either absent or is
Similar dark-gray to black shale, slightly to strongly represented by 60 feet (18 m) of unfossiliferous beds.
metamorphosed locally, occurs at several places in Baker The late Pliensbachian is identified throughout about 620
and Malheur Counties, Oreg., above beds of late Bajoc feet (189 m) of beds by such genera as Canavaria, Har-
ian Age. It is represented (1) in the northern part of the poceras (Harpoceratoides), Arieticeras, Prodactyli-
Huntington Quadrangle near Dixie Creek and farther oceras, Protogrammoceras, and Fuciniceras. Fannino-
northeast near Morgan, Hibbard, and Connor Creeks by ceras was collected from the lower 350 feet (107 m) of
thick, tightly folded, gray to black phyllite and slaty beds these beds (USGS Mesozoic Iocs. 28809, 28810) in as
(Brooks, 1967, p. 118, location map on p. 114); (2) on the sociation with the ammonites listed.
northern side of Juniper Mountain (T. 15 S., R. 41 E., This association of Fanninoceras with ammonite
sees. 30-32), southwest of Brogan, by 1,000 feet (300 m) genera of late Pliensbachian Age is confirmed by a simi
or more of black phyllitic shale that contains limestone lar association in the Izee-Suplee area southwest of John
lentils and concretions (Wagner and others, 1963, loca Day, Oreg. In that area, Fanninoceras has been col
tion map on p. 689); and (3) by dark-gray to black slate lected with Fuciniceras in concretions and beds in the
and phyllitic shale exposed southwest of Ring Butte in upper third of the Suplee Formation (USGS Mesozoic
the northeast part of T. 16 S., R. 37 E., in the Ironside loc. 29223) and with Leptaleoceras and Arieticeras, from
Mountain Quadrangle (W. D. Lowry, unpub. data, 1968). a 6-inch (15-cm) layer about 15-20 feet (4.5-6 m) above
No fossils have been found in any of these dark shales, the base of the Nicely Formation (Lupher's loc. 125 in
phyllites, or slates in easternmost Oregon, but a Callov Imlay, 1968, p. C13, C15). Arieticeras, Paltarpites, and
ian Age for them is indicated by their lithologic resem Lioceratoides are about 54 feet (16.5 m) above the base
blance to the Trowbridge Shale in the Suplee-Izee area of the Nicely (USGS Mesozoic loc. 29218), and Leptaleo
and to the unnamed black shale near Mineral, Idaho, and ceras, Fuciniceras, Reynesoceras, and Arieticeras are
by their superpositions on Bajocian beds. about 20 feet (6 m) below the top of the Nicely (USGS
Lower Jurassic beds are represented in the upper Mesozoic loc. 27360). In that area, as well as in the Wal
2,000 feet (600 m) of the Hurwal Formation (Smith and lowa Mountains, Fanninoceras is associated with Pro-
Alien, 1941, p. 6, 13, 14) exposed in the Wallowa Moun dactylioceras but not with Dactylioceras. The presence
tains south of Enterprise in northeast Oregon. They con of Fanninoceras in beds of late Pliensbachian Age has
sist of partially metamorphosed dark-gray to black clay- recently been confirmed by Hans Frebold (written com-
stone and siltstone that weathers brownish red and mun., 1975), who has found Fanninoceras associated
contains Sinemurian and Pliensbachian fossils (Imlay, with ammonites of early Pliensbachian to early Toarcian
Age on Maude Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands of Disconformably beneath the Nooksack Formation in
British Columbia. the Mount Baker area of Washington, about 3,500 feet of
The Jurassic is represented in the Snake River Can volcanic beds and some interbedded marine slate and
yon at Pittsburg Landing, about 32 miles (52 km) south graywacke is exposed that Misch (1966, p. 103, 118)
of the northeast corner of Oregon, by at least several named the Wells Creek Volcanics. In the lower part of
hundred feet of tightly folded soft black shale, dark- these volcanic rocks, a few fossils were obtained that
brown graywacke, and some limestone, which rests un- were identified as Middle Jurassic or younger by J. A.
conformably on Upper Triassic clastic rocks (Vallier, Jeletzky (cited in Misch, 1966, p. 118). Lower Jurassic
1968, p. 247). An early to middle Callovian Age is shown beds have not yet been identified faunally in northwest
by the presence of Lilloettia, Xenocephalites vicarius ern Washington, but they may be represented near the
Imlay, and probable Grossouvria. Correlation with the Canadian border by nonvolcanic shaly to silty sandstone
Trowbridge Shale instead of the Lonesome Formation of that Misch (1966, p. 103, 117) named the Bald Mountain
the Suplee-Izee area of eastern Oregon is suggested by Formation.
the absence of Pseudocadoceras. The Lower Jurassic is possibly represented in north-
Upper Jurassic beds that are lithologically and faun- central Washington by a fairly large ammonite that has
ally distinct from any known elsewhere in Idaho and Or evolute coiling and straight simple ribs, as does the Ar-
egon are exposed along both sides of the canyon of the ietitidae of Sinemurian and Pliensbachian Age. This am
Snake River for about 4 miles (6.4 km) just south of the monite (USGS Mesozoic loc. 17460) was collected in the
northeast corner of Oregon (Morrison, 1961). These beds, SEy4NEy4NEy4 sec. 21, T. 35 N., R. 26 E., about 2 miles
named the Coon Hollow Formation by Morrison (1964), northwest of Riverside in Okanogan County. This local
are about 2,000 feet (610 m) thick and consist mostly of ity is nearly due south of Amy Lake, a little above the
hard, splintery, thin-bedded, black noncalcareous mud- 2,000-foot contour on a northward-draining slope. The
stone. They include also some beds of graywacke and specimen is preserved in a black, thin-bedded phyllitic
chert-pebble conglomerate that are most common in the noncalcareous rock that was obtained from a limestone
upper 400 feet (120 m). Their base is marked by a unit 300 feet (90 m) thick. That unit underlies 200 feet
crossbedded sandstone that contains some pebbles de (60 m) of gray limestone and dolomite and overlies the
rived from plutonic rocks and some large rounded lime same thickness of amphibole-pyroxene.
stone boulders. Their age is early Oxfordian, at least The Jurassic is possibly represented about 30 miles
partly, as shown by the presence of Cardioceras (Scar- (48 km) west-southwest of Riverside near Twist and
burgiceras) martini Reeside about 400 feet (120 m) above Winthrop by the Twist Formation of Barksdale (1975, p.
their base (Imlay, 1964a, p. D6, D15, D16). 22-24, 65, 66, figs. 4, 8, 14, 15). That formation consists
mostly of argillitic black shale that is interbedded with
NORTHERN WASHINGTON some dark volcanic siltstone and volcanic sandstone. It is
at least 4,000 feet (1,220 m) thick, but its total thickness
In the Cascade Mountains of northwestern Washing cannot be determined because of tight folding. It rests
ton, the Upper Jurassic is represented in the lower part unconformably on gneiss, schist, and coarse-grained ig
of the Nooksack Formation by Buchia piochii (Gabb) neous rocks and is overlain unconformably by the Buck
(USGS Mesozoic Iocs. 26253, 26267), by B. rugosa Mountain Formation of Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian
(Fischer) associated with B. mosquensis (von Buch) to Barremian) age. Its exact age is uncertain because it
(USGS Mesozoic Iocs. 26249, 26265) (Popenoe and oth has yielded only molds of belemnites and of fragments of
ers, 1960, p. 1533), and by Buchia fischeriana cycads. Barksdale (1975, p. 22-24) suggested, however,
(d'Orbigny) and B. cf. B. blanfordiana (Stoliczka) (Univ. that the Twist Formation is possibly of Early to Middle
California, Berkeley, Nos. 34709^11; Jeletzky, 1965, pi. Jurassic age. Such an age is supported by the presence
3, figs. 2-4). In addition, B. concentrica (Sowerby) may of an Early Jurassic ammonite in similar black rock near
be represented by specimens identified as Aucella er- Riverside.
ringtoni Gabb by T. W. Stanton (in Smith and Calkins,
1904, p. 27). The presence of B. rugosa and B. mos- BRITISH COLUMBIA TO SOUTHERN ALASKA
guensis is significant because they are widely distributed
from Washington northward to Alaska and the arctic re Reasonably accurate interpretations of Jurassic his
gion (Frebold and Tipper, 1970, p. 14-21; Frebold, tory in California, Nevada, Washington, and Oregon re
1964a, p. 4; Imlay and Detterman, 1973, p. 11, 13, 19, quire that the Jurassic sequences exposed there be com
26, 27). They are unknown, however, in the United pared and correlated with some of the best known
States south of northern Washington, except for one oc sequences in westernmost Canada (Brown, 1968; Crick-
currence of B, rugosa at the base of the Knoxville For may, 1930, 1962; Frebold, 1951a, b; 1964a, 1964d, 1966,
mation near Paskenta, Calif. 1967a, 1967b; Frebold and Tipper, 1967, 1970, 1973; Fre-
bold, Tipper and Coates, 1969; Jeletzky, 1950, 1953, of Vancouver Island (Jeletzky, 1970, p. 22, 23). The most
1965; Jeletzky and Tipper, 1968; McLearn, 1929, 1932, striking difference is that Tithonian beds in California
1949; Tipper and Richards, 1976) and southern Alaska and Oregon occur only in the westernmost parts of those
(Berg, Jones, and Richter, 1972; Grantz, 1960, 1961; Im- States and represent mainly the upper part of that stage.
lay and Detterman, 1973, p. 10, 11; MacKevett, 1969, In contrast, on the mainland of British Columbia,
1971; Richter and Jones, 1973). Such comparisons (fig. beds of Tithonian Age locally pass conformably down
24) aid greatly in determining the time, duration, and ward into beds of Kimmeridgian and Oxfordian Age (Je
geographic extent of major events in the Pacific Coast letzky and Tip, 1968) and occur at many places through
region during Jurassic time. out the central and southern part of the province as far
These sequences show that the Jurassic beds of Brit east as westernmost Alberta (Frebold and Tipper, 1970,
ish Columbia resemble those of southern Alaska in many p. 15). Evidently, in latest Jurassic time, marine waters
respects. First, they contain essentially the same succes spread much farther east in British Columbia and ap
sion of ammonites and buchias. Second, they contain parently also in Washington than in areas to the south.
enormous amounts of volcanic sedimentary rocks of Si- This eastward spread is related to the presence of certain
nemurian to middle Callovian Age but generally only mi major structural features (Jeletzky, 1970; Jeletzky and
nor amounts of volcanic sedimentary rocks of older and Tipper, 1968, p. 3-5, 71^83, fig. 7 on p. 76). These fea
younger Jurassic age. Third, they include unconformities tures include several southeast trending sedimentary
of early Bajocian, late Bathonian, and late Callovian troughs separated by land areas (TippeV and Richards,
Age. Fourth, the early Bajocian unconformity coincides 1976, p. 8, 41). Presumably, the sea that occupied these
in time with igneous intrusions, as in parts of southern troughs once extended eastward to the sea that occupied
Alaska (Detterman and Hartsock, 1966, p. 63, 64, 69, 71; the western interior region from early Bajocian to late
Grantz and others, 1963, p. B58). Fifth, an unconformity Oxfordian or early Kimmeridgian time.
of possible late Oxfordian to latest Tithonian Age in Brit
ish Columbia coincides partly in time with an unconform
ity at the top of the Jurassic in the Cook Inlet region in WESTERN INTERIOR REGION OF THE UNITED STATES
southern Alaska (Imlay and Detterman, 1973, p. 10, 11,
15, 16). Sixth, granitic intrusions that cut lower Oxford
ian rocks in the Harrison Lake area of British Columbia MONTANA AND NORTH DAKOTA
could be of the same age as a granodiorite intrusion in
Alaska's Wrangell Mountains (Imlay and Detterman, Marine Jurassic beds in Montana and North Dakota
1973, p. 11). (fig. 25) are of early or middle Bajocian to late Oxfordian
The Jurassic sequences in British Columbia are like Age (Reeside, 1919; Crickmay, 1936; Imlay, 1948, 1953a,
wise similar to those to the south in certain respects. Se 1954, 1962b, 1967b; J. A. Peterson, 1954a, 1954b; Swain
quences in these two areas have the same general succes and Peterson, 1951, 1952; Loeblich and Tappan, 1950a,
sion of ammonites and of species of Buchia, enormous 1950b; Carlson, 1968, p. 1973-1979; Schmitt, 1953).
amounts of volcanic material, granitic intrusions younger They rest unconformably on beds of Mississippian to
than early Oxfordian and possibly of Tithonian Age, and Triassic age (Imlay, Gardner, and others, 1948; McKee
unconformities, or disconformities, of earliest Bajocian, and others, 1956; J. A. Peterson, 1972, p. 186); and are
Bathonian, late Callovian, and locally of late Kimmeridg- overlain gradationally by the continental Morrison For
ian to Tithonian Age. mation of Kimmeridgian to possible early Tithonian
The Jurassic sequences in the westernmost conter (Portlandian) Age (Yen, 1952; Peck, 1956; Mitchell, 1956).
minous United States differ from those in British Colum The Morrison Formation thins northward, disappears
bia in several respects. Faunally, they lack the pelecypod near the Canadian border, and is overlain unconforma
Buchia mosquensis (von Buch) except in northwestern bly by the Kootenai Formation of Aptian and possibly
Washington; lack ammonites of Bathonian Age except in also Neocomian Age (Cobban and Reeside, 1952, p. 1016;
eastern Oregon; lack the Callovian ammonite Cadoceras; McGookey and others, 1972, p. 192, 193, 195).
contain the ammonites Macrocephalites and Peltoceras The Nesson Formation is the oldest known Jurassic
of earliest and latest Callovian Age, respectively; and formation in Montana and North Dakota. It occurs only
contain ammonites of Tethyan affinities in beds younger in the subsurface of the Williston basin between central
than early Oxfordian. Lithologically, they contain much Montana and central North Dakota and consists of three
greater thicknesses of volcanic beds of Callovian Age and lithologically distinct members (Nordquist, 1955, p. 104-
much more volcanic material in beds younger than Cal 106; Rayl, 1956, p. 36-38). The oldest, the Poe Evapor-
lovian. Orogenically, they include a widespread uncon ite Member, averages about 120 feet (36 m) in thickness
formity of early Pliensbachian Age that is not recognized and consists of massive salt or gypsum overlain by in-
in British Columbia except possibly in the western part terbedded gypsum, dark-red shale and some beds of
2 3 A
1CD
Stage
Rocky Mountains of
southwestern Alberta
and southeastern
Swift Reservoir-
Rierdon Gulch-Sun River
sections, northwestern
Southwest c fCraig
2V2 miles, in
west-central Montana
Smith River
north bank, 22 miles
south of Great Falls,
^ Belt Creek
24 miles southeast
of Great Falls,
^ Soiithwest of Utica °
3 m lies, on north side
ofJ udith River,
British Columbia Montana Mont. Mont. cer tral Montana
Overlying beds Lower Cretaceous L<>wer Cretaceous Lower Crataceous Lower Cretaceous*^j* Low) r Cretaceous I L ower Crataceous
v~ 'vrO-^"Mr^<~
T
^V
Kootenay Formation
(lower part)
1 Mostly nonmarine
sandstone. Some coal
^^ -•^.s-
Passage beds
Tithonian 100-230 ft M arrison Formation Morrison Fc>rmatk>n Morrison Formatio n Morri son Formation M arrison Formation
(30-68 m) M ostly green to Varicolored beds. Varicolored beds. 180ft (55 m) Co aly beds at top.
CD Upper part: ay shale. Coaly at top> Coaly at top Uppe 120 ft bears Va ricolored beds
Sandstone and >me sandstone coal, (carbonaceous be ow
.2 an d fresh-water shale, siltstone.and
CO shale, gray to
£ brown. Becomes linlestone sandstone,
sandier toward Lower part bears
top varico lored shale
and s< jme silty
1 limest one
I
Kimmaridgian Lower part:
Mostly dark
gray shale.
_l
Some thin beds
of sandstone Swi ft Formation Swift Format ion Swift Formation Swift F ormation Sw ft Formation
106--135 ft (32-41 m) 110 ft (33 m) 72 ft (22 m) 82 ft (2 5m) 60 ft(18m)
I •> San dstone overlying Sandstone, j lauconitic, Sandstone and Sands! one, thin-to San dstone, thick-to
silty shale. Pebbly above sandy shale. conglomerate. Pebb les thick-b edded. thin -bedded,
CD
Gr< sen b eds and glauconitic basally Conglomarai e basally .fill'ufeepôles^^ Congk>merate basally Cor glomerate basally
^^•L^^^-^l/'^'^
5-< >6ft
Oxfordian
1 (1. 5-20 Tl)
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sheale, s list ane,
ami san dst<>ne
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11&-140 ft (36-43 m)
CO
CD Sandstone andl Sha le and shaly to erdon Formation \
coqu na 4 ft J thin -bedded limestone I s hale, gray 3 ft \
Bathonian
Shale, gray, ormation Siltstone^\l I Limestc ne,sandy Sawtooth Formatkm c Lirnestone, sandy, c
silty. Some Limestone, sandy
<B— sandstone 1-61 and silty
m) Âl - c to s Ity, partly 57 ft (32 m) .2 th n-bedded, o to shaly, gray.
limestone, yellow? •« .2 oolitic Limestone, sandy. to_ pe bbly. '•§ 20 ft (6 m)
-~y EE 23 ft (7m)
100 ft (30m) 25-58 ft (7.5m o« 45ft(VI m) Pebbly at base Ef
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Dark shale and
basal sandstone, s
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and Mrnestone
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Limestone at base
1 shale, gypsum, ,_ —
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sidentified \ Thins south J 35 ft ( Om) o. sor ne limestone. g^^ 15 ft (4.5 m)
1 1
0 18-132ft f* ^ s-- s- ^/ -^S'-^-^Y' £% Pet>bly at base £& Green to red
ft (22m) y. shale 12 ft /
Roc k Creek (3.5-m J
iber 40-215 ft ^
_CD
iHF 63m) Shale /
Bajocian \ \ ^ ^ \
Locally preaent
'E
CD
CO
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\ Not
identified
\
\
CD
a Poker Chip Shale
a
100 ft (30m)
Toarcian Paper shale
overlain in
CD
places by
platy sandstone
.2 Red Deer Metnbec

M 25ft (7.5 nn)
2 I Shall
^••^j, pla
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Underlying beds Pale ozoic \1 rias sic Mississippian Pennsyl vanian Mississippian ssissippian Pennsylvanian
'Piper Formation divided into (ascending): Tampico Shale Member (Bajocian), Firemoon Limestone Wesson Formation of Ncxdquist (1955) with Nordquefs three members (ascending), Poe Evaporite
Member (Bajocian), and Bowes Member (Bathonian) of Nordquist (1955), all herein adopted for Member, Picard Shale Member, and Kline Member, herein adopted for U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Geological Survey usage. usage.
A. Southwestern Alberta to central Montana.

Big Snowy Mountains ' North side Button Butte, 8 Porcupine Dome, ° Northeast Montana and Southwestern ' ' Characteristic fossils
near Heath and Piper, sec. 18, T. 14N., R. 24 E., sec. 26, T. 10 N., R. 39 E., northwestern North Dakota, Saskatchewan, in in western interior of
7 miles southeast of 32 miles east of 50 miles west-northwest in subsurface subsurface United States
Lewistown, Mont . Lewistown, Mont. of Miles City, Mont.
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? s~** /- ^/ ? •N. /-*

^x^ s_A ,'X, Sw/ s. /~s s~ •^•O 'V. /-*. ^"^
Me rris on For mat ion Mo rris on Forrnat ion Mo rris on :or •nat ion \
22()ft (67 m) 22C)ft 61 m) 155 ft( 47 m)
Me stly va r co lor<3d Var ico oreds tale Sh,ile, gra y9 5ft \
sh ale.
So me fjra V te>bi ff
anc th n b eds
Of! ;an rlstc ne
Sh,ile, var col ore d3()ft.
Lim est one 30 ft V,
sattdst onesbeKJS.
1Mor rise n
•s,
Co alb eds at top
rorrnat on
^\
Fre shvvatcsrli mesitor e ^\
at >as e \/ar cok)rec
s ha e
^\
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S wifitFo rm rtio n Svvift Format ion Sv/ift :or •nat ion ^^\
*^-~
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1 16 ft (3 5rr )
S anc sto ne, sheily 0
10 3ft (31 m)
M ostl y ssind itor e,
18 5ft (57 m)
Sa ndston e,g lau con itic S win- Fo rma tio 1
-^<. Buchia concentrica
nned um •be dde d, th n-t 3 m edi jm- Mas efie Id
lau x>n tic.
X
t b,ise 6ft of san dy,
beddeid.
Sc me sa idy sh lie
§r ay6 5ft
il tsto ne, saridst one ,
an dsc>me sh ale
2 10 ft(&t m
S Itst one an d
s and storie, im^f,
I
>hal e
1 75-300 (W k91 m
( 3ree nis h-g ray, lov ver
Cardioceras spp.
p«bb lyl ime sto ne
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12 Dft 9 auc»n tc,
o verl yin 3srtale 1 sa rt cal :are (OU 5.
Jrf" «
Cardioceras cordiforme
^s^ N_
a ndl ime sto ne LJpp«srp art 36Com
! and ys out hwi ird| Scarburgiceras and
s~- ^s v^ "V. ^ -\^s~ Pavloviceras
s~^ ^~ s?- -^<<-x.x" W
(L
ShaunGraVavonoauupard
^
~s •?/ r Quenstedtoceras collieri
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Rierd on Forimat ion me rao ^P jrrr atk n
•LXw •~s /-*
P iercion Fo rma tier1 Ftier don Foirma tio 1 132 -37 Oft (40 -11 2m) Kepplerfces maclearni Gryphaea
90ft (27 m) •/^x. ^ 2 05 t(6 2rr)) i 0-3 50 ft(1 5-1 05 m)
Limestorie, san dy 2ft. Rieirdc nF orrrtat! an < iha e,9 ray , m ost She le, lim /-g ray nebras-
Shale'-, s Ity- san dyj51 ft.
Shales an dli me storie1 8ft.
27 ft 8rti)s
-^ \>^
hale
s-^ s^ ^/
>
L ime5tO ne, oo rtic
9 5ft thi n-b 3dd ed.
S hal e-g ray 12 3ft
r my at top
peb ble sbiisal iy.
Upf)er pan be connes
K. aff. AC. tychonis
K. subitus censis
Shalei, S()ft. gra1/K)ft —s san

dv,sou Jjw <jjd ^~^ K. costidensus
L ime sto ne bas ally
~xl X Warrenocerascodyense
.1
Sandstone \
and sandy to
silly shale
S[ ^
(
Formation
Bowes Member1
100 ft (30m)
Bowes Memberl 50 ft
(15 m) Red shale
passes westward into [i
Jpp 3r nnerrme ^S-
?5ft (2C m Sh ale,
:oqilina , Mr Se-
Paracephalites
sawtoothensis
Gryphaea
impressf-
marginata
*? Red shale
«f ton B,s and torie
r
48ft 0 sandy limestone
h
Shale, limestone, c Fir 8m<x>n Lin lest one F remoon Limestone Cower memoer "x. Sohlfces, Parachondroceras,
H ol er1 0-105 ft (30 m) \
dolomite 95 ft Me^~
/*\ mb 55 7m) Memberl 70ft (21 m) Limestone, oolrt c VJ-- and Gryphaea planoconvexa
\^ X. ^ .x"* ^ vLimestone, oolite /
IH
a. CM
Gy psu m 1 7fl
Linrlest onesan ds hale,
? o3*
IS fampicoShele Member1
Shale, gray,
limy. Chert
Megasphaeroceras, Spiroceras,
and Stemmatoceras
'-rWfr
Q.CM 85 ft (26 m) Red shale
Grave 1- pebbles basal ly
pet>bly at bas e65ft bourg Chondroceras cf. C. allani
s~~ *s- -?' and gypsum and Stemmatoceras
Formatior
Possibly absent
Formation'! / Kline Member 2 \ 140ft
Nesson (43m)
145 ft (44m) Sreen shale and
Dolomite. Limestone limestone 90 ft
Picard Shale Member^ W atr 3US :or mat ion (in part
Red shale 40 ft ( 12m) (u ppe r m em ber
eE.vai telV1en
•n j ibe ri!l2 5ft 13 m)
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B. Central Montana to southern Saskatchewan.

FIGURE 25.—CORRELATIONS AND COMPARISONS OF JURASSIC ROCKS IN THE WESTERN INTERIOR REGION FROM
SOUTHWESTERN ALBERTA THROUGH CENTRAL MONTANA TO SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN. Vertical lines indicate that
strata are missing; diagonal lines indicate lack of fossil data; wavy lines indicate unconformity or disconformity. Column numbers refer to
locations shown on figure 20.
Ammon Quad., Idaho/12 Green River Lakes, 15 Red Creek, 16

Red Mountain,ldaho.'3 Lower Slide Lake, ** sec. 29, T. 39 N., R. 108 W.,
Wolverine Canyon, in sees. southwest side, north side, about 16 miles northwest end of Wind River NEVi sec. 7, T. 6 N., R. 3 W.,
Stage 27 and 28, T. 1 N., R. 39 E.; SWVi sec. 33, T. 4 N., R.44 E., northeast of Fremont County, Wyo.
Willow Creek at Big Bend,in Mountains, Sublette County,
sees. 17-20, T. 1 N., R. 40 E. Teton County Jackson, Wyo. Wyo.
Overlying beds Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Creteceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous
Tithonien
Morrisen Formation Morrison Formation

370 ft (112m) Varicolored to gray
Probably absent Varicolored shale. silty shale and
Contact shown Some beds of sandstone sandstone. Changes
as a fault and dense limestone laterally into white
Kimmeridgian by Mansfield sandstone
1952, pi. 1)
Gleuconitic sandstone, Sandstone,green, grey, Redwater Shele Member

Oxford! en Shale,silty.greento gray 148 ft (45 m) Sandstone,
red 50 ft (15m) glauconitic 200 ft (61 m), 100 ft (30 m). Sandstone
Siltstone glauconitic, Some siltstone. Bentonite gleuconite, some
bed at base green, pebbly at bese. limestone, overlying
greenish-gray 23 ft (7 m) 248 ft (63 m) silty to sandy shale
/Stump Sandstone \
/ Shele 65 ft (20 m). M Limestone above
Sendstone 145 ft (44 m) quartzite 53 ft (16 m) Sandstone, silty,
y green 13.5 ft (4m) / 8|
*
Cello vian Preuss Sendstone 1043 ft(318rnT| Preuss Sandstone
Sendstone, red 600 ft (183 mi- 68 ft (21 m) Siltstone, Siltstone, sandy, green
Limestone, sendy 193 ft (59 m). I red, limy, above gray to pink 26.5 ft (8m)
Sandstone, red 250 ft (76 m) siltstone
Giraffe Creek Member Giraffe Creek Member iulett Sandstone
295 ft (90 m)_____ 26 ft (5 m)_______ Shale, gray, limy Shele, limy, grey, Member 20 ft (6 m)
163 ft (50 m) Gryphaea common. Stockede Beaver Shele
Leeds Creek Member Leeds Creek Member 230 ft (70 m)
1145 ft (349m) 471 ft (144m) Member 93 ft (27m)
'VVatton Canyon Member Watton Canyon Member^ Jj 8 Limestone, oolitic Limestone dense to Limestone oolitic and
151 ft (46 m)____ 75 ft (23 m)_____ 57 ft (17m) oolitic 20 ft (6m) sandy shale. 67 ft (21 m)
Bethonian Piper Formation
Boundary Ridge Member BoundaryRidge Member Mostly red siltstone.
187 ft (57 m) Shale, red 54 ft (17m)
36 ft (11 m) Siltstone, Gray, shely limestone Shale, red. Pebbly
Red siltstone above red to green at top. 38 ft (12 m) 40 ft (12m)
silty limestone limestone lens et bese
Rich Member 380 ft Rich Member 208 ft Shely limestone Shele and limestone
(116 m) Limestone, shely (62 m) shely limestone gray. 85 ft (26 m) 33 ft (10.5m)
Sliderock Member 140 ft Sliderock Member Limestone, oolitic, Limestone, massive,
(33 m) Limestone, 69 ft (21 m\ Limestone, medium-bedded to dense, gray, glauconitic
massive at base medium-bedded shaly 21 ft (7 m) 14 ft (4 m)
Bajocian
ypsum Spring Member _,,___... ....
Gypsum Spring Formation Gypsum Spring Formation 254 ft (80m)
430ft?(131 m) 46 ft (14m) 75 ft (23 m)
Limestone, leminated, Red siltstone and shale. Gypsum, dolomitic limestone,
silty, sandy, dense, Gypsum Spring Member Siltstone, red 15ft. and red shele 107 ft.
12 ft (3.5m) Limestone, brecciated 28 ft. Gypsum messes and some Gypsum, massive 114ft-
or vuggy 260 ft. Siltstone, red.soft 3 ft dense limestone Red sand' Siltstone 33 ft-
Siltstone, red 160 Limestone breccia
Toarcian
Pliensbachian
Nugget Sandstone1
1000-1500 ft (305-457 m)
Sinemurien
Nugget Sandstone 1 Nugget Sandstone 1
255-300 ft (78-92 m) 150 ft (46m)
Underlying beds Triessic

'In this author's opinion.
A. Ammon area, Idaho, to Red Creek, Wyo.

18 19 East of Newcastle, 20
Minnekahta area,
21
Southeast of Hyattville Muddy Craek area, Bush Canyon, 2'/2 miles SE'/i sec. 7,T. 45 N.,
3Va miles,in sec. 16, sees. 2 and 11.T. 49 N., R. 60 W., SWVi sec. 23, sees. 11, 33, and 34, Characteristic fossils
T. 49 N., R. 89 W.,
north of Hulett, T. 7S., R. 3 E., Fall River in western
R. 83 W., Johnson County, Crook County, Wyo, T. 43 N., R. 61 W.,
Big Horn County,Wyo. Wyo. Weston County.Wyo. County, S.Dak. interior region
Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous
Morrison Formation Morrison Formation. Morrison Formation Morrison Formation Morrison Formation
180 ft (55m) 185 ft (56m) 100 ft (30m) 110 ft (34m) 65-100 ft (20-30m)
Mostly claystone, Claystone, greenish-gray,
greenish-gray to limy.
Upper part: Thin beds of sandstone Mostly claystone, grayish-red. Many limestone beds.
Gray pebbly sandstone, and siltstone greenish-gray Some beds of limestone A few sandstone beds
brown conglomerate.and interbedded with
carbonaceous shale varicolored claystone and sandstone
Lower part:
Varicolored shale
and brown to gray
sandstone / Windy Hill \
/WindyHill Sandstone Windy Hill Sandstone\ /Sandstone Menrjber\
Member 30 ft (9 m) '
Redwater Shale Mem Redwater SheleMem-
ber 184 ft (56m) ber 175 ft (53 m) tedwater Shale Redwater Shale Mem
Fissile claystone. Mostly silty shale. fRedwater Shale Member
Some sandstone in Member 158 ft (48 m) 160 ft (49 m) ber 174 ft (53 m)
Some sandstone in Mostly gray shale. Mostly grey shale. Some Mostly siltstone and Cardioceras cord/forme
upper 41 ft (13m) upper 13 ft (4m) Some limestone shale.Some limestone
[sandstone and limestone
Scarburgiceras and Pavlovicaras
Pine Butte Member

5ft (1.5m)
Lak Member 42 ft Lak Member 75 ft
(13m) Red siltstone (23 m) Red siltstone
and sandstone and sandstone
HulettSandstone HulettSandstone Hulett Sandstone Hulett Sandstone
Member 27 ft (9 m) Member 62 ft (19m) Member 82 ft (25m) Member 71 ft (22 m)
Stockade Beaver Stockade Beaver Shale Stockade Beaver Shale Stockade Beaver Shale
Shale Member 21 ft Member 23 ft (7 m) Member 90 ft (27m) Member 63 ft"(20 m)
Limestone, oolitic canyon springs ban en 'Chert pebbles in
2 ft (0.6 m) >ne Member 25 ft basal sandstone
Sohlites, Parachondrocaras,
and Gryphaea planoconvexa
Megasphaerocaras.Spiroceras
and Stemmatoceras____
Chondroceras cf. C. alteni
and Stemmatoceras____
Gypsum Spring Formation Gypsum Spring Formation

170 ft (51 m) 106 ft (32m) Gypsum Spring Formation
Red shale, dolomitic Limestone and red shale 6? ft (22 m)
Limestone, chert,and red Aaypsum Spring " \
" " nrr

limestone.and chert above limestone,
above massive gypsum breccia,and gypsum shale overlying massive / Formation 8-12 ft (3.7 m)\
x- gypsum Gypsum, massive
Triassic Triassic Triassic Triassic Triassic
B. Hyattville area in north-central Wyoming to Minnekahta area, South Dakota.

SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO TO SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. Vertical lines indicate that strata are missing; diagonal lines
indicate lack of fossil data; wavy lines indicate unconformity or disconformity. Column numbers refer to locations shown on figure 20.
22 23 24 25 26
Burr Fork, Near Peoa and Oakley, Duchesne River near Hanna, Lake Fork, Whiterocks Canyon,
Stage sees. 21,22,and27,T. 1 N. ; cs.11and14,T. 1 S., R. 5 E. sees. 3, 4, 9, and 10, T. 1 S., sees. 1 and 2, T. 1 N., R.5W., secs.18and19,T.2N., R. 1 E.
R. 2 E., Salt Lake County sec. 1,T. 1 S., R.6E., R. 8 W., Duchesne County, Duchesne County, Utah Uintah County, Utah
Utah Summit County .Utah Utah
Overlying beds Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous
Tithonian
Morrison Formation
Morrison Formation 700 ft (213m)
440 ft (134m) Variegated Sandstone, siltstone,
shale and white Morrison Formation
and shale. Mostly 700 ft (213 m)
sandstone. Some
Kimmeridgian fresh-water limestone §rayish-white.
ome beds variegated.
Some pebbly lenses Morrison Formation
Morrison(?JFormation Gray siltstone, sandstone,
102 ft (31 m) and pebbly beds.
Red beds. Some algal Poorly exposed
limeatone. Conglomerate
at base
?„
Oxfordian Redwater Member
Redwater Member Redwater Member Redwater Member 113 ft (34m) Limestone,
182 ft (65m) 137 ft (45m) 98 ft (30 m) Gray shale. >andy,oolitic, glauconitic
Mostly gray shale. Mostly gray shale. Some Some glauconitic Lower third mostly
Some green sandstone limestone and sandstone sandstone shale. Pebbles at base
Curtis Member 55 ft
Callovian Entrada Sandstone
""PrS JssSSl nJstoni . _ _ - _ endstone PreUss Sanastone reuss Sandstone 240 ft (73 m). Sandstone
1020 ft (311 m). Red, silty. 1196 ft (365m). Red, soft 669 ft (204m). Red, silty, 858 ft (262 m). Red, soft, crossbedded, fine-grained,
Limestone unit near base silty, even-bedded aft. even-bedded iltv. even-bedded red to gray________
Giraffe Creek Member Giraffe Creek Giraffe Creek Member Giraffe Creek Member Siltstone, greenish-gray
200 ft (61 m)_____ Member 82 ft (25 m) 165 ft (50m)_________ 49 ft (15m)________ 76 ft (23 m)_______
Leeds Creek Member Leeds Creek Member Leeds Creek Member Leeds Creek Member Gypsum. Red to. green
1520 ft (464m) 776 ft (237 m) ___ 280 ft (85 m) 114 ft (35m)_____ siltstone. 191 ft (58 m)
'Watton Canyon * Wattpn Canyon Member Watton Canyon \ Watton Canyon Member ' Limestone, shaly at
Bathonian Member 348 ft (107m) 220 ft (69m) Member 104 ft (32 m) 1Q9ft<33 ml_______ base, 17 ft (5 m)
Boundary Ridge Boundary Ridge Membei Boundary Ridge Member Red siltstone. Some
Member 102 ft (31 m) 107 ft (33 m) Limestone, Boundary Ridge Member
68 ft (21 m) Red 30 ft (9 m) Red siltstone sandy limestone
Yellow, silty shaly to sandy. siltstone and yellow, 21 ft (6m)
or oolitic limestone Some redbeds and sandy limestone,
sandy limestone___
Rich Member 391 ft Rich Member 125 ft Rich Member 91 ft Rich Member 109 ft Shaly limestone
(119 m).Shaly limestone (38 m) Shaly limestone 28 m) Shaly Limestone (33 m) Shaly limestone 40 ftJ12 m)
Sliderock Member Sliderock Member Sliderock Member 42 ft Sliderock Member
150ft(46 m) Limestone, 47 ft (14 m) Limestone, 32 ft (10 m) Limestone
medium-bedded, medium-bedded, medium-bedded, sandy
OTtaJ
saQdybsjsally some crgsjbeddi
Bajocian
Gypsum Spring
Member 140 ft (33m)
Siltstone, soft,
reddish-brown Gypsum Spring Member
22 ft (7 m)
Toarcian
Pliensbachian
Nugget Sandstone1 Glen Canyon Sandstone 1 Glen Canyon Sandstone 1 Glen Canyon Sandstone1 Glen Canyon Sandstone 1
830 ft (253 m) 1290 ft (394m) 1200 ft (366m) 1190ft (363m) 970 ft (326m)
Sinemurian
Underlying beds
A. Burr Fork to Whiterocks Canyon, Utah.

Dinosaur Quarry, 27 28 Elk Creek area, SWVi sec
29 31
center WV2 sec.26, T. 4 S., Miller Creek, Frantz
ntz Creek,
Cre Hahns Peek.NEVi sec. 9, Characteristic fossils
R. 23 E., Uintah County, SWVi sec. 27, f. 4 N., 33, T. 1S.,R.84W.;NWVi SEVi sec. 32, T. 4'N., T. 10 N., R. 85 W., in western
Utah (Pipiringos. R. 101 W.,Moffat County, sec. 4, T. 2 S., R. 84 W., R 82 W.,Grand County, Routt County, Colo. interior region
unpublished data) Colo. Routt County, Colo. Colo.
Cretaceous Cretaceous Cretaceous Cretaceous Cretaceous
Morrison Formation
Morrison Formation 267 ft±(81 m)
750 -800 ft (244 m) Morrison Formation
Morrison Formation 380ft±(119m) Variegated claystone
Gray sandstone, 400 ft±( 124m) and freshwater
variegated mudstone, Morrison Formation Variegated mudstone.
Variegated beds Some sandstone and limestone 192 ft (58 m)
shale and sandstone, Sandstone, gray
and some pebbly lenses limestone beds.
75 ft (23 m)
Windy Hill Sandstone Mem; Windy Hill SandstoneN, / Windy Hill Sandstone\/ Windy Hill Sandstone \/ Windy Hill Sandstone \ Buchia concentrica
berSundance Formation Member 8 ft (2.4 I Member 9 ft (2.7 m) Member 1 ft Member
Cardioceras spp.
Redwater Member Redwater Shale Cardioceras cord/forme
125 ft (38m) Member 179 ft (54m) Redwater Shale Mem be
m) Scerburgiceras and Pavtoviceras
Quenstedtoceras collier/
Pine Butte Member > / Pine Birttel?) \ Pine Butte Member
Curtis Member 72 12 ft (3.6m) 62 ft (19 m) Member 28 ft (9 m) 30 ft (9 m)
Entrada Sandstone Lak{?) Member
137 ft (45m) Entrada Sandstone 47 ft (14m)
120 ft (36m) Gray sandstone and Canyon Springa
Crossbedded, white Canyon Springs Sandstone Member
shale.________
Cairoe! Formation Sandstone Member. 60 ft (218 m)
Carmel Formation 188 ft (60m) Massive, Canyon Springs Maasive, gray to Kepplerites maclearni
103 ft (31 m) SOJtOmj, Sandstone Member. Gryphaea
Red beds, soft. pink to gray. Chert pink, fine-grained, K. aff. KTtvchonis nebras-
Chert pebblea basalhy pebbles basal ry. 166 ft (57 m) crossbedded. Chert
Massive, buff to pebbles basal ry. K. subitus censis
pink. Chert pebbles K. costidensus
basal ly Warrenoceras codyens >
Gryphaea
impressi-
Paracephalites marginata
sawtoothensis
Sohlites, Parachondroceras,
and Gryphaea p/anoconvexa
Megesphaeroceras, Spiroceras,
and Stemmatoceras_____
Chondroceras cf. C. allani
and Stemmatoceras___
Glen Canyon Sandstone1 Glen Canyon Sandstone 1

670 ft (204 m) 840 ft (256 m)
Triassic Triassic Triassic Triassic-Permian Triassic
B. Dinosaur Quarry, Utah, to Hahns Peak, Colo.

NORTH-CENTRAL UTAH TO NORTH-CENTRAL COLORADO. Vertical lines indicate that strata are missing; right-diagonal lines
32 33 34 35 36
Monks Hollow, Nepni-Levan area, Gunnison-Salina- Buckhorn Wash area,
Stage sec. 32, T. 4S., R. 5E., and west side of Gunnison Richfield area, south of Cedar Mountain Black Dragon Canyon,
sec. 5, T. 5 S., R. 5 E., Plateau, Juab County, Sevier and Sanpete InT. 19 S., R. 11 E., sec.5and6,T. 22 S., R. 14E.,
Utah County, Utah north-central Utah Counties, Utah Emery County, Utah Emery County, Utah
Tfthonian
Morrison Formation
1240 ft (378 m) Morrison Formation
Variegated shale Morrison ? Formation 750 ft (229 m) Morrison Formation
interbedded with red 848 ft (259 m) Variegated mudstone, 600 ft (183m)
mudstone and sandy Interbedded, gray to siltstone,and sandstone Variegated mudstone
shale and red to gray white conglomerate siltstone and sandstone-
sandstone and sandstone and Becomes less sandy upward
Kimmeridgian red to gray shale Locally some thin Massive gypsum at base
beds of limestone
Some conglomeratic
sandstone at top
Oxfordian
Light brownsiltetone^X
ome gray sandstone and \
shale 250 ft(76m)
Callovian
Preuss Sandstone _..-_oa Sandstone Entrada Sandstone
1270 ft (387m). Brown 187 ft n«« ml
1874 425 ft (129 m). Red, earthy 405 ft (123m). Red.earthy
even-bedded sandstone sandstone and siltstone to arav.and crossbedded
Sandstone, shale, and Twelvemile Canyon
Giraffe Creek Member limestone 1500 ft (457m) Variegated shale and
288 ft (88 ml______ Member 1600-2700 ft
Red shale and limestone (823 m). Red to gray sandstone. Some Sandstone, siltstone,
Leeds Creek Member 800 ft (228 m) shale. Sa[t at top gypsum.182 ft (56 m) .S and shale, red
275 ft (84 m) Limestone, gray 800 ft « 125 ft (38 m)
r Watton Canyon " "gKLimestone, medium? Sandstone and
Member 305 ft (93 m) bedded. 100 ft (30 m) limestone. 29 ft (9m) II
Bathonian
F
Boundary Ridge Limestone, sandy to Sandy shale and Sandstone, shaly to
Member 57 ft (17 m) thin-bedded.and
h
oolitic, yellow sandstone, gray,
Red siltstone above Some red siltstone. ripple-marked mudstone, gray to
silty-sandy limestone 100 ft (30m) 47 ft (14) red. Some limestone.
105 ft (32 m)
Rich Member 123 ft Limestone, shaly Limestone, sandy and
(37 m) Limestone, shalv 10&-?flDft<fi1 ml sandstone. 66 ft (20 m)
' 5 Sliderock Member 91 ft Limestone, medium- Page Sandstone Page Sandstone
1 e (28 m). Limestone, thick-bedded, sandy, 100 ft (31 m) Massive, 30-35 ft (11 m). Massive,
og thin to medium-bedded,! oolitic, 50-80 ft crossbedded, gray. Chert crossbedded, gray. Chert
'15-24. ' lies at base pebbles at^base
Bajocian
Gypsum Spring
Member 49 ft (15m)
Red to green siltstone
and brecciated or Siltstone, redVJ
laminated limestone soft 1-10 ft {3 mi
Toarcian
Nugget Sandstone 1
100 ft (30m) Navajo Sendstone 1 Navajo Sandstone
bands 1
incomplete 380 ft (116m) 520 ft (159m)
Keyenta Formation'' Kayenta Formation 1

Nugget sandstone 1 190 ft (88 m) 240 ft (103 m)
1450 ft (442m)
Wingate Sandstone 1 Wingate Sandstone 1

320 ft (98 m) 323 ft (99 m)
Underlying beds Triassic Triassic

A. Monks Hollow to Black Dragon Canyon, Utah.

37 38 Valley of John Brown Cree Slick Rock area, 40 41
San Rafael River, Dewey Bridge, sees. 13, 25, 32 and, 36, McElmo Canyon area7 Characteristic fossils
sec. 8, T. 23 S., R. 24 E., sees. 31 and 32, T. 51 N., sec. 26, T. 36 N., R. 18 W.,
sees. 4,9, and 18, R. 19 W., and sec. 5, T. 44 N., R. 19 W., and in western
T. 24 S., R 16 E., Grand County,Utah sec. 30, T. 44 N., R.18W., Montezuma County, interior region
T. SON., R. 19 W., Colo.
Emery County, Utah Mesa County, Colo. San Miquel County, Colo.
Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous
Brushy Basin Shale

Brushy Basin Shale Brushy Basin Shale Member
Morrison Formation Member 333ftfl04m) Member 150-300 ft (91 m)
650ft±(201 m) Mostly siltstone 350ft(110m)
and claystone, Variegated
Morrison Formation Upper part: soft, bentonrtic, .2 Westwater Canyon
600 ft±(183 m) bentonrtic Sandstone Member
Variegated silty to and variegated « mudstone
Variegated shale, limy shale. Some 72-200 ft (61 m)
siltstone, and sandstone. §5
Some conglomerate. thin dense limestone o£L
and chert pebble c*
Locally gypsum and (or)
limestone at base
conglomerates.
Salt Wash Sandstone
Member 337ft(l03m) I Salt Wash Sandstone
.88
Recapture Shale
Member
Sandstone- tedgy Member 300 ft(91 m) 0-200 ft (61 m)
Lower part: brown.to pink, Interbedded
sandstone
b£
White to gray cross- interbedded with
bedded sandstone and soft siltstone and mudstone, Salt Wash Sandstone
red to gray claystone. and claystone gray to brown Member
0-200 ft (61 m) Buchia concentrica
Contact locally
Contact gradat tonal disconformable and
at most places locally gradatkmal
Summervilte Formation^
82 ft (25 m) N
Curtis Formation 75 ft Sandstone 31 ft Slick Rock Member
Slick Rock Member 70-80 ft (24 m)
^fraSaSarlSstone^^""^
435 ft (133 m). Tan, cross- Slick Rock Member
225 ft (69m)
Massive sandstone, s Slick Rock Member
103 ft (31 m)
Sandstone, pink
brown, white
bedded. Some earthy
Red silty sandstone,
273 ft (83 m)
Dewey BridgeMember
white to orange
Dewey Bridge
is Massive sandstone
Dewey Bridge
crossbedded
DeweyBridgeMembet Kepplerites maclearni
54 ft (16m) Member 56ft U 7m) Member 32 ft (10 m) 30 ft (9 m)
sand,shale,and K. aff. AC. tychonis Gryphaea
mudstone. Some Chert pebbles basal ly ;hert pebbles basally nebras-
.S gypsum 71 ft (22 m) K. subitus
E cansis
K. costidensus
Narreno csras codyense
Sandstone, red to Gryphaea
gray, thin-bedded. Paracephalkes impressi-
Some limestone. sawtoothensis marginata
Chert pebbles locally
at base. 58 ft (18m)
Sohlites, Parachondrocaras,
and Gryphaea planoconvexa
Page Sandstone 5-10 ft Megasphaeroceras, Spirocaras,
Chert pebbles at base and Stemmatoceras______
Chondroceras cf. C. allani
and Stemmatoceras
Navajo Sandstone 1 Navajo Sandstone1 Navajo Sandstone'1 Navajo Sandstone 1 Navajo Sandstone 1
100 ft (30 m) 215 ft (66m) 0-500 ft (153m) 0-420 ft (128m) 300 ft (91 m)
incomplete
Kayenta Formation 1
Kayenta Formation 1 Kayenta Formation 1 Kayenta Formation 1 subsurface only
320 ft (98 m) 180-220 ft (55-70m) 160-300 ft (49-92 m) 30 ft (9m)
Not exposed Wing ate Sandst one 1 Wingate Sandstone1 Wingate Sandstone1 Wingate Sandstone1
300 ft (91 m) 280-300 ft (86-91 m) 275 ft (84 m) 775-790 ft (236-241 m)
B. San Rafael River, Utah, to McElmo Canyon, Colo.

NORTH-CENTRAL UTAH TO SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO. Vertical lines indicate that strata are missing; right-diagonal lines
Gunlock, 42 Danish Ranch, 43 Kanarraville- AA Mount Carmel Junction, 45 46
to Cedar City, sees. 7
'i<o Stage
near center sec. 32, NEV4 sec. 34, T. 40 S., sees. 12, 13, 24,and25, Brown Canyon ,
T. 40 S., R. 17 W., R. 1 4 W., Washington and 18, T. 38 S., R. 11 W; T. 41 S., R. 8W., sees. 7,1 9, and 21, T.. 41 S.,
(fl Washington County, Utah County, Utah sees. 11 and 14, T. 37 S., Kane County, Utah R. 5 W., Kane County ,Utah
R. 11 W., Iron County, Utah
Overlying beds c retsicec)US Cr eta ceo us Creltace ou S (3ret aceous Cr eta<;eo JS
-x.X-NpX- xx N_f\,_X- -Xw^N.x" ^/ \-'~s_x^ '"V.X" ^x •\^ ^v.s^ fc^' S_ /~v s^' ^- x-x X^ s_x- •^ •^x. ~^s
^ ^
T'rthonian
CD
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D
1
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&
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1
Kimmeridgian
a f
D o
D
TT
T3
•O
Oxfordian
S
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D
«
T3
•D
Callovian
S \\
Fomel
.rmation J^~ *~sK^ "V. ^N ^ .<~^ •^k^ "X. /-* V-X^X, x- *s~\^-x, s-*> S*x^
Wi ISO -M em 3er N
280(-32 Oft (85^-98m) Wi ISO rM em Der Win sor M«jmbier
_1
Saridst one an d 18C )ft 55 m) 581 ft( 172 m)
Sa ndsi on B, g ray 50 ft. San dst one ,gr ay att 3P,
(
m)
(ft
/3230
23-375 mu dst jne re ddis h- c Sa nds ton e, r<3d1 30 ft. red att}as e
brc>wn to jale 9r een {
^X"
^
(
P
)FoCarrmmatioeln E /
-^Gypsum and shaly ^ i £ ^Gypsum and ^S ''Gypsum and "X
Bathonian limestone.80-1 40ft(42m) §S limestone 50 ft (16 m) 0 limestone 52 ft (16 m)
Banded member Fo 635 Banded member
armel (1
ft B Banded member
^""c -V s-~* ^x^ 155-225 ft (47-69 m) 170 ft (52 m) 45 ft (44 m)
'i Red silt sto ne and Siltstone and sandstone, Sandstone and siltstone, § Sandstone and siltstone.
» <
JurMidassidlec san dstc>ne 40 ft(1 2m) red. Some gypsum gray to redSome gypsum Some gypsum
^x^"1"X. x> _X- ^x •N- s~\ £ .im est(}ne me•mb er <oT Lirrtest one• m 3m t>er L mesto ne rtiernbe r
oi Li me storie nfierribe
&a Ca meIFo rmsitio n61 Oft(186 m) £> 627 ft( 191 m) 8 5<Mft(1 36 nn) 23E ft 72 m). Me stlv 1 68 ft(5 2m )
H C CÎCd
Sh ale, red to gray13 5ft Sha le-l mesto ie 1 10ft 0
Iflin- bed ded to sha ftV'. ool itic lim estc>ne Re d R ed iiltsIon eir
D Lirrlest ones, o aliti c6()ft ^\
s ity- or ool tic 483
I
Sha le, jra^f-pi nk! 23ft
~
petibly sh ale atb ase r2C>ft
CCCCt
Lirrtest one' an ds halts35 1 ft .im estc>ne- shs le:!53ft G /ps um ancisa ndstone, ^
a> Sa ids'ton s. s Ity, rec 64 ft. Silt!•ton e, r ed 141
t
< rt jrjtt ba get!^xi>
N^ r^ ^1
£CQWP0 PCC K
T3 ^/[^ ^
Bajocian
C
T3
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i k x>
Ternpl eC ap!San dst<}ne
372>ft (11 3m )
Ternpl eC
13 7ft (4 ^ jan dstc>ne
. '1
T em pie Ca 3 S and stor ie
2 (M 1 fl (6- -12 m)
ed disf>-br owri, e yen
Peniplc Ca p s ancIsto ne
125 ft( 38 •n). Mo stly
Ter npl ;C£ p£ >an dstc >ne
35 ft(1 1 rr i). I -igh *g ay,
cro ssb edd ed 7ft
:0
jra /, 0ros ibadde d. F ed
/
y
o Pin Pin k, s ilty, sha ly,e veri-bedded
k, e ver -be ddc d, iilty f >ed(led , gr rtty att>ase / silt y b 3ds int)asi9)1 5ft sil ty tc>sh aly 28 ft
So me mu dst one an ig^fps jm X-* vX- ~s- x^ ^~v._x- ^x x_ rx, ~/-* +*s x^ -x.f>~\
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•k^- •N. x~s /• L>k^ *x. s^ ^- ^x. ^^ s~ ^ \x '^. ^> x'
Toarcian
-x. x-s ^ •N- "S, *^ ^•O •N- '-xx
0 N ava jo!Ban dst<}ne 1 N avaio£>an dstcme Ne va oS andsto ne1 ^ avi)JO San dst 3ne 1
2 200 ft( 671 m) 2 100 ft( 340 TT1) 17 00 ft (5 18 Tl) fSlav ajo Sar dst one 1
2 100 ft( 640 m) 90C ft 58C m
&
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D t
O
Pliensbachian Kayenta Formation 1 Kayenta Formation 1 Kayenta Formation 1

1D Kayenta Formation 1 Kayenta Formation''
1000 ft (305 m) 1000 ft (305m) 1175 ft (3 58 m)
—i
715 ft (2 8m) 270 ft (82 m)
o5
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D
Sinemurian M oen ave Fo rrruitio r.1 M<>en JVC For ma tion 1 Me enave For mat ion 1 M oen ave Fo rma tior!l \loenav B Form atic n1
25 Oft (76 m 35 5ft daBm) 51()ft(15 5m ) 60 Oft (18Orr») 450ft{1 37m)
rr
_i
HI H
'X_ .-X Y~ '~x •NWX •v. -•- -•^/v.-^Y^1N «/'S_ "NI.X* ^^ Y^ x-s
^^-^'X.,~xY^ X, T/T*"/ x_ Y^
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Underlying beds
•\^ •K...-•-x,x->^"k^
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•X.
/ *•_/"N. /^s.^v/^^^•^N. •^-K>-VX^V-X^N.
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A. Gunlock to Brown Canyon, Utah.

Little Bull Valley, 47 Pine Creek/ 43 Sand Valley, 49 Page, 50 Big Hoi low Wash, 51 Cow Springs, 52
sees. 27 and 38,T. 38 S., SWVi sec. 29 and SE% sees. 30 and 34, T. 42 N.
SWVi sec. 19,1.41 N., sees. 7, 11,and12,T. 39 S., 4 miles east of
R. 3 W., 8 miles sec. 30, T. 34 S., R. 3 E., R. 7 E., 13 miles R. 6 E., and sec. 9, trading post
R. 9 E., Stage
southwest of Cannonville, 3 mi. north of Escalante, northwest of Page.
Coconino County, Ariz. T. 39 S., R. 7 E., Coconino County Ariz
Kane County, Utah Garfield County, Utah Coconino County, Ariz. Kane County, Utah
Cretaceous Lower Cretaceous Cretaceous Lower ? Cretaceous Lower ? Cretaceous Cretaceous
Tithonian
Upper member
116 ft (35m)
Salt Wash
to Sandstone Member Morrison Formation Ommeridgian
182 ft (56 m) Salt Wash
§_ 149ft. Sandstone,
Sandstone, gray to green. Sandstone
"eg crossbedded, Member 363 ft
pebbly______ Pebble lenses
o£ (111 m)
.2^ Lower
offl
member 140 ft Lower member
5 00
CM Sandstone.flat- 10 ft (3m)
bedded
Oxfordian
Sandstone at Romana J andstone at Romana

Mesa 115 ft (35m) Mesa 44 ft (13m)
(314 m). Crossbedded, Callovian
white 228ft.Flat-bedded, ' Entrada Sandstone \ Entrada Sandstone Entrada Sandstone / Entrada Sandstone \
Inti
/Entrada Sandstone \ shaly 445ft (135m). Gray, 640 ft (195m). White to 830 ft (253 m). Upper 773 ft (235 m)
493ft(150m)Flat-bedded thick beds 434 ft.Flat,
369 ft mostly crossbedded red, mostly crossbedded 537 ft flat-bedded Mostly crossbedded
Winsor Member Carmel Formation Carmel Formation Carmel Formation Carmel Formation Carmel Formation
673 ft (205 m). Mostly upper member, 372 ft jpper member 433 ft upper member 255 ft 205 ft (61 m) upper member
sandstone-siltstone. (134m). Gypsum and 137 m). Flat-bedded red (77 m). Sandstone and 188 ft (59m)
16 ft of limestone red to gray, silty shale and sandstone 166 ft siltstone.flat-bedded Sandstone and mudstone,
155 ft above base sandstone 278ft. >ossbedded sandstone to crossbedded, pink reddish-brown to gray.
jypsum and , Limestone, gray 94 ft 53ft.Same as top unit 214ft to gray Chert pebbles at base
imestone 45 ft(14 mj Bathonian
. Tongue of Page / Thousand Pockets Tongue Thousand Pockets Tongue
\ Sandstone / of Page Sandstone of Page Sandstone Page Sandstone Page Sandstone
\25ft
.25 ft (8m) / 72 ft (22 m). Red to gray, 104 ft (31 m). Light 183 ft (56 m) 84 ft (25m)
Banded member flat-to cross-bedded gray, crossbedded Crossbedded, orange to Crossbedded
V46ft(14m) , Judd Hollow Tongue of Judd Hollow Tongue brownish-red. Pebbly
Limestone member Carmel Formation of Carmel Formation . at base
138 ft (42m) Basal iv 74 ft (23 m). Sandstone,/ V 40 ft (12m) _____/
: 8 ft is red shale \shale.
sha some limestone/ Harris Wash Tongue of
Hai
Harris Wash Tongue of |e Sandstone 62 ft /
Page Sandstone 15 ft H9m).Crossbedded
\ Cross-bedded. Chert Bajocian
\pebblejatl ase
Toarcian
Navajo Sandstone1 Navajo Sandstone1 Navajo Sandstone1 Navajo Sandstone1 Navajo Sandstone Navajo Sandstone 1
1400 ft (427 m) 1250 ft (384m) 1650 ft (500m) 1600 ft (486 m) 1165 ft (355m) 1150 ft (350m)
Pliensbachian
Kayenta Formation 1 Kayenta Formation 1 Kayenta Formation 1 Kayenta Formation 1 Kayenta Formation 1 Kayenta Formation 1
370 ft (113m) 370 ft (113m) 165 ft (50m) 170 ft (51 m) 350 ft (107 m) 300 ft (92 m)
Moenave^
Moenave Formation 1 Wingate Sandstone1 Moenave Formation 1 Moenave Formation 1 Wingate Sandstone1 Formation 1/ Windgate
480 ft (146m) 160 ft (49m) 400 ft (122m) 350 ft (107 m) 290 ft (89 m) Sinemurian
250 ft / Sandstone1
(76m) \ 50 ft (15m)
B. Little Bull Valley, Utah, to Cow Springs, Ariz.
SOUTHWESTERN UTAH TO NORTHEASTERN ARIZONA. Vertical lines indicate that strata are missing; wavy lines indicate
unconformity or disconformity; jagged lines indicate gradational or indefinite contact. Column numbers refer to locations shown on figure
20.
dense dolomite. It is overlain gradationally by the Picard the Gypsum Spring Formation northward from the Wind
Shale Member, which is about 40 feet (12 m) thick and River Basin. These studies showed that the limy units in
consists mostly of dark-red shale but contains some gyp the Gypsum Spring Formation are commonly dolomitic,
sum at its base. The Picard is overlain rather sharply by dense, white to light gray, are locally pinkish or green
the Kline Member, which ranges from 80 to 190 feet (24 ish, are nonoolitic, poorly fossiliferous, and contain blocky
to 58 m) in thickness, consists generally of an upper or banded chert in some beds. By contrast, the limy units
dense dolomitic unit and a thicker lower limestone unit in the Piper Formation are shaly to thin-bedded, com
that locally is oolitic, and also contains some beds of fine monly oolitic, highly fossiliferous, do not contain chert,
grained sandstone and green to purple shale. The upper and are not dolomitic. Also, the base of the Piper For
contact of the Kline with the Piper Formation is sharp mation at some localities contains small chert pebbles
but concordant. The possibility of a disconformity at the that are lithologically identical with the bedded chert in
top of Kline Member is suggested by the presence of the Gypsum Spring Formation. Such pebbles were noted
chert pebbles at the top of the equivalent lower member along the Pryor Mountains at the head of Gypsum Creek,
of the Gravelbourg Formation in Saskatchewan (Milner at Red Dome, and at Grapevine Creek. Their strati-
and Blakslee, 1958, p. 71; Springer and others, 1966, p. graphic occurrence should not be confused with that of
144; Milner and Thomas, 1954, p. 257). much larger pebbles consisting of both chert and quartz-
The exact age of the Nesson Formation is not known. ite near the top of the limestone member of the Piper
An early Bajocian or older age was suggested by Nord- Formation in the Pryor Mountains (Imlay, 1956a, p. 572-
quist (1955, p. 105) on the basis of stratigraphic position. 574).
An Early Jurassic age was suggested by Pocock (1970, On the basis of the criteria cited, the thicknesses of
p. 15) on the basis of pollen studies of the partially equiv the Piper and the underlying Gypsum Spring Formation
alent lower member of the Gravelbourg Formation in have been determined for the area of the Pryor and Big
southern Saskatchewan. For the same lower member, an horn Mountains (table 1). Evidently, the Gypsum Spring
early to middle Bajocian Age was suggested by Brooke is thinnest along the west side of the Pryor Mountains
and Braun (1972, p. 4). Apparently no evaluation has and thickens eastward from 17 feet (5 m) at Red Dome
been made of the many fossils reported from the Kline to about 150 feet (46 m) at the Montana-Wyoming State
Member by Nordquist (1955, p. 105). The possibility ex line on both sides of the Bighorn Mountains. Also, the
ists that the subsurface Kline Member of the Nesson Piper Formation is thickest on the west side of the Pryor
Formation and the overlying Firemoon Limestone and Mountains and thins eastward from 163 feet (50 m) at
Tampico Shale Members of the Piper Formation are the Red Dome to about 55 feet (17 m) at the State line north
expanded basinward subsurface equivalents of the out of Cowley, Wyo., and to about 40 feet (12 m) at Lodge
cropping middle member of Piper Formation in the Big Grass Creek, near the State line on the east side of the
Snowy Mountains, as proposed by J. A. Peterson (1957, Bighorn Mountains.
p. 435). It is more probable, however, that the Nesson Lithologically, the thickest sequences of the Gypsum
Formation is the time equivalent of the Gypsum Spring Spring Formation in the Pryor Mountains greatly resem
Formation of northern Wyoming (fig. 26), as originally ble sequences typical of that formation in the Wind River
defined by Love (1939, p. 42, 45; Love and others, 1945) Basin. At the base is a unit of massive gypsum and some
and as proposed by Francis (1956, p. 22-26, 46, fig. 4). red siltstone, or a unit of red siltstone that contains brec-
Correlation of the subsurface Nesson Formation with ciated beds. Above this unit is one of soft red claystone.
the Gypsum Spring Formation rather than with parts of At the top is a unit consisting of interbedded gray lime
the surface Piper Formation is favored by the greater stone, white to light-gray dolomitic limestone, and some
stratigraphic and lithologic resemblances of members of varicolored claystone. As the formation thins toward the
the Nesson to the successive units of the Gypsum Spring west in the Pryor Mountains, the upper units disappear
Formation and by the fact that the upper limestone from the top downwards so that only the basal gypsifer-
member of the Nesson Formation is more dolomitic and ous unit is present along the west side of the mountains.
much less fossiliferous than the middle limestone mem Evidently, the Gypsum Spring Formation was truncated
ber of the Piper Formation. Also, the Gypsum Spring by erosion before the Piper Formation was deposited.
Formation extends northward into Montana unconform- Similarly, the thickest sequences of the Piper For
ably beneath the Piper Formation along the flanks and mation in the Pryor Mountains contain all the units typi
northern ends of the Pryor and Bighorn Mountains. cal of the Piper elsewhere in Montana. For example, at
Recognition of the presence of the Gypsum Spring Red Dome in Carbon County, Mont., the formation con
Formation beneath the Piper Formation was made pos sists of a basal red claystone about 24 feet (7 m) thick,
sible by joint field studies in 1964 and 1971 by G. N. Pi- overlain by interbedded, fossiliferous gray shale and
piringos and the writer, who traced typical exposures of limestone about 60 feet (18 m) thick, which is overlain by
TABLE 1.—Thickness of the Piper and underlying Gypsum TABLE 1.—Thickness of the Piper and underlying Gypsum
Spring Formations in parts of north-central Wyoming and Spring Formations in parts of north-central Wyoming and
south-central Montana south-central Montana—Continued
[B, indicates the presence of breccia instead of massive gypsum] Piper Gypsum
Location Formation Spring Formation
Piper Gypsum
Location Formation Spring Formation Thickness Thickness
Feet Meters Feet Meters
Thickness Thickness
Feet Meters Feet Meters 23 Shoshone Canyon 2 mi west
of Cody, NE-1/4 sec. 4, T. 52
1 Lodge Grass Creek, sec. 8, T. 9 N., R. 102 W., Park County,
S., R. 33 E., Big Horn County, Wyo————————————————-———196(B) 59.7 0 0
Mont ——————————————————— 43 13.1 (B) 120 (B) 36.6 24 Six miles south of Cody along
2 Grapevine Creek, center sec. 6, line between sees. 5 and 6, T.
T. 6 S., R. 31 E., Big Horn 51 N., R. 101 W., Park County,
6.1 130 39.6 Wyo————————————————————277 84.4 0 0
3 Shively Dome, west-central part 25 Red Creek, SE-1/4 sec. 6, T. 6
sec. 23, T. 5 S. , R. 27 E., Big N., R. 3 W., Fremont County,
20.1 (B) 53 (B) 16.2 Wyo———————————————————— 40 12.2 220 67.1
4 Fivemile Creek, sec. 36 T. 5 26 Mavericks Spring anticline,
S., R. 24 E., Carbon County, sees., 23 and 26, T. 6 N., R. 2
27.4 (B) 46 (B) 14.0 W., Fremont County, Wyo—————— 20 6.1 173? 52.7?
5 Red Dome, west flank, sec. 19, 27 Tributary to East Fork of Sheep
T. 7 S., R. 24 E., Carbon Creek, SW-1/4 sec. 2 to NW-1/4
49.7 17 5.2 sec. 11, T. 6 N., R. 2 E.,
6 South of Bowler 1-1/2 mi, Fremont County, Wyo————————— 10 3.0 165 50.3
sec. 1, T. 8 S., R. 24 E., 28 Bull Lake, SE-1/4 sec. 36, T. 3
29.0 (B) 64 (B) 19.5 N., R. 4 W., Fremont County, Wyo- 9 2.7 196 59.7
7 South side of Pryor Mountains, 29 Sage Creek anticline, SE-1/4 sec.
S-l/2 sec. 14, T. 9 S., R. 26 16, T. IN., R. 1 W., Fremont
27.7 43 13.1 County, Wyo—————————————— 13 4.0 121 36.9
8 East side of Gypsum Creek, 30 Mill Creek, NW-1/4 sec. 5, T. 2
SE-1/4 sec. 33, T. 9 S., R. 27 S., R. 1 W., Fremont County,
19.5 107 32.6 Wyo———————————————————— 12 3.7 212? 64.6?
9 East side of Red Gulch, sec.
22, T. 58 N., R. 89 W., Sheridan
14.0 150 (B)45.7
10 Wolf Creek, NW-1/4 sec. 9, T.
55 N., R. 86 W., Sheridan
1.5 (B) 143 (B)43.6
11 Big Goose Creek, NE-1/4 sec. 2, 77 feet (23 m) of brownish-red claystone and siltstone
T. 54 N., R. 86 W., Sheridan
1.5 (B) 142 (B)43.3
that contains some thin layers of gypsum. As the forma
12 Little Goose Creek, N-l/2 sec. tion thins toward the east, the units disappear from the
36, T. 54 N., R. 85 W.,
18.0 (B) 146 (B)44.5 base upwards, and at the State line east of the Bighorn
13 North side of Sykes Mtn.,
NE-1/4 sec. 12, T. 57 N., R.
Mountains, only the highest redbed unit is present.
95 W., Big Horn County, Wyo ——— 86 26.2 164 50.0 Thus, the Piper Formation overlaps eastward and south
14 Northwest end of Little Sheep
Mtn. NW-1/4 sec. 28, T. 56 N., eastward over the Gypsum Spring Formation.
R. 95 W., Big Horn County, Wyo — 44 13.4 152 46.3 The Piper Formation consists of three members, is
15 Northwest end of Spence Dome,
north-central part sec. 6, T. more widely distributed in the subsurface than is the
54 N., R. 94 W., Big Horn
County, Wyo —————————————— 36 11.0 210 64.0
Nesson Formation, and crops out at many places in
16 Southeast end of Sheep Mtn., north-central, central, and southern Montana. The old
east-central part sec. 16, T.
53 N., R. 93 W., Big Horn est, or Tampico Shale Member (Nordquist, 1955, p. 101),
17 About 7 mi north-northwest
13.4 110 33.5 is about 85 feet (26 m) thick in the subsurface and as
of Shell, south-central sec. much as 100 feet (30.5 m) thick on the surface. It consists
21 and north-central sec. 28,
T. 54 N., R. 91 W., Big Horn mostly of red shale but includes some green to gray shale
18 About 8 mi south of Shell,
10.4 162 49.4 and siltstone, some thin beds of red to white sandstone,
east-central part sec. 3, T. 51 and some gray to brown dolomite and dolomitic lime
N., R. 91 W., Big Horn County,
Wyo —— - ———————————————— 22 6.7 216 65.8
stone, and in places its lower part bears thick masses of
19 About 9 mi north-northwest gypsum (Imlay, Gardner, and others, 1948).
of Hyattville, SW-1/4 sec. 21,
T. 51 N., R. 90 W., Big Horn It is overlain by the middle, or Firemoon Limestone
County, Wyo —————————————— 30
20 2 mi northeast of
9.1 192 58.5 Member (Nordquist, 1955, p. 101), whose thickness av
Hyattville, central sec. 29, T. erages about 75 feet (23 m) in the subsurface and ranges
50 N., R. 89 W., Big Horn
County, Wyo —————————————— 11 3.4 174 53.0 from 15 to more than 100 feet (4.5 to 30.5 m) on the sur
21 1 mi north of mouth of
Clarks Fork Canyon, sec. 5, T
face. It consists mostly of gray shale and limestone,
56 N., R. 103 W., Park County,
\Jvn--------- __ -- -__ _ _ ??1
which may be shaly, oolitic, dense, or dolomitic. Its
68.0 D 0
22 Trail Creek, about 8 mi boundaries with adjoining members are transitional
northwest of Cody, center sec.
12, T. 53 N., R. 103 W., Park
within narrow intervals (Imlay, Gardner, and others,
r.nnntv Ui/n — --- — -----------_---?(¥> fi? R n n 1948b; Sandberg, 1959).
The youngest, or Bowes Member, of the Piper For tooth Formation in southwestern Montana, in the middle
mation (Nordquist, 1955, p. 102) averages about 50 feet limestone member of the Sawtooth Formation in the
(15 m) in thickness in the Williston basin and from 20 to Bearpaw Mountains, and in equivalent limestone beds in
130 feet (6 to 40 m) in thickness in outcrops. It consists the northern part of the Bighorn Basin (Imlay, 1956a,
mostly of red to varicolored shale and siltstone in the p. 567, 568, 577).
subsurface east of the Big Snowy and Bearpaw Moun Dating the middle limestone member of the Piper
tains, as well as on the surface in southern Montana as Formation as latest Bajocian means that the upper mem
far west as the Gallatin Range north of Yellowstone Na ber must be of Bathonian Age and that the lower mem
tional Park. It passes westward and northward in Mon ber must be at least in part of early late Bajocian Age,
tana into yellowish silty to sandy limestone and calcar equivalent to the ammonite-bearing upper part of the
eous sandstone that characterize the upper member of Sliderock Member of the Twin Creek Limestone. This
the Sawtooth Formation in western and north-central dating for these three members holds also for the three
JVtontana. members of the Sawtooth Formation in southwestern
Northward from the Williston basin, the Piper For Montana. However, the basal part of the lower member
mation continues into southern Saskatchewan, where its of the Piper Formation may be as old as the late middle
Tampico Shale Member passes into gray calcareous shale Bajocian (Stephanoceras humphriesianum zone) be
at the top of the Gravelbourg Formation, its Firemoon cause ammonites of that age occur near the base of the
Limestone Member passes into the nearly identical lower Sawtooth Formation (Imlay, 1967b, p. 50, 91-94) in
member of the Shaunavon Formation, and its Bowes northwestern Montana, because the lower part of the
Member passes into shale, limestone, and sandstone in Sliderock Member could be of that age, and because ma
the upper member of the Shaunavon Formation (Chris rine invasion from the west probably took place at about
topher, 1964, p. 16; Brooke and Braun, 1972, p. 4; Milner the same time in eastern Idaho as in western Montana.
and Thomas, 1954, p. 258-262). Nonetheless, it is doubtful whether marine waters older
The middle limestone member of the Piper Forma than latest Bajocian ever crossed the Sweetgrass arch or
tion is dated as late Bajocian because in both the surface Belt Island, because the members of the Sawtooth For
and subsurface in Montana it contains certain mollusks mation thin considerably where they cross the arch (Cob-
(Hearn and others, 1964, p. B8; Imlay, 1967b, p. 33-35) ban, 1945, p. 1271; Weir, 1949, p. 551, 552) and because
that also characterize the upper Bajocian Rich Member the middle member of the Sawtooth Formation on East
of the Twin Creek Limestone (Imlay, 1967b, p. 31, 32). Butte in the Sweet Grass Hills correlates faunally with
These include particularly the ammonites Sohlites and the upper Bajocian Rich Member of the Twin Creek
Parachondroceras and the pelecypods Gryphaea plano- Limestone (Imlay, 1967b, p. 35).
convexa Whitfleld and Gervillial montanaensis Meek., The Sawtooth Formation, in western and north-cen
Dating the Rich Member as latest Bajocian is based on tral Montana, is 230 feet (70 m) or less in thickness, con
its gradational relationship with the underlying Slide- sists of normal marine shale, sandstone, and limestone,
rock Member, whose upper half contains the ammonites and passes eastward gradually into the Piper Formation.
Megasphaeroceras, Spiroceras, Stemmatoceras, Ste- Most of the gradation is near a line drawn northward
phanoceras, and questionable Normannites. These in as from the northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park,
sociation can only be of early late Bajocian Age (Imlay, although in north-central Montana the upper member of
1967b, p. 26, 27; 1973, p. 29, 34). the Sawtooth Formation is represented by sandstone
Elsewhere, the mollusks that characterize the mid and silty limestone as far east as the Bearpaw Mountains
dle limestone member of the Piper Formation are widely in south-central Blaine County.
distributed. They occur in the middle of the Sawtooth In northwestern Montana, north of Belt Island, the
Formation south of Belt Island in Gallatin and Madison westernmost exposures of the Sawtooth Formation con
Counties, southwestern Montana (Imlay, 1967b, p. 33, sist typically of a thin lower sandstone member, a middle
34, 65). They occur throughout 27 feet (8 m) of black shale member, and an upper calcareous siltstone-sand-
limestone and shale in the middle of the Sawtooth For stone member. The lower sandstone member ranges
mation exposed on East Butte in the Sweet Grass Hills, from 8 to 30 feet (2.4 to 9 m) in thickness, is ripple
Liberty County, Mont. They occur in the lower mem marked, and locally bears a basal conglomerate. The
ber of the Shaunavon Formation in southern Saskatche middle shale member thickens northward from about 18
wan (Paterson, 1968, p. 15, 16) along with the coral Ac- feet (5 m) at the Sun River to about 170 feet (52 m) near
tinastrea cf. A. hyatti (Wells) (Wells, 1942, p. 2, pi. 2, Glacier National Park and consists mostly of poorly fos-
figs, la-c, 2a, b). That coral is widespread in the middle siliferous gray to black shale that contains lenses and
limestone member of the Piper Formation in southern nodules of phosphate throughout and some glauconitic
Montana, in the middle limestone member of the Saw sandstone at its base. The upper member thickens north-
ward from 25 to 65 feet (7.6 to 20 m) and consists of gray ammonite Paracephalites (Frebold, 1963, p. 5, 8-13,
to yellowish-gray siltstone, sandstone, and silty to sandy 27-29) to Arctocephalites and Cranocephalites of the
limestone. All these members thin eastward and locally arctic region. The middle shale member in the Sweet
pinch out on the Sweetgrass arch. East of the arch, the Grass Hills is dated as late Bajocian because it contains
middle member passes into highly fossiliferous black a pelecypod fauna identical with that in the Rich Member
thin- to thick-bedded limestone typical of the middle of the Twin Creek Limestone and the Firemoon Lime
member of the Piper Formation. The upper boundary of stone Member of the Piper Formation (Imlay, 1967b, p.
the Sawtooth Formation with the Rierdon Formation is 35).
sharp but apparently not disconformable except possibly The Sawtooth Formation in southwestern Montana
on the Sweetgrass arch, where the top of the Sawtooth is dated only by the presence of the ammonites Sohlites
Formation bears chert pebbles and broken and worn be- and Parachondroceras in its middle member. Those am
lemnite guards (Cobban 1945, p. 1273; Weir, 1949, p. monites in the Twin Creek Limestone are dated as latest
551). Bajocian because they occur just above beds containing
The Sawtooth Formation in southwestern Montana an association of Stemmatoceras, Spiroceras, and Me-
west of the Gallatin Range is also represented by three gasphaeroceras (Imlay, 1967b, p. 26, 27, 31).
members which are well exemplified by the sequence on The Rierdon Formation occurs widely throughout
Indian Creek in the Madison Range (Imlay, Gardner, Montana and North Dakota except in the area of Belt
and others, 1948). At that place, the lower member rests Island, ranges in thickness from a featheredge to 180
on Triassic sandstone, is 79 feet (24 m) thick, and consists feet (55 m) on the surface and to about 350 feet (107 m)
of interbedded green to brown siltstone and mudstone. in the subsurface, and consists mostly of calcareous gray
The middle member is 67 feet (20.4 m) thick, consists of shale and shaly to thin-bedded limestone. Shale predom
light-gray thin- to thick-bedded limestone and contains inates over limestone except in the Little Rocky Moun
Gryphaea planoconvexa Whitfield. The upper member is tains and in the subsurface of south-central Montana.
84 feet (25.6 m) thick and consists of interbedded papery Some silty to sandy beds occur locally near the base of
siltstone, sandy siltstone, thin- to medium-bedded sand the formation near Belt Island. The basal unit in south
stone and thin- to thick-bedded sandy limestone. The ernmost Montana from the Pryor Mountains westward
siltstones are greenish gray to greenish brown, and the consists of oolitic limestone that ranges from a few inches
other rock types are gray to brown. This sequence con to about 30 feet (9 m) in thickness and represents the
trasts with those in the Gallatin Range to the east, be northern edge of the Canyon Springs Sandstone Member
cause it has no red beds in its upper and lower members of the Sundance Formation. At the top of the Rierdon
(Imlay, Gardner, and others, 1948; Ruppel, 1972, p. Formation in south-central Montana is an oolitic to sandy
A25; Moritz, 1951; Scholten and others, 1955, p. 367, 395, limestone that represents the northern extension of the
396). Hulett Sandstone member of the Sundance Formation
The westernmost sequence of the Sawtooth Forma (Cobban, 1945, p. 1279, 1280; Imlay, 1945, p. 255; 1956a,
tion in Montana, exposed in Little Water Canyon in the p. 585-587; Imlay, Gardner, and others, 1948; J. A.
NEy4SWV4 sec. 10, T. 13 S., R. 10 W., Beaverhead Peterson, 1957, p. 408, 409; Richards, 1955, p. 40, 41).
County, is also divisible into three members. The lower This limestone passes northward into chalky limestone
member consists of 58 feet (17.7 m) of gray sandstone at the top of the Rierdon Formation.
and sandy limestone that bears oysters and Campto- The Rierdon Formation extends from the Williston
nectes. The middle member consists of 120 feet (36.5 m) basin into southern Saskatchewan, where its upper part
of fossiliferous gray calcareous shale and shaly lime gradually becomes sandy to the north and northwest. In
stone. The upper member consists of 14 feet (4.2 m) of the subsurface of southern Saskatchewan, beds equiva
interbedded oolitic limestone, fissile shale, and sand lent to this sandy upper part are called the Roseray For
stone. Throughout southern Montana, exposures of the mation, which is much less extensive than the overlying
highest parts of the Sawtooth and the Piper Formations and underlying subsurface formations. The Roseray con
are overlain abruptly by an oolitic limestone bed at the sists mostly of even-bedded fine-grained sandstone but
base of the Rierdon Formation. has some shaly beds near its tip and bottom (Christo
The base of the Sawtooth Formation in northwestern pher, 1974, p. 4, 8, 9, 13, 14, 49, 101). In those shaly
Montana is dated as late middle Bajocian (Imlay, Gard beds are Foraminifera and ostracodes suggestive of ages
ner, and others, 1948; Imlay, 1948, p. 19, pi. 5, figs. 1- intermediate between those of the Rierdon and Swift
5; 1967b, p. 35, 90, 93, pi. 6, figs. 1-3, 7, 8) because of Formations of Montana (Brooke and Braun, 1972, p. 8,
the presence of Chondroceras in close association with 13, 20, pis. 23, 24).
Stemmatoceras. The upper member is dated as early to The age of the Rierdon Formation in Montana has
middle Bathonian on the basis of the resemblance of the previously been considered as early Callovian (Imlay,
Gardner, and others, 1948; Imlay, 1948, p. 14-16; is shale containing Cardioceras and Q. (Pavloviceras) of
1953a, p. 5-8; 1967b, p. 60). However, the lowermost early Oxfordian Age. By contrast, in the Sawtooth Range
part of the formation, which is characterized by Warren- of northwestern Montana, one specimen of Buchia con-
oceras (formerly called Arcticoceras), should be of late centrica (Sowerby) (USGS Mesozoic loc. 27058) of late
middle to early late Bathonian Age on the basis of the Oxfordian Age was obtained from the base of the Swift
close resemblance of Warrenoceras to Arcticoceras; the Formation at the south end of Diversion Ridge south of
latter genus in East Greenland occurs below ammonites the Sun River (NWy4SWy4 sec. 12, T. 21 N., R. 9 W.,
characteristic of the earliest Callovian Macrocephalites Sawtooth Ridge Quad.). The same species was also ob
macrocephalus zone of Europe, according to Callomon tained from sandy shale above a thick sandstone ledge in
(1959) and Birkelund and others (1971, p. 254). Also, the upper part of the lower member of the Swift Forma
most of the overlying beds, characterized by Kepplerites tion on the north side of the Great Northern Railway
costidensus (Imlay), K. subitus Imlay, and K. aff. K. about 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Marias Pass (Imlay,
tychonis (Ravn), should be of latest Bathonian Age on 1956a, p. 595).
the basis of comparisons with East Greenland. Only the The age of the upper part of the Swift Formation is
uppermost part of the Rierdon Formation, characterized uncertain because that part has not furnished any diag
by Kepplerites maclearni Imlay in association with Lil- nostic fossils. It should be late Oxfordian to possibly
loettia and Xenocephalites, is definitely early Callovian. early Kimmeridgian on the basis of its stratigraphic po
The age of the Rierdon Formation in southern Sas sition.
katchewan is apparently the same near its top as that of The Morrison Formation in Montana rests conform
the Rierdon Formation of Montana, as shown by the ably on the Swift Formation; ranges in thickness from
presence of certain species of Kepplerites (Frebold, 1963, 250 to 400 feet (76 to 122 m); thins northward and disap
p. 23-26, pi. 10, fig. 3, pi. 12, fig. 1; Paterson, 1968, p. pears near the U.S.-Canadian border; consists mostly of
35, 36, pi. 8, pi. 9, figs. 1-3). clay shale, mudstone, dense limestone, and fine-grained
The Swift Formation is more widespread than the sandstone; and at its top contains coal beds or carbona
underlying Jurassic formations. It ranges in thickness ceous beds (Cobban, 1945, p. 1268; Reeside, 1952, p. 25;
from a few feet to about 165 feet (50 m) in outcrops, and Gardner and others, 1945; Hadley and others, 1945). The
to more than 400 feet (122 m) in the subsurface. It con lowermost part of the Morrison Formation in western
sists of glauconitic sandstone, siltstone, and shale, and in Montana should be of Kimmeridgian Age, as shown by
surface sequences generally has a basal conglomerate. In the presence of the late Oxfordian to early Kimmeridgian
the Sawtooth Range of northwestern Montana, the Swift Buchia concentrica (Sowerby) in the lower member of
is divisible into two transitional members. The upper the underlying Swift Formation.
member consists of thin-bedded, ripple-marked sand
stone that contains partings of dark micaceous shale. The SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO TO WESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA
lower member consists of dark fissile micaceous noncal-
careous shale. To the east, one or both members locally Marine Jurassic sequences in Wyoming and adjoin
pinch out on the Sweetgrass arch but reappear farther ing parts of Idaho and South Dakota (fig. 26) closely re
east and gradually become much shalier eastward (Cob- semble the equivalent marine sequences in Montana and
ban, 1945, p. 1281-1286). North Dakota at their top and bottom. At the top of the
By contrast, the Swift Formation in southwestern, Jurassic, the Stump Sandstone, as exposed along the
southern, and central Montana consists mainly of me Idaho-Wyoming border, resembles the Swift Formation
dium- to thick-bedded, glauconitic ripple-marked sand of western Montana and likewise passes eastward into
stone that persists as far east as the Big Snowy Moun shale (Redwater Shale Member of the Sundance Forma
tains and the western part of the Pryor Mountains. Shale tion) that becomes shalier from the base upward and is
appears in these mountains at or near the base of the predominantly shale east of the center of the Bighorn
formation and gradually thickens eastward as the over Basin. At the bottom of the Jurassic, the Gypsum Spring
lying sandstone thins (Imlay, Gardner, and others, 1948; Formation (or Member of the Twin Creek Limestone),
Imlay, 1956a, p. 598, fig. 2 on p. 566; Moritz, 1951, p. resembles the Nesson Formation of the Williston Basin.
1804-1810). The lithologic units between the Stump and the Gypsum
The age of the basal beds of the Swift Formation var Spring show some resemblances to the units between the
ies considerably from place to place. In the Bearpaw and Swift and Nesson Formations but also show many differ
Little Rocky Mountains, the basal beds contain Quen- ences.
stedtoceras (Lamberticeras) collieri Reeside, which by The Gypsum Spring Formation, as originally defined
comparison with Europe should represent the latest Cal by Love (1939, p. 42-46; Love and others, 1945), crops
lovian. Directly above in the lower part of the formation out in the northwestern part of the Wind River Basin
west of long 108° W., in the Teton and Gros Ventre areas and gray limestone and overlain by 20-40 feet (6-12 m)
of northwestern Wyoming, along the east and west sides of dark-red claystone containing nodules and lenses of
of the Bighorn Mountains, in the northwestern part of gypsum (Imlay, 1956a, p. 578). Along the eastern flank
the Black Hills in eastern Wyoming and western South of the mountains, the lower 40-70 feet (12-21 m) or
Dakota, and around the northern parts of the Bighorn more of the formation at more places consists of dark-red
and Pryor Mountains in south-central Montana. Also, the claystone and siltstone whose basal 10-50 feet (3-15 m)
equivalent Gypsum Spring Member of the Twin Creek contains some thin beds of gypsum, and some units of
Limestone occurs near the Wyoming-Idaho border and limestone breccia. At a few places, however, the basal
in north-central Utah. beds consist of gypsum masses as much as 50 feet (15 m)
In the Wind River Basin, the Gypsum Spring For thick (Hose, 1955, p. 52-54, 106, 107; Mapel, 1959, p.
mation ranges in thickness from 250 feet (76 m) to a 28-32, pi. 5).
featheredge and consists of three lithologic units. At the Along both flanks of the Bighorn Mountains, the up
base is 20 to 40 feet (6-12 m) of red, slightly sandy silt- per part of the Gypsum Spring Formation consists mostly
stone that is overlain by 13-95 feet (4-30 m) of massive of 70-110 feet (21-33.5 m) of alternating units of lime
white gypsum. At the top is 65-135 feet (20-41 m) feet stone and dark-red claystone. The lower limestone unit
of interbedded red siltstone, red claystone, slabby lime consists mostly of gray, dense, shaly to thin-bedded lime
stone, ribboned chert-bearing dolomite or dolomitic lime stone, is locally dolomitic, locally contains blocky chert,
stone, and some gypsum (Love and others, 1945; Love and in some beds contains external molds of tiny gastro
and others, 1947; Pipiringos, 1968, p. D18). The Gyp pods. The middle limestone unit is similar, but some beds
sum Spring Formation rests unconformably on the Nug are mottled pink to light green, and some bear many
get Sandstone and is overlain unconformably by the poorly preserved molds of pelecypods. The upper lime
Piper Formation or by sandy oolitic beds at the base of stone unit is white, dense, and partly dolomitic, contains
the Sundance Formation. many beds and lenses of blocky chert, and forms a prom
In northwestern Wyoming east of the belt of thrust inent ledge.
faulting, the Gypsum Spring Formation is essentially the Above these limestone units on both flanks of the
same as in the Wind River Basin except that the massive Bighorn Mountains is 10-50 feet (3-15 m) or more of
gypsum is locally replaced on the surface by a brecciated dark-red to pale-green siltstone and claystone (Imlay,
unit consisting of red siltstone and limestone. Here, as in 1956a, p. 578, Mapel, 1959, p. 29). These beds could rep
the Wind River Basin, the formation is underlain uncon resent the uppermost part of the Gypsum Spring For
formably by the Nugget Sandstone and overlain uncon mation, but they are herein considered to represent the
formably by normal marine limestone equivalent to the southern pinch-out of the upper red-bed member of the
Piper Formation of Montana and north-central Wyoming Piper Formation.
(Imlay, 1956b, p. 70; 1967b, p. 6, 7, 19; Foster, 1947, p. The Gypsum Spring Formation pinches out south
1566; Wanless and others, 1955; Love and others, 1973). ward along the flanks of the Bighorn Mountains. It
Along the Idaho-Wyoming line and in north-central rests sharply and unconformably on the Triassic part of
Utah, the Gypsum Spring member of the Twin Creek the Chugwater Formation (Hose, 1955, p. 53; Mapel,
Limestone thickens westward from 12 to 400 feet (3.6 to 1959, p. 29; Imlay, 1956a, p. 579). The Gypsum Spring is
122 m) and consists mostly of soft red to yellow clay- overlain with angular unconformity by the lower part of
stone and siltstone that is interbedded with brecciated or the Sundance Formation south of a line extending north
vuggy limestone, or with chert-bearing limestone. The east from Hyattville to Banner, Wyo. North of that line,
chert-bearing limestone thickens westward from a few it is overlain sharply by red claystone, herein assigned to
feet to 70 feet (21 m). The brecciated limestone marks the Piper Formation, which in turn is overlain sharply
the position of thick masses of gypsum that are exposed by gray sandstone or calcareous shale at the base of the
about 32 miles (51 km) south-southeast of Jackson, Wyo. Sundance Formation.
(Imlay, 1967b, p. 3, 17-19). Both lower and upper con In the Black Hills area, the Gypsum Spring Forma
tacts of the member are sharp and presumably uncon- tion is exposed only in the northwestern and northern
formable. parts, where it ranges in thickness from a featheredge to
The Gypsum Spring Formation exposed along the 125 feet; it attains its greatest thickness 10 miles north
flanks of the Bighorn Mountains and at the south end of east of Hulett, Wyo. At that place, its lowermost 75 feet
the Bighorn Basin is similar lithologically to the forma (23 m) consists of massive gypsum and red claystone that
tion in the Wind River Basin. Along the western flank of rests sharply on the Triassic part of the Spearfish For
the mountains, the lower part of the formation consists mation. Its uppermost 50 feet (15 m) consists of interbed
of 25-100 feet (7.6-30.5 m) of massive white gypsum ded limestone and red to gray claystone. Its upper con
interbedded with some dark-red claystone, red siltstone, tact is truncated and channeled in places by chert pebbles
in the basal bed of the overlying Sundance Formation basin (Nordquist, 1955, p. 99^103; Rayl, 1956, p. 38-
(Mapel and Bergendahl, 1956). 43; Imlay, Gardner, and others, 1948). The absence of
The upper part of the Gypsum Spring Formation is the Gypsum Spring Formation along the northwest side
definitely of Jurassic age, on the basis of an association of the Bighorn Basin is shown by the lack of any dolomi-
of the pelecypods Grammatodon, Myophorella, Opis tic beds, by the presence of much highly fossiliferous
(Trigonopis), and Quenstedtia with the gastropods Ner- shaly limestone, and by the basal beds of the Piper For
itina, Tylostomal, Nododelphinulal, Procerithium, and mation containing chert pebbles that are identical litho-
Lyosoma powelli White. These fossils were collected logically with chert beds or lenses in the Gypsum Spring
near Mill Creek, about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Formation.
Lander, Wyo., in a limestone bed about 20 feet (6 m) The Piper Formation elsewhere in north-central Wy
below the top of the formation, which is 224 feet (68 m) oming is represented mainly by its upper red-bed mem
thick at that place (Love and others, 1945; Sohl, 1965, p. ber. In the Wind River Basin that member ranges from
D10). about 50 feet (15 m) to a featheredge, consists of red silt-
The Gypsum Spring Formation must be older than stone and claystone that becomes sandy near its eastern
late Bajocian, because it underlies limestone of that age margin, and rests sharply on dolomitic beds or limestone
at Lower Slide Lake northeast of Jackson, Wyo. (Imlay, at the top of the Gypsum Spring Formation (Love and
1967b, p. 567, 577, 583; 1967b, p. 19, 33, 34, 59), and others, 1945; Pipiringos, 1968, p. D10). The thickest sec
because the equivalent Gypsum Spring Member of the tion, exposed at Red Creek on the north side of the Wind
Twin Creek Limestone underlies limestone of late Bajo River Basin, is of special interest because its base is
cian Age and probably late middle Bajocian Age along marked by a chert conglomerate and at one place by a
the Idaho-Wyoming border (Imlay, 1967b, p. 28). The lens of pebbly limestone resembling that which occurs
Gypsum Spring cannot be much older than late Bajocian, near the top of the middle limestone member of the Piper
however, because it contains the gastropod Lyosoma Formation along the western and southern sides of the
powelli White, which occurs elsewhere mostly in upper Pryor Mountains, Mont. (Imlay, 1956a, p. 572-574).
Bajocian beds such as the Sliderock and Rich Members Near the northern border of Wyoming, the upper
of the Twin Creek Limestone, the middle limestone red-bed member of the Piper Formation is represented
member of the Piper Formation near Cody, Wyo., and by 10-86 feet (3-26 m) of red claystone and some gyp
the basal limestones of the Carmel Formation in central sum, which is beneath the Sundance Formation and
Utah. That species also occurs in somewhat younger above dolomitic beds typical of the Gypsum Spring For
Canyon Springs Sandstone Member of the Sundance mation (Imlay, 1956a, p. 578). This claystone and gyp
Formation in the Bighorn Basin (Sohl, 1965, p. D5, D10, sum unit crops out nearly continuously along the east
Dll, D18). This evidence definitely favors an early to side of the Bighorn Mountains north of Banner, and
middle Bajocian Age for the Gypsum Spring Formation. along the west side of the Bighorns north of Hyattville.
The Piper Formation is exposed in Wyoming along It correlates with, and is continuous with, the upper red-
the northwest side of the Bighorn Basin from about 30 bed member of the Piper found in south-central Mon
miles (48 km) southwest of Cody northward to the Mon tana. This correlation is supported by comparisons be
tana border, in the northwestern part of the Wind River tween sequences at Sykes Mountain, Wyo., and Gypsum
Basin nearly as far east as Lander, and along the flanks Creek, Mont. (Imlay, 1956a, p. 568, 569), and between
of the Bighorn Mountains north of Hyattville and sequences at Red Gulch, Wyo., and Lodge Grass Creek,
Banner. Mont, (see table 1 for exact locations)(Imlay and others,
The Piper Formation exposed along the northwest 1948, columnar sections along line D-D'; Mapel, 1959,
side of the Bighorn Basin is of special interest because it pi. 5).
consists of three members that are essentially identical A basal unconformity is indicated by the presence of
with the three members of the Piper Formation in Mon chert pebbles found as float near the base of 43 feet (13
tana (Imlay, Gardner, and others, 1948; Imlay, 1954, m) of red claystone exposed at Lodge Grass Creek. This
1956a) and that rest directly on the Triassic part of the unconformity is further substantiated by the presence of
Chugwater Formation. The sequence exposed at Clarks dark-gray wind-polished chert pebbles at the base of 86
Fork Canyon near the Montana border (Imlay, 1956a, p. feet (26 m) of dark-red claystone that underlies the Sun-
567) is essentially identical with that exposed 30 miles dance Formation near the east end of Sykes Mountain.
(48 km) southwest of Columbus, Mont. (Imlay, Gardner, These pebbles, collected by G. N. Pipiringos and the
and others, 1948). The sections exposed near Cody are writer, consist of chert identical with that in the under
essentially identical with the section exposed at Red lying Gypsum Spring Formation.
Dome about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Bridger, Mont., The middle limestone member of the Piper Forma
as well as closely similar to the Piper Formation in the tion in the Cody area contains the same characteristic
subsurface in southern Montana and in the Williston mollusks that occur (1) in that member in Montana, (2) in
the Rich Member of the Twin Creek Limestone near the 165 feet (50 m) in north-central Colorado (Pipiringos and
Wyoming-Idaho border, and (3) on the north side of others, 1969, p. N10).
Lower Slide Lake, Teton County, Wyo., in 85 feet (26 The Canyon Springs Sandstone Member is probably
m) of shaly limestone that represents a thin eastern ex of Bathonian Age because it contains Warrenoceras
tension of the Rich Member (Imlay, 1956b, p. 70; 1967b, (USGS Mesozoic Iocs. 20496, 20497, 20503) in the Hart-
p. 31). Accordingly, on the basis of stratigraphic posi ville uplift of southeastern Wyoming and in the type sec
tion, the upper red-bed member of the Piper Formation tion of the member (USGS Mesozoic loc. 20337) about 4
in the Bighorn Basin is correlated with the similar-ap miles west of Horton, Wyo. (Imlay, 1947, p. 250; 1953a,
pearing Boundary Ridge Member of the Twin Creek p. 17, 22). Warrenoceras, formerly classified with Arcti-
Limestone and with the eastward extension of that mem coceras (Imlay, 1953a, p. 5, 19-23), is either a subgenus
ber at Lower Slide Lake and at Green River Lakes (Im of Arcticoceras or a provincial time equivalent. Its re
lay, 1967b, p. 39). Similarly, the lower red-bed and gyp semblance to Arcticoceras suggests that it is of about the
sum member of the Piper Formation from the Cody area same age and probably early late or late middle Bathon
northward to Montana is correlated with the Sliderock ian on the basis of the ammonite sequence in East Green
Member of the Twin Creek Limestone and with eastern land (Callomon, 1959). Similarly, a late Bathonian Age is
extensions of that member, which underlies the Rich indicated by the presence of Warrenoceras in an oolitic
Member (Imlay, 1967b, p. 27, 29, 30). limestone unit at the base of the Sundance Formation at
The Sundance Formation comprises seven members Red Creek (USGS Mesozoic loc. 21635) in the Wind
in the Black Hills region of Wyoming and South Dakota River Basin and in the Cody area of the Bighorn Basin
and in southeastern and central Wyoming as far north (USGS Mesozoic loc. 17106). This oolitic limestone unit
as the southern side of the Wind River Basin (Imlay, correlates, therefore, both stratigraphically and faunally
1947; Pipiringos, 1953, 1957, 1968, p. D18-D24). These with the Canyon Springs Sandstone Member.
members, from the base upward, are Canyon Springs The Stockade Beaver Shale Member of the Sundance
Sandstone, Stockade Beaver Shale, Hulett Sandstone, Formation grades into the adjoining members and passes
Lak, Pine Butte, Redwater Shale, and Windy Hill Sand laterally southward entirely into the underlying Canyon
stone. Regional unconformities occur at the base of the Springs Sandstone Member in south-central Wyoming.
Canyon Springs, the Redwater, and the Windy Hill. In the Black Hills, the shale member consists of 5-90
The Canyon Springs Sandstone Member represents feet (1.5-2.7 m) of greenish-gray, fissile, calcareous
the initial deposits of a transgressing sea. It rests on an shale that includes some limestone beds and nodules near
irregular surface of erosion, varies considerably in thick its base and some siltstone and sandstone near its top
ness within short distances, becomes thicker to the south, (Imlay, 1947, p. 251, 252). In south-central Wyoming,
and in many places is marked basally by pebbles, most of the member consists of 12-110 feet (3.6-34 m) of
which consist of chert. As a lithologic unit it extends greenish-gray shale and siltstone (Pipiringos, 1968, p.
westward from the Black Hills to the Bighorn Mountains D21). In the Bighorn Basin, the shale member consists
and northward from north-central Colorado to Sheep mostly of soft, gray fissile calcareous shale that is locally
Mountain, about 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Lander, sandy toward its top, ranges in thickness from a feath
Wyo. Westward or northward from those mountains, it eredge to about 80 feet (24 m), is thickest in the northern
passes into sandy oolitic limestone that becomes less part of the basin, and contains an abundance of Gry-
sandy away from the source. phaea, which genus is uncommon in the shale member in
In the Black Hills, the member is present only along the Black Hills (Imlay, 1956a, p. 588^595).
the southern and western margins, ranges in thickness The Hulett Sandstone Member of the Sundance For
from a featheredge to 92 feet (28 m), and consists mostly mation grades into the adjoining members. It consists
of light-gray thin- to thick-bedded sandstone. Locally, mostly of light-gray, fine-grained, calcareous, fossilifer
the sandstone may be ripple marked, oolitic or massive, ous, thin- to thick-bedded, ripple-marked, slightly glau-
and red to white. Locally, the member includes beds of conitic sandstone that is interbedded with some green
maroon to gray shale or siltstone (Imlay, 1947, p. 247- ish-gray shale and siltstone. In the Black Hills, the
251; Gott and Schnabel, 1963, p. 139-140; Mapel and thickness of the Hulett Sandstone Member ranges from
Bergendahl, 1956, p. 87). 20 to 120 feet (6 to 36.5 m) (Imlay, 1947, p. 255; Robinson
and others, 1964, p. 15); in southern Wyoming, from 4 tox
In southern Wyoming, the Canyon Springs Sand 40 feet C1.2 to 12 m) (Pipiringos, 1968, p. D22); along the
stone Member consists of a lower unit of yellowish-white east side of the Bighorn Mountains, from 27 to 70 feet (8
massive or crossbedded sandstone overlain by a unit of to 21 m) (Mapel, 1959, p. 33; Hose, 1955, p. 106; J. A.
ripple-marked, oolitic fossiliferous sandstone (Pipirin Peterson, 1954a, p. 477); along the west side of the Big
gos, 1968, p. D18-D21). It thickens southward from a horn Mountains, from 16 to 104 feet (5 to 32 m); and
featheredge to 65 feet (20 m) in Wyoming and to about around the Pryor Mountains and the northern end of the
Bighorn Mountains, from 0 to 48 feet (0 to 14.6 m) (Im- water Shale Member can be distinguished from sand
lay, 1956a, p. 589). Farther west, the Hulett Sandstone stone beds in the Pine Butte Member by the presence of
Member is possibly represented by about 8 feet of sand belemnites and the absence of furrowed trails.
stone and oolitic limestone at the top of the "Lower The Pine Butte Member in the Black Hills area was
Sundance" Formation at Red Creek in the Wind River identified by G. N. Pipiringos in 1964 while on a field trip
Basin (T. 6 N., R. 3 W.) (Love and others, 1945). It is with the writer. At that time he noted that a sandstone
also possibly represented at the same stratigraphic po unit 5-32 feet (1.5-10 m) thick at the base of the Red-
sition in the gorge of the Shoshone River west of Cody water Shale Member (Imlay, 1947, p. 245, 260, 267-273;
by 24 feet (0.8 m) of gray sandstone and by the overlying Robinson and others, 1964, p. 16-18) had all the char
14 feet (4.2 m) of sandy claystone and sandy oolitic lime- acteristics of the Pine Butte Member of southern Wyo
^tone (Imlay, 1956a, p. 592). ming. It graded downward into or was conformable with
The Lak Member of the Sundance Formation grades the Lak Member, contained raised furrowed trails, did
into the adjoining members. In the Black Hills, it con not contain belemnites, and was overlain sharply by silt-
sists of 25-100 feet (7.6-30.5 m) of dark-brownish-red stone containing many belemnites. He found that the
to pink to yellowish-gray, very fine grained, generally thickest section of the Pine Butte Member was exposed
massive sandstone and sandy siltstone (Imlay, 1947, p. northeast of Spearfish, S. Dak., in the standard refer
257; Robinson and others, 1964, p. 15; Gott and Schnabel, ence section of the Sundance Formation (Imlay, 1947, p.
1963, p. E141, E142). In southeastern Wyoming near 245). The characteristics of the member at that locality,
Glendo, the member consists of 50 feet (15 m) of fine as shown in a diagram by Pipiringos (1968, p. D12), are
grained nonglauconitic sandstone that is commonly red described as follows:
(Love and others, 1949). In south-central Wyoming, the
member consists of 7-70 feet (2-21 m) of reddish-brown Stratigraphic section of the Pine Butte Member of the
siltstone, sandy siltstone, and silty sandstone that changes Sundance Formation
southward to pale gray or pale yellow near Medicine Bow [Located in the Jolly Quadrangle, about three-quarters of a mile
and Rawlins (Love and others, 1945; Love and others, (1.2 km) northeast of Spearfish, S. Dak., in the SEV4NWV4SEV4SEV4
sec. 3, T. 7 N., R. 2 E. Measured by G. N. Pipiringos, September
1947; Love and others, 1949; Pipiringos, 1968, p. D22, 1964]
D23). The Lak Member pinches out to the west in the Thickness
Powder River Basin and to the north about 20 miles (32 Feet Meters
Sundance Formation:
km) west of Lander. It is absent around the Bighorn Redwater Shale Member (in part):
Mountains and the Bighorn Basin, along the north side 8. Siltstone, medium-gray, clayey, sandy,
calcareous,, glauconitic, fossiliferous;
of the Wind River Basin, and apparently also at Green basal few inches contains abundant
belemnites; makes slope; basal contact
River Lakes at the northwest end of the Wind River is sharp; no belemnites were found below
this contact——————————————————— 25 7.6
Mountains. Partial thickness of Redwater
The Pine Butte Member of the Sundance Formation Shale Member——————————————— 25 7.6
in southern Wyoming (Pipiringos, 1968, p. D22-D23) J-4 unconformity

Pine Butte Member:
consists of 60 feet or less of greenish-gray to white, thin- 7. Siltstone, greenish-gray, clayey, sandy,
bedded, glauconitic, limy, ripple-marked sandstone that and some thin beds of light-olive-gray
silty clay shale; unit makes slope——— 8 2.4
is interbedded with gray to green limy siltstone and clay- 6. Sandstone, greenish-gray, weathers dusky
yellow at the top; very fine grained,
stone and that near its middle generally contains 1-18 calcareous, clayey; contains worm borings
feet of red sandstone and siltstone. Surfaces of sandstone filled with gray clay; iron oxide nodules
about one-half inch (1.3 cm) in diameter
beds are characterized by the presence of raised fur near middle of unit, and some olive gray
mudstone partings; unit makes rounded
rowed trails (GyrochorteT). Marine fossils are not com ledge—————————————————————— 2.5 0.8
5. Sandstone, siltstone, and clay shale; the
mon in the Pine Butte Member, but Pentacrinus colum- sandstone is light gray, very fine
nals, echinoid spines, and pelecypods have been found. grained, silty, clayey, structureless,
calcareous, finely glauconitic,
The member passes southward into north-central Colo fossiliferous, and makes weak ledge in
middle; upper and lower parts of unit
rado, where it intertongues with the underlying Canyon consist of about equal parts of
Springs Sandstone Member (Pipiringos, 1972, p. 27). It light-greenish-gray clay shale and
light-gray clay siltstone————————— 8 2.4
thins northward in Wyoming and pinches out about 17 4. Sandstone, light-gray, very fine grained,
calcareous; middle part makes rounded
miles (27 km) southeast of Lander. It is overlain sharply weak ledge overlain by a 1-foot bed of
by the Redwater Shale Member and is locally truncated light-greenish-gray, noncalcareous clay
shale; upper and lower parts of unit are
by that member. The contact is marked by the presence soft, structureless, clayey, and make
slopes—————————————————————— 7.5 2.3
of many belemnites in the basal beds of the Redwater 3. Clay shale, pale-olive to light-olive-gray;
Shale Member and by their absence in the Pine Butte contains a zone of pale-red clayey
siltstone about 2-3 feet above base;
Member. Sandstone beds at or near the base of the Red- unit makes slope——————————————— 5 1.5
Stratigraphic section of the Pine Butte Member of the (40 to 49 m) in the Wind River Basin, and from 120 to
Sundance Formation—Continued 175 feet (37 to 53 m) in the Bighorn Basin and Bighorn
Sundance Formation—Con. Thickness
Pine Butte Member—Con. Feet Meters Mountains.
2. Sandstone, yellowish-gray, very fine
grained, calcareous; obscure low-angle
The age of the Redwater Shale Member is probably
crossbedding gives faintly varved entirely early to early middle Oxfordian, on the basis of
appearance; fine grains of glauconite
are alined along bedding; also some the presence of the cardioceratid ammonites Cardioceras
biotite muscovite flakes present; unit
makes weak ledge in sharp contact with and Goliathiceras throughout most of the member. Low
the underlying red beds. At an
isolated exposure of this contact about
ermost occurrences range throughout the basal 15 feet
30 feet (9 m) east of this section, the (4.5 m) (Mesozoic Iocs. 19359, 2434, 24736). The upper
basal few inches of the Pine Butte
consists of yellow-orange to rusty-brown most occurrence is 20 feet (6 m) below the top of the
siltstone and green clay shale that
contains thin stringers of vitrain
member where it is 230 feet (70 m) thick on Little Sheep
coal—————-——————....——————— 1 0.3 Mountain southeast of Lovell, Wyo. (Mesozoic loc. 26717).
Thickness of Pine Butte Member———— 32 9.8
At Horse Creek near the northwest end of the Wind
Lak Member
1. Sandstone, pale-reddish-brown, silty; River Basin (Love and others, 1945), Cardioceras occurs
makes soft slope; not measured. 25 feet (7.6 m) below the top of the member where the
The Pine Butte Member is considered to represent member is 130 feet (40 m) thick (Mesozoic loc. 19398).
the upper part of the "Lower Sundance" Formation on On the Johnson Ranch about 17 miles (27 km) southeast
the basis of its conformable relationship with the under of Lander, Wyo., Cardioceras occurs 29 feet (9 m) below
lying member, its unconformable relationship with the the top of the member, which is 127 feet (39 m) thick
overlying Redwater Shale Member, and the presence of (Mesozoic loc. 28400).
the pelecypods Vaugonia conradi (Meek and Hayden) The Windy Hill Sandstone Member of the Sundance
and Quenstedtia cf. Q. sublaevis (Meek and Hayden). Formation in southern Wyoming (Pipiringos, 1968, p.
These species were originally described from the various D23-D25) consists of 5^57 feet (1.5-17 m) ledge-form
members of the "Lower Sundance" Formation in the ing sandstone that is yellowish-gray, limy, ripple marked,
Black Hills and are widely distributed in the western weathers .bright yellow to orange to brown, and contains
interior region, but they are not known from the Red- a few specimens of Ostrea and Camptonectes. Its upper
water Shale Member or its equivalents. In addition, in part grades into and locally intertongues with the Mor-
the section of the Pine Butte Member described above, rison Formation. Its basal part rests sharply on and lo
the fossiliferous ledge in the middle of unit 5 contains cally truncates the Redwater Shale Member. It pinches
Myophorella montanaensis Meek (USGS Mesozoic Iocs. out northwestward a little west of Hanna, Utah, and a
29128 and 29518). In Montana this species ranges from little west of Lander, Wyo. (G. N. Pipiringos, oral com-
the middle limestone member of the Piper Formation mun., 1974). It is not present along the north side of the
into the lower part of the Rierdon Formation; along the Wind River Basin, or around the Bighorn Mountains, or
Idaho-Wyoming border it ranges from the Sliderock anywhere in northwestern Wyoming or in Montana.
Member of the Twin Creek into the Watton Canyon The Windy Hill Sandstone Member is represented
Member of the Twin Creek; and in Utah it occurs in the in the Black Hills area, according to Pipiringos (1968, p.
lower part of the Carmel Formation (Imlay, 1964d, p. D24), by a bright yellow sandstone that is lithologically
C4, C31-C33; 1967b, p. 82). similar to the typical exposures of the member elsewhere
The Redwater Shale Member of the Sundance For and that occupies the same stratigraphic position. These
mation in south-central Wyoming, as defined by Pipirin- similarities were recognized previously by Mapel and
gos (1968, p. D23), consists of four units, which from the Pillmore (1963, p. N16) before the member was named.
base to top are alternately siltstone and shale. Of these, For mapping purposes, they placed the yellow sandstone
the siltstone units contain beds of shelly coquinoid sand in the top of the Redwater Shale Member because it was
stone or limestone, and the shale beds contain limestone too thin to map separately but formed an easily recog
concretions. To the northwest, the upper two units pass nizable formation boundary. They did not see any evi
into cliff-forming sandstone, and the lower two units pass dence that the yellow sandstone might rest unconform-
into somewhat softer silty or clayey sandstone. This two ably on the underlying shale. They did note, however,
fold division exists in the Bighorn Mountains and Big that the yellow sandstone contained some thin seams
horn Basin and in west-central Wyoming west of Sheep of chert and some thin beds of gypsum and that locally
Mountain, which is about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of beds of gypsum occurred both above and below the sand
Lander (Pipiringos, 1968, fig. 2 on p. D3). The Redwater stone.
Shale Member ranges in thickness from about 75 to 165 The exact age of the Windy Hill Sandstone Member
feet (23 to 50 m) in the Black Hills, from 50 to 120 feet is not known. Nonetheless, its unconformable relation
(15 to 37 m) in southern Wyoming, from 130 to 160 feet ship with the underlying dated Redwater Shale Member
in southern Wyoming suggests that it is younger than rock Member to the Leeds Creek Member. The upper
early Oxfordian and probably represents a small part of most of these, the Leeds Creek equivalent, also resem
middle Oxfordian time. Its absence north of central Wy bles the Stockade Beaver Shale Member of the Sundance
oming may be due to distance away from a source of Formation lithologically and faunally. This unit is over
sand, to its merging northward into deeper water marine lain by 41 feet (12.5 m) of partially covered beds (units 23
deposits, or to both. to 30 in the section below), which were exposed in a
The Twin Creek Limestone, exposed along the Wy trench made when the section was measured. These beds
oming-Idaho border in an area of thrust faulting and in extend up to an unconformity at the base of the "Upper
north-central Utah, has recently been described in detail Sundance" formation (equivalent to the Stump Sand
and correlated member by member with marine beds stone, or the Redwater Shale Member of the Sundance):
elsewhere in the western interior region (Imlay, 1967b,
p. 2^52). As this information is readily available, only Stratigraphic section of the Sundance Formation and its mem
the most essential is discussed here and is shown on fig bers with its Twin Creek Limestone member equivalents and
ures 26 r 27, and 28. Gypsum Spring Formation
East of the area of extensive thrust faulting, beds [Exposed on the north side of Lower Slide Lake in sec. 4, T. 42 N.,
R. 114 W., Teton County, Wyo.]
equivalent to the Twin Creek Limestone crop out in the
Thickness
south-central part of Yellowstone National Park, near Feet Meters
the Gros Ventre River northeast and east of Jackson Sundance Formation:
Redwater Shale Member:
(Foster, 1947, p. 1565, 1566; Imlay, 1956b; 1967b, p. 6), 35. Sandstone, gray, fine- to medium-grained,
limy, glauconitic; basal 20 feet pebbly;
and at the west end of the Wind River Mountains near overlain by Morrison(?) and Cloverly
Green River Lakes (Richmond, 1945). In those areas, Formations; estimated thickness——————
34. Sandstone, green, fine-grained, glauconitic;
100+ 30.4+
however, the marine Jurassic beds above the Gypsum forms vertical reentrant under cliff——— 17 5.2
33. Sandstone, dark-gray to black, clayey to
Spring Formation are referred to the Sundance Forma silty, highly glauconitic; forms slope— 7 2.1
tion because they are much thinner, much less calcar 32. Siltstone, dark-gray, clayey, glauconitic;
contains 4-inch (10-cm) bed of siliceous
eous, and more fossiliferous than the typical Twin Creek nodules; contains many belemnites and
ostracodes near base————————————— 7 2.1
Limestone. Nonetheless, the lower part of the Sundance 31. Bentonite, yellowish-white to gray,
fissile———————————— 1 0.3
Formation in those areas consists of units that are lith- Total Redwater Shale Member——————— 132+ 40.2+
ologically, stratigraphically, and faunally equivalent to Pine Butte(?) Member
30. Sandstone, greenish-gray, very fine
the Sliderock, Rich, Boundary Ridge, Watton Canyon, grained, limy, ripple-marked; forms
prominent ledge--——————————————— 2 0.6
and Leeds Creek Members of the Twin Creek Lime 29. Sandstone, greenish-yellow, soft, silty;
includes some thin sandstone beds that
stone. Also, the first three members are not represented form weak ledges———————————————— 9.5 2.9
in the typical Sundance Formation farther east but are 28. Sandstone, greenish-gray, very fine grained,
platy, nonglauconitic; forms ledge-——— 1 0.3
represented in the Piper Formation. 27. Siltstone, pink, soft—————————————— 1 0.3
26. Sandstone, greenish-gray, very fine grained,
Thus, at Bacon Ridge, in sees. 13 and 14, T. 40 N., platy, nonglauconitic; forms ledge———— 1 0.3
Total Pine Butte(?) Member———————— 14.5 4.4
R. Ill W., Teton County, Wyo., 125 feet (38 m) of soft Lak Member:
limy shale resembles both the Stockade Beaver Shale 25. Siltstone, greenish- to yellowish-gray,
sandy, soft——————————————————— 5 1.5
Member of the Sundance Formation and the Leeds Creek 24. Siltstone, reddish-pink, sandy, soft———— 19.5 5.9
23. Siltstone, greenish- to yellowish-gray,
Member of the Twin Creek Limestone. Above this shale sandy, soft——————————————————— 12 3.7
Total Lak Member—————————————— 36.5 11.1
is 8 feet (2.4 m) of gray, fine-grained, hard, ripple- Stockade Beaver Shale Member:
marked sandstone (Love and others, 1948, p. 48) that 22. Shale, limy; several thin beds of limestone
30-40 feet (9-12 m) above base.
could be interpreted either as an extension of the Hulett Contains Cadoceras and Gryphaea
nebrascensis————————————————— 163 49.7
Sandstone Member of the Sundance or of the Giraffe Total Stockade Beaver Shale Member—— 163 4g.7
Creek Member of the Twin Creek Limestone. Next Canyon Springs Sandstone Member:
higher is 4 feet of soft, gray, nonglauconitic siltstone that 21. Limestone, yellowish-gray, oolitic, thin-
to thick-bedded——————————————— 7 2.1
most probably is the bleached lateral extension of the 20. Shale, medium-gray, limy; contains
Gryphaea nebrascensis———————————— 20 6.1
Preuss Sandstone or of the Lak Member of the Sundance 19. Shale, medium-gray, limy, and thin beds
of soft brownish-gray limestone; contains
Formation. Sharply overlying is highly glauconitic sand Warrenoceras————————————————— 10 3.0
stone and shale typical of the Stump Sandstone or of the 18. Limestone, medium-gray, oolitic, massive—
17. Limestone, yellowish-gray, crumbly, medium-
3.5 1.1
"Upper Sundance" Formation in nearby parts of Wyo to thin-bedded———————————————— 4.5 1.4

16. Limestone, yellowish-gray, oolitic, medium-
ming. to thin-bedded———————————————— 12 3.7
Total Canyon Springs Sandstone
Also, a section measured by G. N. Pipiringos and the Member————————-—————————— 57 17.4
Boundary Ridge Member of Twin Creek Limestone
writer north of Lower Slide Lake (see below) contains equivalent:
five well-exposed units that greatly resemble the named 15. Limestone, yellowish-gray, soft, shaly—— 3.5 1.1
14. Limestone, olive-green to gray, soft,
members of the Twin Creek Limestone from the Slide- shaly—————————————————————— 1.5 0.5
Stratigraphic section of the Sundance Formation and its mem of early Oxfordian Age. The Wolverine Canyon Lime
bers with its Twin Creek Limestone member equivalents and stone Member of the Preuss (Imlay, 1952b, p. 1742) can
Gypsum Spring Formation—Continued
not be much younger than early Callovian, as it contains
Thickness the coral Actinastrea hyatti (Wells) (Imlay, 1967b, p. 35)
Feet Meters
Sundance Formation—Con. and the gastropod Lyosoma cf. L. powelli White (Sohl,
Boundary Ridge Member of Twin Creek Limestone
equivalent—Con. 1965, p. Dll, D17, D18, pi. 2, fig. 4). Of these fossils, A.
13. Siltstone, brownish-red, soft; lower hyatti (Wells) has been recorded elsewhere only in beds
contact sharp—————————————— 33-43 10.1-13.1
Total Boundary Ridge Member of Twin
of late Bajocian Age. Lyosoma cf. L. powelli White has
Creek Limestone equivalent———— 38-48 11.6-15.6 been recorded from the Hulett Sandstone Member of the
Rich Member of Twin Creek Limestone equivalent:
12. Limestone, medium-gray, shaly, partly Sundance Formation in the Badwater area, Fremont
coquinoid——————————————————— 23 7.0
11. Limestone, medium-gray, soft, shaly———— 27 8.2 County, Wyo., and from the Rierdon Formation in
10. Limestone, dark-gray to nearly black,
mostly soft and shaly; some beds 4
northern Yellowstone National Park, Mont.
-10 inches thick; contains The term Stump Sandstone has been applied to the
Parachondroceras and Gryphaea
planoconvexa—~——————————————— 35 10.7 uppermost Jurassic marine sandstone and sandy shale
Total Rich Member of Twin Creek
Limestone equivalent—————————— 85 25.9 overlying the Preuss Sandstone in westernmost Wyo
Sliderock Member of Twin Creek Limestone
equivalent:
ming, southeastern Idaho, and parts of north-central and
9. Limestone, gray, partly oolitic, medium- northeastern Utah. Within that area, the Stump Sand
to thin-bedded———————————————— 16 4.9
8. Limestone, medium-gray, soft, shaly———— 4 1.2
stone ranges in thickness from 130 to 500 feet (40 to 152
7. Shale, yellowish-gray, soft—————————
Total Sliderock Member of Twin Creek
1 0.3 m). It is thickest in southeastern Idaho and thins irreg
Limestone equivalent—————————— 21 6.4 ularly northward and eastward (Mansfield and Roundy,
Gypsum Spring Formation:
6. Siltstone, brownish-red, soft———————— 15 4.6 1916, p. 76, 81; Mansfield, 1927, p. 99-101; 1952, p. 38;
5. Limestone, pinkish-yellow; forms top of
cliff—————————————————————— 8 2.4 Gardner, 1944; Rubey, 1958; Cressman, 1964, p. 52, 53;
4. Limestone, gray to yellow, brecciated;
forms cliff—————————————————— 16 4.9
Staatz and Albee, 1963, 1966; Pampeyan and others,
3. Limestone, purple, yellow, gray, brecciated, 1967; Albee, 1968; Schroeder, 1969; Thomas and Kreu-
silty—————————————————————— 2 0.6
2. Limestone, yellow to pink, soft, silty—— 1-2 0.3-0.6 ger, 1946, p. 1269, 1276, 1278, 1285).
1. Siltstone, brownish-red; rests sharply on
Nugget Sandstone———-——————————— 3 0.9
The Stump Sandstone exposed along the Idaho-Wy
Total Gypsum Spring Formation————— 46 14.0 oming border consists mostly of sandstone and sandy
shale units and has not hitherto been considered divisi
ble into members. As described by Mansfield (1927, p.
The Preuss Sandstone crops out in the same area as 99-101), the sandstone is fine to medium grained, thin
the Twin Creek Limestone, thickens westward from 70 bedded to massive, ripple marked, calcareous, glaucon-
feet (21 m) or less to about 1,300 feet (400 m), and con itic, greenish-gray to gray, and locally crossbedded. In-
sists mostly of pale- to dull-red, even-grained, fine terbedded with the sandstone are some beds of calcar
grained, plane-bedded, locally ripple-marked sandstone. eous, greenish-gray shale and sandy siltstone and some
In addition, its lower part contains considerable bedded beds of glauconitic, greenish-gray, shaly, thin-bedded to
salt along the Idaho-Wyoming border, and a marine lime massive limestone that may be sandy, oolitic, and ripple
stone member attains nearly 200 feet (61 m) in the area marked. Apparently all gradations between sandy lime
east of Blackfoot and Idaho Falls, Idaho. The formation stone and calcareous sandstone are represented. The
grades downward into the Twin Creek Limestone and is base is generally marked by a bed of fossiliferous coarse
overlain sharply and unconformably by the Stump Sand grained sandstone or grit, according to Mansfield (1927,
stone or by the Curtis Formation in Utah (Mansfield, p. 99-101).
1927, p. 98, 99, 338-^340; Baker, 1947; Thomas and Krue- Recent field studies by George Pipiringos and the
ger, 1946, p. 1277, 1278; Imlay, 1952b). writer have shown that the Stump Sandstone exposed
A marine origin for the Preuss Sandstone is shown along the Idaho-Wyoming border includes members that
by the presence of salt, marine limestone, even grain are lithologically, stratigraphically, and faunally equiva
size, even bedding and oscillation ripple marks. Marine lent to the Curtis Formation of Utah and to the younger
fossils, including pelecypods, gastropods, and corals, are sandy facies of the Redwater Shale Member of the Sun-
common only in exposures east of Blackfoot and Idaho dance Formation of northern Utah and western Wyo
Falls, Idaho, but oysters and crinoid columnals are found ming. As the Stump Sandstone at present is the most
as far east as sec. 17, T. 31 N., R. 119 W., about 7 miles practical unit for mapping purposes, it is herein retained
(11 km) southwest of Afton, Wyo. as a formation and is divided into the Curtis Member be
The age of the Preuss Sandstone must be mostly low and the Redwater Member above. This terminology
middle Callovian, because it conformably overlies beds applies to an area extending eastward from the Black-
of early Callovian Age and unconformably underlies beds foot Mountains east of Blackfoot and Idaho Falls in Idaho
to the Wyoming and Hoback Ranges in western Wyo 16024), and at McCoy Creek, Idaho (Mesozoic loc. 17897),
ming; extending southward from the Teton Range in the as well as in the lower part of its upper third at McCoy
western part of the Jackson Hole area at least as far as Creek (USGS Mesozoic loc. 30395). In addition, the for
Woodruff and Peoa in north-central Utah, Evanston in mation at its base at Telephone Creek contains the pele-
southwestern Wyoming; and eastward from Peoa along cypods Vaugonia quadrangularis (Hall and Whitfield)
the length of the Uinta Mountains. and Oxytoma wyomingensis (Stanton) along with Car
The Curtis Member near the Wyoming-Idaho border dioceras and belemnites (USGS Mesozoic loc. 16024) and
ranges in thickness from 30 to at least 395 feet (9 to 120 at its top on McCoy Creek contains 0. uryomingensis
m), thins eastward and northward, and extends consid (Stanton) (USGS Mesozoic loc. 12125). The presence of
erably farther south and southwest than the Redwater these bivalves is important for correlation purposes be
Member. Its lower contact with the underlying Preuss cause they occur elsewhere in the Redwater Shale Mem
Sandstone is sharp on McCoy Creek, Idaho (sec. 6, T. 37 ber of the Sundance Formation and in the Swift Forma
N., R. 46 E.), is gradational elsewhere within a few tion, but they do not occur in older formations or
inches or a few feet, and is not marked by pebbles or by members. The presence of Cardioceras shows that the
irregularities suggestive of a disconformity. The Curtis Redwater Member is of early to early middle Oxfordian
Member is distinguished from the Preuss Sandstone by Age.
a fairly abrupt color change upward from red to gray and These facts show that the Curtis and Redwater
by the presence of tracks and trails in abundance. These Members of the Stump Sandstone were deposited in dif
differences probably indicate a slight deepening of the ferent seas that covered somewhat different areas, that
sea that caused a change from hypersalinity to almost erosion took place at the end of Curtis deposition and
normal marine salinity. The change must have been very again after Redwater deposition, and that the present
slight because the Curtis Member on Tincup Creek in changes in thicknesses of the members is in part deposi-
Idaho (sec. 9, T. 5 S., R. 46 E., and sec. 10, T. 5 S., R. tional as well as erosional.
45 E.) and on Fish Creek in Wyoming (SEV4 sec. 32, T. The continental Morrison Formation in Wyoming,
30 N., R. 118 W.) contains a unit of red sandstone and western South Dakota, and northernmost Utah and Col
siltstone that is nearly identical lithologically with red orado was deposited conformably on the Windy Hill
units in the Preuss Sandstone. Sandstone Member or on the Redwater Shale Member
The Redwater Member of the Stump near the Idaho- of the Sundance Formation. The Morrison attains thick
Wyoming border is well developed along both sides of nesses of 125-370 feet (38-113 m) in Wyoming and
the Snake River and farther east, ranges in thicknesses South Dakota and more than 800 feet (244 m) in north
from a featheredge to 175 feet (0-^53 m), and thins east eastern Utah (Reeside, 1952, p. 24, 25; Craig and others,
ward and southward. It differs from the underlying Cur 1955, p. 159; Hansen, 1965, p. 85). Westward increases
tis Member by being much more fossiliferous, by contain in thickness and certain changes in lithologic character
ing belemnites and ammonites, by its shale being chunky istics (Mirsky, 1962, p. 1675-1678) indicate that its
instead of fissile, by being more glauconitic, and by its source was to the west in Utah and Idaho. On the basis
bedding surfaces being marked only rarely by tracks and of fresh-water mollusks, it should be older than the Pur-
trails. Unlike the Curtis Member, it does not bear clay- beck Beds of England (Yen, 1952, p. 31-34), which are
pebble impressions or cube-shaped imprints indicative of now correlated with the upper part of the upper Tithon-
salt crystals. Its upper and lower contacts are marked by ian (Yen, 1952, p. 31-34). On the basis of vertebrates
sharp lithologic changes that reflect unconformities. It and stratigraphic position, its age should be mostly Kim-
has not yet been identified lithologically or faunally in meridgian (Imlay, 1952a, p. 953, 958; Reeside, 1952, p.
southeastern Idaho or along the Idaho-Wyoming bor 25). The basal beds of the Morrison, however, where
der south of the Caribou Range, which is just south of they overlie the Redwater Shale Member, should be of
the Snake River. The Redwater Member is definitely late Oxfordian Age, as shown by the presence of Cardi
not present in the type area of the Stump Sandstone cut oceras and Quenstedtoceras throughout most of that
or near Stump Peak. member.
The Redwater Member of the Stump Sandstone in The continental Nugget Sandstone, as exposed in
southeastern Idaho and western Wyoming is correlated southeastern Idaho, western and central Wyoming, and
with the Redwater Shale Member of the Sundance For north-central Utah, lies unconformably below the Gyp
mation elsewhere because it contains belemnites in fair sum Spring Formation, or the Gypsum Spring Member
abundance from bottom to top (USGS Mesozoic Iocs. of the Twin Creek Limestone, of early to early middle
12125, 112126, 16024, 16028, 17897, 18183, 18185, Bajocian Age. Regionally, the Nugget rests unconform
30393, 18187, 30395) and contains Cardioceras near its ably on beds of Late Triassic age (Reeside, 1957, p.
base at Telephone Creek, Wyo. (USGS Mesozoic loc. 1480, 1482; Pipiringos, 1968, p. D16; Pipiringos and
O'Sullivan, 1978). It consists characteristically of red to Stratigraphic section of the Carmel Formation—Continued
brown, or yellowish-gray to white, massive highly Thickness
crossbedded sandstone, but in some places it includes Feet Meters
considerable even-bedded, thin-bedded, ripple-marked, Carmel Formation—Con.
22. Gypsum, white—————————————————— 2 .6
red to gray sandy shale, silty sandstone, and siltstone, 21. Sandstone, red; some gypsum streaks———— 3 .9
which are most common in its lower 200 feet (Mansfield, 20. Gypsum, white—————————————————— 2 .6
19. Shale, light-greenish-gray, finely sandy
1927, p. 96; Love and others, 1945; Pipiringos, 1968, p. to papery———————————————————— 6 1.8
D17; Poole and Stewart, 1964, p. D38; Cressman, 1964, 18. Gypsum, white——————————————————
17. Siltstone, red; some green lenses—————
1
12
.3
3.7
p. 45; Rubey, Oriel, and Tracey, 1975, p. 4). The Glen 16. Shale, light-green, sandy—————————— 23 7.0
15. Shale, light-green, soft; some streaks of
Canyon Sandstone, as exposed in the Uinta Mountains red siltstone; poorly exposed——————— 86 26.2
of northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado, occu 14. Siltstone, red, interbedded with gypsum—
13. Gypsum, massive—————————————————
20
12
6.1
3.7
pies the same stratigraphic position as the Nugget Sand 12. Shale, greenish, soft————————————— 15 4.6
Watton Canyon equivalent:
stone, is bounded by the same unconformities, and is 11. Limestone, grayish-white, lithographic—— 11 3.4
reddish in the western part of the Uinta Mountains and 10. Limestone, light-gray, shaly————————
Boundary Ridge equivalent:
6 1.8
white in the eastern part. Both of these formations on 9. Limestone, light-yellowish-gray, oolitic,
thin-bedded, slightly sandy, ripple
the basis of stratigraphic position could be of Late Trias- marked—————————————————————— 4 1.2
sic and (or) Early Jurassic age. 8. Siltstone, red, soft—————————————— 17 5.2
Rich equivalent:
7. Claystone, greenish-gray, soft, bentonitic 2 .6
6. Sandstone, white, fine-grained, soft——— 2 .6
5. Claystone", greenish-gray, very soft——— 6 1.8
NORTHERN UTAH TO NORTHERN COLORADO 4. Limestone, yellowish gray; thin-bedded in
middle, oolitic at top and bottom;
The Twin Creek Limestone and Preuss Sandstone in contains Pleuromya and Camptonectes———
3. Claystone, yellowish-gray, soft; contains
4 1.2
the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains of north-central Utah thin beds of nodular yellow limestone
containing oysters—————————————— 12 3.7
are nearly identical lithologically with the same forma 2. Claystone and sandy shale, light-gray, soft;
tions exposed farther north, along the Wyoming-Idaho contains a 6-inch (15 cm) bed of brown,
sandy, oolitic limestone at base
border. Eastward in the Uinta Mountains, however, the containing Camptonectes—————————— 9 2.7
lower five members of the Twin Creek Limestone grad 1. Claystone, yellowish-green, soft;
contains many very thin beds
ually wedge out from the base upwards (see fig. 27). (0.2-0.5 in.; 0.6-1.3 cm) 1/4-1/2 inch
of light-yellowish-gray shaly
Thus, the Gypsum Spring Member wedges out between sandstone.——————————————————— 5 1.5
Total thickness—————————————— 345 105.2
Oakley and the Duchesne River; the Sliderock Member, Sharp unconformity.
between Lake Fork and Whiterocks River canyon; the Glen Canyon Sandstone (not measured).
Rich Member, between Whiterocks River canyon and
Vernal; and the Boundary Ridge and Watton Canyon
Members, eastward near Vernal. The two uppermost The Sliderock Member of the Twin Creek Lime
members of the Twin Creek Limestone change markedly stone, as exposed in the Uinta Mountains, is of particular
east of Lake Fork into a sequence of gypsum, red sand interest stratigraphically because its lower beds are
stone and siltstone, and green claystone. This sequence sandy, some are slightly crossbedded, and much of the
closely resembles the Carmel Formation of the San Ra- member locally passes laterally into gray massive
fael Swell and persists eastward into Colorado. crossbedded sandstone that rests sharply on the brown
The eastward lithologic changes from the Twin Creek ish-red Glen Canyon Sandstone. Thus, in an exposure on
Limestone to the Carmel Formation are well shown by the south side of the Duchesne River near Hanna (Imlay,
the sequence at Whiterocks River canyon as described 1967b, p. 23), the member consists from bottom to top of
below: 5 feet (1.5 m) of fine-grained yellow sandstone, 25 feet
(7.6 m) of fine-grained, sandy, medium- to thin-bedded
Stratigraphic section of the Carmel Formation limestone, and 12 feet (3.6 m) of gray massive oolitic
[Exposed in the canyon of Whiterocks River in NW'A sec. 19 and limestone. Two miles to the west on Sand Creek, in the
SEVtSEVt sec. 18, T. 2 N., R. 1 E. t Uintah County, Utah] NWV4 sec. 7, T. 1 S., R. 8 W., the same member from its
Thickness base upward consists of 4 feet (1.2 m) of deep-red, fine
Entrada Sandstone.
Fei grained sandstone, 25 feet (7.6 m) of yellowish-gray,
Carmel Formation: massive crossbedded sandstone that contains Gryphaea
Giraffe Creek equivalent:
25. Siltstone, greenish-gray, soft, and Camptonectes, and then 12 feet (3.6 m) of gray, mas
mostly covered-------------------------
24. Shale, greenish-gray, soft---------------
64
12
19.5
3.7
sive oolitic limestone. Except for this uppermost lime
Leeds Creek equivalent: stone, the member at Sand Creek is similar lithologically
23. Siltstone, red, interbedded with red
fine-grained sandstone containing thin to the Page Sandstone of central and southern Utah
streaks of gypsum——————-—---——— 2.7 (Fred Peterson and G. N. Pipiringos, unpub. data, 1977;
Pipiringos and O'Sullivan, 1975) and occupies the same plied by Thomas and Krueger (1946, p. 1278-1290) for
stratigraphic position just below limestone that contains the western part of the Uinta Mountains at least as far
mollusks characteristic of the Rich Member of the Twin east as Lake Fork north of Duchesne, Utah. Usage of
Creek Limestone (Imlay, 1967b, p. 31, 33). These sand the term Stump Sandstone farther east in the Uinta
stone beds were first recognized by G. N. Pipiringos Mountains is justified because the Curtis and Redwater
(oral commun., 1974) as a northern extension of the Page Members are fairly continuous, because of their strati-
Sandstone. graphic relationships with each other, because the Mor-
The Preuss Sandstone in the Wasatch Mountains re rison Formation is the same throughout the mountains,
sembles the same formation as exposed along the Wyo and because geologists to date have not found it practical
ming-Idaho border by consisting mostly of red fine to map the two members separately.
grained sandstone, by containing saline deposits in its As thus defined, the Curtis Member of the Stump
lower part, and by containing locally near its base a Sandstone in the Uinta Mountains ranges from 30 to 110
sandy limestone member (Granger, 1953, p. 11) that feet (9 to 33.5 m) in thickness; consists mostly of glauco-
could be equivalent to the Wolverine Canyon Limestone nitic, fine-grained to very fine grained, thin- to thick-
Member of the Preuss of southeastern Idaho (Imlay, bedded sandstone that may be even-bedded and ripple
1952b, p. 1740-1743). The exposures in the Wasatch dif marked, or crossbedded; contains glauconite grains of
fer from the others, however, by being softer, siltier, the same size as the surrounding sand grains; locally con
and darker red. This dark-red facies persists eastward tains minor amounts of green fissile or sandy shale; is
into the Uinta Mountains as far as Lake Fork, but be characterized by furrowed trails, by round, flat shale
tween Lake Fork and Whiterocks River canyon, it passes pebble impressions, and by salt casts on bedding plane
into light-colored, clean, crossbedded sandstone that is surfaces; generally rests sharply on the underlying En
called the Entrada Sandstone and that extends eastward trada or Preuss Sandstone; is locally marked basally by
into Colorado. a chert pebble conglomerate; and in places contains the
Marine beds overlying the Preuss Sandstone, or the pelecypods Meleagrinella and Camptonectes (Thomas
equivalent Entrada Sandstone, in the Uinta Mountains and Krueger, 1946, p. 1279; Kinney, 1955, p. 87-88;
are commonly referred to the Curtis Formation (Huddle Untermann and Untermann, 1954, p. 51; Pipiringos, oral
and McCann, 1947; Kinney and Rominger, 1947; Baker, commun., 1975).
1947; Kinney, 1955, p. 85-S9) or to the Stump Sand The overlying Redwater Member of the Stump
stone from Lake Fork westward and to the Curtis For Sandstone ranges from 115 to 140 feet (35 to 43 m) in
mation from the Whiterocks River canyon eastward thickness; contains much soft greenish-gray shale and
(Thomas and Krueger, 1946, p. 1278-1290). All authors thin beds of glauconitic limy sandstone and sandy to ooli
cited here agree that the formation is readily divided into tic limestone, which are especially common near its top
two distinct members. Recent studies by G. N. Pipirin and in the northern and eastern parts of the Uinta Moun
gos (oral commun., 1974) show that the lower member is tains; is characterized by an abundance of belemnites and
identical lithologically and stratigraphically with the type braciopods; rests sharply on the Curtis Member; and is
Curtis Formation of central Utah (Gilluly and Reeside, locally marked basally by a pebble conglomerate (Thomas
1928, p. 78, 79) and with the Pine Butte Member of the and Krueger, 1946, p. 1287). From Duchesne eastward,
Sundance Formation in southern Wyoming (Pipiringos, the Redwater Shale Member of the Sundance is overlain
1968, p. D23). Assignment to the Curtis Formation (or by the Windy Hill Sandstone Member of the Sundance
Member) rather than to the Pine Butte Member is fa (G. N. Pipiringos, oral commun., 1974). Elsewhere in the
vored by the presence of basal unconformity. The Pipi Uinta Mountains, the contact with the overlying Morri-
ringos studies also show that the upper member is iden son Formation is generally drawn at the top of a unit of
tical with the Redwater Shale Member of the Sundance hard sandstone or oolitic limestone and is reported to be
Formation of Wyoming and South Dakota (Imlay, 1947, conformable but not gradational.
p. 259-264; Pipiringos, 1968, p. D23) and is likewise The Redwater Member of the Stump Sandstone in
characterized by an abundance of belemnites. the Uinta Mountains is distinguished from the underly
Recent studies by Pipiringos and Imlay (unpub. data) ing Curtis Member by being generally much shalier and
show also that the Redwater Member is widespread in less glauconitic, by containing belemnites and brachio-
the upper part of the Stump Sandstone, as exposed along pods, by locally containing the ammonite Cardioceras,
the Wyoming-Idaho border, and that it overlies a lower and by lacking furro^ êd trails. Evidently the sequence
member that is nearly identical with the Curtis Forma near Manila, Utah, that Hansen (1965, p. 82) assigned to
tion, or Curtis Member of Utah. These relationships the Curtis Formation actually belongs entirely to the
show that the term Stump Sandstone was correctly ap Redwater Member, although the presence near Manila
of a few feet of the Curtis Member is reported by G. N. spread occurrence of the Windy Hill beyond the boun
Pipiringos (oral commun., 1967). daries of the Redwater Shale Member demonstrates that
All these formations and members extend eastward these two members represent separate marine inva
along the margins of the Uinta Mountains into the west sions.
ern part of Moffat County, in the northwestern corner of The Jurassic exposed along the east side of the Front
Colorado (G. N. Pipiringos, oral commun., 1974). The Range in northern Colorado is represented, from bottom
Carmel Formation, however, wedges out east of Miller to top, by 20 to 50 feet (6 to 15 m) of the Entrada Sand
Creek (sees. 27 and 34, T. 4 N., R. 101 W.). The Red- stone, by thinner marine units belonging to the Pine
water Shale Member of the Sundance Formation is ab Butte Member and the Windy Hill Sandstone Member of
sent east of Uranium Peak (sec. 28, T. 2 N., R. 92 W.) the Sundance Formation, and by the Morrison Forma
in the northeastern part of Rio Blanco County, Colo. The tion (G. N. Pipiringos, oral commun., 1974). All contacts
Curtis Formation and the equivalent Pine Butte Member between these units are conformable except that be
of the Sundance Formation are locally absent at several tween the Windy Hill and the Pine Butte. The conform
places within their area of outcrop, even though the un able relationship of the Entrada Sandstone with the Pine
derlying Entrada Sandstone and the overlying Redwater Butte Member shows that it is equivalent at least at its
Shale Member are present. top to the Lak Member of the Sundance Formation in
In north-central Colorado along the margin of the eastern Wyoming. It is probably equivalent also to the
Park and Gore Ranges in Eagle, Routt, and Grand Canyon Springs Sandstone Member in the Park Range
Counties, the marine Jurassic is represented near in north-central Colorado but may be younger than the
Kremmling, State Bridge, and Burns by the Canyon typical Canyon Springs Sandstone Member in southern
Springs Sandstone, Lak(?), Pine Butte(?), and Windy Wyoming and the Black Hills.
Hill Sandstone Members of the Sundance Formation (Pi
piringos and others, 1969, p. N9-N35). The lower three NORTH-CENTRAL UTAH TO SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO
of these members are transitional into each other, as at
Frantz Creek (fig. 27), but locally the Canyon Springs The Jurassic sequence exposed in Monks Hollow
grades upward into the Pine Butte, as at Elk Creek (fig. (Baker, 1947; Imlay, 1967b, p. 11), about 18 miles (29
27). This relationship shows that the upper part of the km) southeast of Provo, Utah, is essentially the same as
Canyon Springs must locally be as young as the Entrada that exposed in the western part of the Uinta Mountains.
Sandstone of other areas. Its lower part, which is unfos- A possible difference is in the 510 feet (155 m) of beds
siliferous, may or may not be as old as the typical mem between the Preuss Sandstone and the Morrison For
ber in Wyoming. The identification of both the Lak and mation. The lower 260 feet (79 m) of these beds consists
the Pine Butte Members is tentative (Pipiringos and oth mostly of greenish-gray sandy shale interbedded with
ers, 1969, p. N12, N15). some gray to greenish-gray glauconitic sandstone and
Farther north along the Park Range in the Hahns greatly resembles the unit in the Uinta Mountains that is
Peak area of northern Routt County, the marine Sun- identified with the typical Curtis Formation of central
dance Formation is represented by the Canyon Springs and northeastern Utah. The upper 250 feet (76 m) con
Sandstone Member, the Pine Butte Member, the Red- sists mostly of light-brown siltstone that contains a few
water Shale Member, and the Windy Hill Sandstone beds of gray sandstone and greenish-gray shale and that
Member (Pipiringos, 1972, p. 25-29). Of these, the Can was compared by Baker (1947) with the Summerville
yon Springs consists of about 60 feet (18 m) of gray to Formation. These identifications have now been con
pink crossbedded sandstone and rests unconformably on firmed by G. N. Pipiringos and the writer.
Triassic rocks. The Pine Butte Member consists of about The lower 260 feet (79 m) of beds overlying the
30 feet (9 m) of greenish-gray shale and some thin beds Preuss Sandstone at Monks Hollow occupies the same
of ripple-marked sandstone that intertongues downward stratigraphic position as the Curtis Formation, resem
with the Canyon Springs. The Redwater Shale Member bles it lithologically, and likewise contains an abundance
consists of 35 feet (10.6 m) of glauconitic siltstone and of Meleagrinella. These beds differ from the type Curtis
sandstone that correlates with only the lowermost of four Formation on the San Rafael Swell mainly by containing
units of that member exposed in south-central Wyoming more soft clay shale and fewer hard sandstone beds and
(Pipiringos, 1968, p. D23). The Redwater Shale Member by the presence of a few cephalopods. Meleagrinella was
rests unconformably on the Pine Butte Member, is trun collected throughout about 40 feet (12 m) of beds ranging
cated by the Windy Hill Sandstone Member, and is un from about 180 to 220 feet (55 to 67 m) above the top of
known south of Corral Creek (sec. 18, T. 8 N., R. 84 the Preuss Sandstone. With these were found external
W.). This unconformable relationship and the wide and internal molds of the ammonite Lytoceras (USGS
Mesozoic loc. 30718). Also, four belemnites were ob shale and interbedded salt (Hardy, 1952, p. 21, 22, 91).
tained from the upper 10 to 15 feet (3 to 4.5 m) of the It is conformably overlain by the Twist Gulch Member,
Meleagrinella-bearing beds. which consists of 1,670-1,730 feet (509-527 m) of in
The next higher 250 feet (76 m) of beds is definitely terbedded red calcareous siltstone and clay stone, red
similar lithologically to the Summerville Formation of dish-gray to red sandstone, and some conglomerate.
the San Rafael Swell. Like that formation, these beds are Above the Arapien Shale in the Salina Creek canyon east
unfossiliferous and are gradational downward into the un of Salina is 177 feet (54 m) of gray to green shale in
derlying Curtis Formation. These upper beds cannot rea terbedded with and overlain by thin beds of gray sand
sonably be correlated with the Redwater Shale Member stone. This shale contains 17 feet (5 m) of gray grit and
of the Stump Formation, as exposed nearby in the Uinta some brown to red shale at its base (Hardy, 1952, p. 78).
Mountains, because that member consists mostly of Fossils in the thin sandstone beds include Meleagrinella
greenish-gray shale, rests unconformably on the Curtis curia (Hall) and Ostrea.
Member, and contains a fair abundance of fossils. Of these units, the upper 177 feet (54 m) of fossilifer-
The presence of belemnites in the Curtis Formation ous shale and sandstone is identical with the typical Cur
at Monks Hollow is not evidence that the Redwater tis Formation of central Utah and is herein referred to
Shale Member is present there, because in Montana, bel that formation. The underlying Twist Gulch Member is
emnites are in beds of middle Bajocian to late Callovian similar to the Preuss Sandstone of northern Utah but
Age (Imlay, 1948, p. 17; 1962b, p. Cll, C21) and in the differs in that it contains some pebbly beds and in that
Pacific Coast region, they range throughout the Jurassic. some of the sandstone beds are coarse grained or gritty,
Their presence along with Lytoceras, however, is evi or crossbedded. The salt-bearing red silty shale, which is
dence that the marine waters that deposited the Curtis defined as being at the top of the Twelvemile Canyon
Formation at Monks Hollow were deeper than those far Member, corresponds lithologically and stratigraphically
ther east in Utah and that the sea of Curtis time must with the salt-bearing red beds in the lower part of the
have entered the western interior region from the west. Preuss Sandstone along the Idaho-Wyoming border
Marine Jurassic beds exposed on the west side of the (Mansfield, 1927, p. 99, 338-340; Imlay, 1952b, p. 1746).
Gunnison Plateau near Nephi and Levan, Utah, are de The underlying upper part of the Twelvemile Canyon
fined as the Arapien Shale and are divided into two mem Member probably correlates with the Leeds Creek and
bers (Spieker, 1946, p. 123-125; Hardy and Zeller, 1953, Giraffe Creek Members of the Twin Creek Limestone
p. 1264-1266; Hardy, 1962, p. 52-54). The lower of but differs by containing more red units, more sand
these, the Twelvemile Canyon Member, greatly resem stone, and more gypsum.
bles the Twin Creek Limestone. It differs by being in The described Jurassic sequences present on the
tensely folded, crinkled, and fractured and by containing west side and north end of the San Rafael Swell are
more shale, more red units, and some gypsum in its upper typified by the sequence near Buckhorn Wash (Gilluly,
part. Nonetheless, the lower part of the Twelvemile Can 1929, p. 99^-114; Gilluly and Reeside, 1928, p. 97-106,
yon Member, as exposed on the south side of Red Canyon, chart opposite p. 74). On the east side of the swell, they
about 2 miles (3 km) north of Nephi, contains units that are typified by the sequences at the Black Dragon Can
resemble the members of the Twin Creek Limestone from yon and at the San Rafael River (Baker, 1946, p. 6^-90).
the Gypsum Spring Member up to the basal part of the Lithologic units within those sequences are described,
Leeds Creek Member (Imlay, 1964d, p. C6; 1967b, p. 30, correlated, and dated in various papers (Baker and oth
40,44). The Twelvemile Canyon Member is overlain along ers, 1936, p. 11, 25, 26, 31, 58-63; Imlay, 1952a, p. 961-
the Gunnison Plateau by the Twist Gulch Member, which 964; Wright and others, 1962; and Cater and Craig, 1970)
consists of red siltstone and sandstone more than 1,800 and are summarized in figure 28, except for the Curtis,
feet (550 m) thick. This member is similar lithologically to Summerville, and Morrison Formations discussed below.
the Preuss Sandstone in northern Utah, except for the
presence of some gritty or pebbly beds. Of these three, the Curtis Formation consists mostly
of greenish shale, glauconitic sandstone, and shale. Sand
Marine Jurassic beds exposed along the west side of stone is most common and is generally thin bedded, rip
the Wasatch Plateau near Gunnison and Salina are also ple marked, and crossbedded. Shale beds are generally
referred mostly to the Arapien Shale (Hardy, 1952, p. sandy and some are red or lavender. Conglomeratic beds
14-24, 67-95). The Twelvemile Canyon Member, how occur in the lower part of the formation in the northern
ever, is represented only by its upper part, which con and northwestern parts of the swell. The contact of the
sists mostly of much crinkled, gypsiferous red to gray Curtis Formation with the underlying Entrada Sand
shale, siltstone, and sandstone. At its very top, it also stone is sharp, locally angular, and is locally marked by
includes 165-200 feet (50-61 m) or more of red silty conglomerate (Gilluly, 1929, p. 105-108; Gilluly and
Reeside, 1928, p. 78-106; Baker, 1946, p. 80-84). Stump Sandstone. Faunally, the Curtis Formation of the
The Curtis Formation contains echinoid fragments, cri- San Rafael Swell is distinguished from the Redwater
noid columnals, Ostrea strigilecula White, Meleagrinella Shale Member by its lack of belemnites and brachiopods.
curia (Hall), Tancredia, and Camptonectes. These taxa are also absent in the Pine Butte Member of
The Summerville Formation on the San Rafael Swell the Sundance Formation and in the Curtis Member of
consists mainly of thin-bedded, even-bedded shale and the Stump Sandstone.
sandstone and locally contains considerable gypsum. Second, the lowest limestone unit in the Carmel For
Generally the shales are chocolate brown to maroon, and mation on the west side of the San Rafael Swell was
the sandstones are reddish brown. Ripple- marks are dated by Imlay (1967b, p. 32, 33) as latest Bajocian, be
common in the sandstones. The formation grades down cause it contains certain pelecypods and ammonites that
ward into the Curtis Formation, replaces the Curtis gra- elsewhere are characteristic of the Rich Member of the
dationally near the Green River, and is overlain with Twin Creek Limestone and that do not range higher. In
angular unconformity by the Morrison Formation (Gil- particular, the ammonite Sohlites spinosus Imlay was
luly, 1929, p. 108-110; Gilluly and Reeside, 1928, p. 79- obtained 6-12 feet above the base of the Carmel For
106; Baker, 1946, p. 84-86). mation on The Wedge near Buckhorn Wash (Imlay,
The Morrison Formation in the southern part of the 1967b, p. 92, pi. 11, fig. 24).
western interior region attains maximum thicknesses of Third, 100 feet (30 m) or less below the base of the
800-900 feet (240-270 m) (Craig and others, 1955, p. Carmel Formation on the San Rafael Swell, Pipiringos
159) and was derived mainly from source areas in the and O'Sullivan (1975) recognized an unconformity that
west-central parts of New Mexico, in Arizona, in west is marked by chert pebbles and that probably correlates
ern and northwestern Utah, and in southeastern Califor with the unconformity at the top of the Gypsum Spring
nia (Craig and others, 1955, p. 126, 150, 151, 159). Its Formation in Wyoming. These pebbles are overlain by
base cannot be dated as precisely here as in areas to the massive, crossbedded gray sandstone, which was pre
north where the formation rests conformably on the Red- viously assigned to the Navajo Sandstone (Gilluly, 1929,
water Shale Member of the Sundance Formation. Pre p. 98; Gilluly and Reeside, 1928, p. 72; Baker and oth
sumably the Morrison Formation south of northern Utah ers, 1936, pis. 13, 14; Baker, 1946, p. 68, 69) but which
and northern Colorado is also of late Oxfordian to early has now been renamed Page Sandstone (Peterson and
Tithonian Age. Pipiringos, unpub. data, 1977). This sandstone has been
However, the basal part of the Morrison may be of recognized above chert pebble beds at many places in
early Oxfordian Age, equivalent to the Redwater Shale southern Utah, where it is as much as 250 feet (76 m)
Member. Such is suggested by the presence of massive thick and where it conformably underlies and laterally
gypsum at the base of the Morrison Formation in the San intertongues with the lower part of the Carmel Forma
Rafael Swell (Gilluly, 1929, p. 114, 117; Baker, 1946, p. tion (Pipiringos and O'Sullivan, 1975, 1978). Therefore,
87, 89, 90). As that gypsum rests unconformably on the inasmuch as the lower part of the Carmel has been cor
Summerville Formation, it cannot be as old as that for related with the Rich Member of the Twin Creek Lime
mation. Instead, its presence suggests deposition in la stone (Imlay, 1967b, p. 33), the underlying Page Sand
goons at the margin of a shallow sea, such as existed in stone on the swell should be equivalent to the Sliderock
early Oxfordian time north of the San Rafael Swell. Member of the Twin Creek.
Recent refinements in dating the Jurassic formations On the basis of these discoveries, the Curtis For
in the San Rafael Swell are based on three discoveries. mation on the San Rafael Swell is considered to be of
First, G. N. Pipiringos (oral commun., 1974) recognized late middle Callovian Age. The overlying Summerville
that the Curtis Formation in the San Rafael Swell is Formation is considered to be only slightly younger, as
identical with the Pine Butte Member of the Sundance shown by its gradation downward and laterally into the
Formation in Wyoming (Pipiringos, 1968, p. D23) and Curtis Formation (Baker, 1946, p. 86) and by the an
with the lower member of the so-called Curtis Formation gular unconformity at its top. This unconformity presum
and Stump Sandstone of northern Utah, as used by ably correlates in part with the regional unconformity at
Thomas and Krueger (1946, p. 1278, 1279). All these the base of the Redwater Shale Member of the Sundance
units occupy the same stratigraphic position above the Formation. The basal limestone of the Carmel Formation
Entrada Sandstone, or equivalent units. This identifi on the San Rafael Swell is dated as latest Bajocian on
cation means that the Curtis Formation of the San Rafael the basis of fossils. Consequently, the beds overlying this
Swell must be older than early Oxfordian, because the unit, but below the Curtis Formation, are dated as Bath-
equivalent beds in Wyoming and in northern Utah dis- onian to early or early middle Callovian on the basis of
conformably underlie the lower Oxfordian Redwater stratigraphic position. Furthermore, the lower part of
Shale Member of the Sundance Formation and of the the Carmel Formation, between its basal limestone beds
and its varicolored gypsiferous beds, bears lithologic re tion, but otherwise it maintains its lithologic character
semblances to the Boundary Ridge and Watton Canyon istics, except for the presence of a few sandstone lenses.
Members of the Twin Creek Limestone (Imlay, 1967b, Such lenses occur (1) at its base where the Moab Member
p. 40, 44, 49), which members are now dated as early to intertongues, (2) in a fairly persistent marker bed a little
middle Bathonian. above its middle (Wright and others, 1962, fig. 2, 3;
The Jurassic formations exposed east of the San Ra- Shawe and others, 1968, p. A45), (3) at its top in south
fael Swell, in easternmost Utah and westernmost Colo western Colorado where the Junction Creek Sandstone
rado, have been studied in considerable detail (Mc- intertongues (Shawe and others, 1968, p. A49, A50; Ek
Knight, 1940; Dane, 1935; Baker, 1946; Wright and ren and Houser, 1965, p. 12, 13; Stokes, 1944), and (4)
others, 1962; Craig and others, 1955; Cater and Craig, where a similar sandstone called the Bluff Sandstone in
1970; Shawe and others, 1968, Ekren and Houser, 1965) tertongues in southeastern Utah. (See summary in Craig
but are difficult to correlate and date precisely because and others, 1955, p. 132-134.)
fossils are scarce in all of them except the continental Considerably different statements have been made
Morrison Formation. Lateral tracing of beds shows, concerning the nature of the boundary between the Mor
however, that the lower, limestone-bearing part of the rison Formation and the underlying Summerville For
Carmel Formation thins eastward and pinches out a little mation, or equivalent units, as exposed along the Utah-
east of the mouth of the San Rafael River (Baker, 1946, Colorado border (fig. 28). Northeast of Moab, Utah, in
p. 71; McKnight, 1940, p. 87; Wright and others, 1962, the Salt Valley anticline area, as at Dewey Bridge, the
p. 2058). The upper varicolored gypsiferous part of the contact is sharp, slightly irregular, and persistent (Dane,
Carmel Formation also thins gradually eastward, and 1935, p. 112). In the adjoining area in western Colorado,
east of the Green River in east-central Utah, it passes as at John Brown Valley, the contact as mapped is re
into reddish-brown siltstone and silty sandstone that ported to be gradational within 15 feet or less (Cater and
most geologists have mapped as the eastern part of the Craig, 1970, p. 40). Nonetheless, the absence of the Sum
Carmel Formation but that are now called the Dewey merville Formation locally along crests of some salt an
Bridge Member of the Entrada Sandstone (Wright and ticlines could be due to erosion during early Morrison
others, 1962, p. 2059). This member pinches out near the time (Cater and Craig, 1970, p. 34) or to nondeposition
State line west of Grand Junction, Colo., but persists during Summerville time. To the southeast in the Slick
southeastward as a thin unit into southwestern Colo Rock area, the same contact is disconformable at most
rado. places (Shawe and others, 1968, p. A58). Still farther
East of the San Rafael Swell, the Entrada Sandstone south in the Ute Mountains area, as at McElmo Canyon,
consists of three members (fig. 28). The basal Dewey the contact of the Morrison Formation with the Junction
Bridge Member is conformably overlain by the Slick Creek Sandstone is locally disconformable and locally
Rock Member, and the Moab Member is locally present gradational (Ekren and Houser, 1965, p. 13). If these
at the top of the formation. The Entrada Sandstone of statements are correct, then deposition of the Summer
the San Rafael Swell extends eastward as the Slick Rock ville Formation was succeeded in places directly by dep
Member, a massive, crossbedded sandstone that thins to osition of the Morrison Formation while erosion took
the east and southeast (Wright and others, 1962, p. place in other places nearby.
2062). The overlying Moab Member consists of massive,
white, crossbedded sandstone that is at least 100 feet
SOUTHWESTERN UTAH AND NORTHERN ARIZONA
thick near Moab but that thins laterally away from there
into ledge-forming sandstone (Baker and others, 1927, Along the Utah-Arizona border the lowermost Ju
p. 804; Dane, 1935, p. 94). It is reported to intertongue rassic may be represented by units of continental origin
laterally in places with the Summerville Formation, in that from the base up include the Moenave Formation,
places to grade downward or laterally into the Slick Rock the Kayenta Formation, and the Navajo Sandstone (fig.
Member, and in other places to rest on an erosion surface 29). The Moenave Formation rests unconformably on the
at the top of the Slick Rock Member (McKnight, 1940, Chinle Formation, is mostly of fluvial origin, comprises
p. 89^97; Wright and others, 1962, p. 2063-2067; Cater three members, and drained southwestward. Of these
and Craig, 1970, p. 30). In places where the Moab Mem members, the lowermost, or Dinosaur Canyon Sand
ber is absent, the Slick Rock apparently is overlain con stone Member, consists of reddish-orange to brown sand
formably by the Summerville Formation. stone and siltstone (Harshbarger and others, 1957, p. 13;
The Summerville Formation east of the Green Kiver Wilson, 1965, p. 39); the middle, or Whitmore Point
in eastern Utah and in westernmost Colorado includes Member, consists mostly of gray to red siltstone and
beds that are probably equivalent to the Curtis Forma clay stone but includes some limestone (Wilson, 1967);
and the upper, or Springdale Sandstone Member, con sand in the Dunlap Formation may have been derived
sists mostly of pale-red to brownish-red sandstone but from the Navajo Sandstone by erosion. If this premise is
includes some siltstone and conglomerate. The Kayenta correct, the Navajo should be at least as old as Sinemu
Formation consists of light-gray to reddish-orange sand rian.
stone and siltstone that becomes finer grained and thicker The Temple Cap Sandstone was originally described
south westward, intertongues southwestward with the by Gregory (1950) as a member of the Navajo Sandstone.
adjoining members, is mostly of fluvial origin (Wilson, It was subsequently made a separate formation (Fred
1965, p. 40, 42), and drained southwestward. The Navajo Peterson and G. N. Pipiringos, unpub. data, 1977). It
Sandstone consists mostly of highly crossbedded sand consists of two facies, or members, which extend about
stone, includes some beds of cherty limestone, and is 75 miles (120 km) to the east from Gunlock, Utah, and
mostly of eolian origin (Harshbarger and others, 1957, p. which pinch out between the Carmel Formation and the
19-25; Wright and Dickey, 1958, p. 173; Stokes, 1963, Navajo Sandstone (fig. 29) a few miles east of Johnson
p. 61; Wilson, 1965, p. 41, 42; Averitt, 1962, p. 17, 18). Canyon. One facies, called the White Throne Member,
The Moenave Formation occupies the same strati- consists of 170 feet (52 m) or less of pale-red to gray
graphic position as the Lukachukai Member of the Win- crossbedded sandstone that is identical with the sand
gate Sandstone, which lies to the east and northeast and stone of the underlying Navajo Sandstone but that is
which consists mostly of eolian, large-scale crossbedded separated from it by 5 to 25 feet (1.5 to 7.6 m) of softer
sandstone (McKee and MacLachlan, 1959, p. 22, pi. 8, red or gray siltstone and silty sandstone. The other fa
figs. 5, 6, table 1; Wright and Dickey, 1958, p. 172, 173). cies, called the Sinawava Member, consists of 372 feet
The change from the eolian Wingate Sandstone to the (113 m) or less of red to gray, flat-bedded sandstone,
fluvial Moenave Formation in southern Utah takes place silty sandstone, mudstone, and some bedded gypsum.
within a few miles along a northwest-trending zone, This facies changes eastward from red to gray at Mount
which is an extension of that mapped by Harshbarger Carmel Junction. To the west, the White Throne Mem
and others (1957, p. 3, 10) in the Navajo Indian Reser ber intertongues with the Sinawava Member near the
vation in northern Arizona. Hurricane Cliffs on the west side of Zion National Park,
These formations are possibly of Early Jurassic age, and to the east it overlies a thin extension of the Sina
as suggested (1) by the presence of an unconformity be wava Member as far east as their pinchout near Johnson
tween the Moenave and the underlying Chinle Forma Canyon, about 10 miles (16 km) east of Mount Carmel.
tion of Triassic age; (2) by an unconformity between the The formation contains small, rounded chert granules at
Navajo Sandstone and the overlying Temple Cap Sand its base, and rests sharply on the Navajo Sandstone.
stone of early to early middle Bajocian Age; and partic Criteria that suggest an unconformity at the base of
ularly (3) by palynomorphs dated as of late Sinemurian the Temple Cap, according to Peterson and Pipiringos
to early Pleinsbachian Age in the basal 15 feet (5 m) of (unpub. data, 1977), are (1) lack of interfingering be
the Whitmore Point Member of the Moenave Formation tween the Temple Cap and Navajo Sandstones; (2) clear
(Peterson and others, 1977, p. 755). Acceptance of this separation of these formations by a continuous surface;
dating must await adequate description and illustration (3) broad irregularities at the base of the Temple Cap
of the fossils and confirmation by other paleontologists. that are interpreted as an expression of erosional relief
At present, the formations in question are dated by the developed on the Navajo prior to Temple Cap deposition;
U.S. Geological Survey as Triassic (or Triassic?) and (or) and (4) a thick bleached zone at the top of the Navajo at
Jurassic (or Jurassic?). most places, which is interpreted as alteration product of
This evidence suggests that the unconformity at the ground-water seepage into the upper part of the Navajo
base of the Moenave Formation is possibly of Hettangian during a long erosion interval. These criteria and rela
Age, that the unconformity at the top of the Navajo tionships show that the Temple Cap Sandstone is not a
Sandstone is at least partly of late Toarcian Age, and tongue of the Navajo Sandstone and should not have
that the Kayenta Formation and Navajo Sandstone may been considered a member of that formation by Gregory
have been deposited during Piiensbachian and Toarcian (1950, p. 89) and later workers (Wright and Dickey,
time. Furthermore, the Navajo Sandstone may be cor 1963a, b; Thompson and Stokes, 1971; Lewis and others,
related with the Dunlap Formation of western Nevada 1961).
on the basis of the presence in common of nearly identical The Carmel Formation of southwestern Utah be
crossbedded quartz sandstone (Stanley, 1971, p. 467- tween Gunlock and Johnson Canyon consists of four
475), on a vsimilar stratigraphic position, and on the main members (fig. 29) that from base to top were called the
source area of both formations being an uplifted north limestone member, the banded member, the gypsiferous
ward-trending area in central Nevada. However, the member, and the Winsor Member by Cashion (1967). The
same members were also described by Gregory (1950, p. sist of the same kinds of chert that are formed in authi-
92-98) under the names Carmel Formation, Entrada genic chert nodules in the Navajo Sandstone; and (2) the
Sandstone, Curtis Formation, and Winsor Formation, upper few feet of the Navajo Sandstone at many places
respectively. We now know, however, that rocks called contains crevices that they interpret as fossil joints
the Entrada Sandstone and the Curtis Formation by weathered out prior to deposition of the Page Sandstone.
Gregory are much older than those formations at their The Entrada Sandstone of south-central Utah, where
type localities in central Utah (Imlay, 1967b, p. 20, 33, fully developed, as at Pine Creek near Escalante, con
40, 44). Of the four members, the limestone member is of sists of three members, according to Fred Peterson and
most importance for age determinations because it is the Pipiringos (unpub. data, 1977). At Pine Creek, the upper
only Jurassic member in southern Utah that contains member consists of white crossbedded sandstone, the
datable marine fossils. Also, its lower 20-120 feet (6- middle, of red to white to light-green flat-bedded silty
36.5 m) of pink to red siltstone and claystone basally con sandstone and mudstone, and the lower, of red, thick-
tains angular chert pebbles from Zion National Park bedded, flat-bedded silty sandstone. The upper member
eastward, but west of the park, the same unit contains becomes truncated southward in Utah, but the middle
granules of rounded chert and quartz. Its lower contact, and lower members persist considerably beyond the lim
according to Fred Peterson and Pipiringos (unpub. data, its of the upper member and become sandier and more
1977) is sharply defined and bevels out the Temple Cap crossbedded both westward in Utah and southward in
Sandstone to the east near Johnson Canyon. Arizona. At some places, as at Big Hollow Wash, Utah,
The fourfold division of the Carmel Formation per and Page, Ariz., the middle member of the Entrada is
sists eastward across southwestern Utah for about 90 overlain unconformably by a light-gray sandstone unit
miles (144 km) with little change except for thinning of 0-44 feet (0-13.4 m) thick, which has a thin red mud-
the lower three members. East of the Little Bull Valley stone bed at its base, and which apparently occupies the
area, however, the Winsor Member grades into the mid same stratigraphic position as the Summerville Forma
dle and upper parts of the upper member of the Carmel tion of central Utah (Fred Peterson, 1974, 1973; Fred
Formation, as described by Fred Peterson and Pipirin Peterson and Barnum, 1973).
gos (unpub. data, 1977). Near the Paria River, the gyp- The Morrison Formation unconformably overlies the
siferous member grades into the lower part of the upper light-gray sandstone at Page and Big Hollow Wash (fig.
member. 29). In areas where the light-gray sandstone is missing,
Also near Little Bull Valley, 8 miles (13 km) south the Morrison rests unconformably on the upper or middle
west of Cannonville, the banded member grades into member of the Entrada Sandstone. The Morrison For
crossbedded to flat-bedded sandstone of the Thousand mation is highly variable in thickness, comprises three
Pockets Tongue of the Page Sandstone (Wright and members of which the lower and upper may be locally
Dickey, 1963a, p. E65, E66; Phoenix, 1963, p. 32, 33; absent, and is overlain unconformably by Cretaceous
Fred Peterson and Pipiringos, unpub. data, 1977). East beds (Fred Peterson and Barnum, 1973; Fred Peterson,
of the Paria River near Cannonville, the lower limestone 1973, 1974; Zeller and Stephens, 1973).
member is termed the Judd Hollow Tongue of the Car The Jurassic formations of southern Utah are corre
mel Formation (Phoenix, 1963). Farther east, this ton lated with formations farther north by some lithologic re
gue grades into flat-bedded sandstone and siltstone that semblances, by their relative stratigraphic positions, and
disappears eastward between two tongues of the Page by the presence of certain species of mollusks in the mid
Sandstone. Evidently, the Page Sandstone, where fully dle to upper parts of the limestone member of the Carmel
developed, as at its type locality near Page, Ariz., is Formation. These mollusks have been found in expo
equivalent to both the limestone member and to the sures between Gunlock and the Mount Carmel-Glendale
banded member of the Carmel Formation farther west. area and also in a thin limestone unit 12-20 feet (3.6-
The Page sandstone, as defined by Fred Peterson 6 m) above the base of the Carmel Formation at Deep
and Pipiringos (unpub. data, 1977), is as much as 291 feet Creek north of Escalante and at Hells Backbone north
(89 m) thick about 10 miles (16 km) south-southwest of west of Boulder, Utah.
Page, Ariz. It consists mostly of gray, cliff-forming, At least the upper three-fourths of the limestone
crossbedded sandstone, contains angular, red to gray member of the Carmel Formation between Gunlock and
chert pebbles at its base and, locally, higher, and rests Mount Carmel is dated as late Bajocian. That age is
sharply and unconformably on the Navajo Sandstone shown by the presence or association of certain species
along a surface that locally has a relief of as much as 37 of pelecypods that in Idaho and Wyoming are character
feet (11 m). According to Fred Peterson and Pipiringos istic of the Rich Member of the Twin Creek Limestone
(unpub. data, 1977) the evidence for an unconformity is and are not known from higher or lower members (Im
strengthened by two facts: (1) the angular pebbles con lay, 1964d, p. C3; 1967b, p. 14,15, 31, 33). Near Gunlock,
JURASSIC UNCONFORMITIES 99
for example, correlation with the Rich Member is shown mostly of light-gray crossbedded sandstone but includes
by the presence of Gervillia! montanaensis Meek, which some thin beds of dark-brownish-red mudstone or sand
occurs about 150 feet (46 m) above the base of the lowest stone. Its middle 274 feet (84 m) consists mostly of or
limestone beds and also about 323 feet (98 m) higher, or ange-brown to reddish-brown or white flat-bedded sand
50 feet (15 m) below the eroded top of the member. Vau- stone but includes some crossbedded sandstone. Its upper
gonia conradi Meek, not known below the Rich Member, 302 feet (92 m) consists mostly of light-gray to greenish-
was found 74 miles (12 km) east of Gunlock in the Dia gray crossbedded sandstone but includes some fairly thin
mond Valley sequence 60-^80 feet (18-24 m) above the beds of flat-bedded sandstone and is overlain unconform
lowest limestone bed, and 9 miles (14.5 km) northwest of ably by the Dakota Sandstone. This upper unit repre
Hurricane near the Danish Ranch about 60 feet (18 m) sents the Cow Springs Sandstone of Harshbarger and
above the lowest limestone bed. others (1957, p. 49-51), but it is considered by Fred Pe
These fossil occurrences and others, as listed previ terson (1974, p. 467) to be a bleached-out upper part of
ously (Imlay, 1964d, p. C8, C9, C13; Sohl, 1965, p. D5, the Entrada Sandstone, such as occurs in many sections
localities 8-12, 33-38 on p. D6, D7), show that only in northern Arizona and southern Utah.
the lower one-fourth to one-fifth of the limestone mem
ber could be older than the Rich Member. Beds equiva MIDCONTINENT REGION
lent to the Sliderock Member of the Twin Creek Lime
stone could only be represented by the lowest 50-150 The only Jurassic deposit identified to date in the
feet (15-46 m) of unfossiliferous limestone of the lime middle part of the continent is in the center of the Mich
stone member and by the underlying gypsiferous red igan basin. It consists of 100-400 feet (30-120 m) of red
sandy siltstone beds at the base of the Carmel Forma clay, shale, sandstone, and some gypsum. The deposit
tion. Such a correlation seems most likely for the thickest has lenticular bedding, rests on Pennsylvanian and Mis-
sequences of the member as exposed from Gunlock east sissippian rocks, contains spores identified as Kimmer-
ward to Pintura and thence northeastward to Shurtz idgian in age, and presumably is entirely continental
Creek about 6 miles (10 km) south of Cedar City. If this (Cohee, 1965). Its age apparently coincides with that of
correlation is correct, then the unconformably underly the Morrison Formation in Montana and the Dakotas.
ing Temple Cap Sandstone should be of about the same
age as the Gypsum Spring Formation of Wyoming and
adjoining States, which is of early to early middle Bajo-
cian Age, only a little older than the Sliderock Member. JURASSIC UNCONFORMITIES
Similarly, on the basis of stratigraphic position, the
banded member of the Carmel Formation, and its equiv A major unconformity representing more than the
alent Thousand Pockets Tongue of the Page Sandstone, lower half of Jurassic time occurs throughout the north
should correlate with the Boundary Ridge Member of the ern and western parts of the Gulf region as far south as
Twin Creek Limestone and should be of early Bathonian Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico (figs. 21, 30). This uncon
Age. The overlying upper part of the Carmel Formation formity probably continued into early Callovian time, on
in southwestern Utah should correlate with the higher the basis of the probability that the overlying saline beds
members of the Twin Creek Limestone and should be of (Louann Salt, Werner Formation, and Minas Viejas For
middle Bathonian to early Callovian Age. mation) were deposited at the same time as similar saline
Southeastward from Page, Ariz., according to Fred beds in southeastern Mexico, where conditions were un
Peterson (1974, p. 467; oral commun., 1974), the Page favorable for salt deposition before late Callovian time
Sandstone pinches out in about 15 miles (24 km), the (Imlay, 1943a, p. 1438, 1508-1510; 1953c, p. 31; Vinie-
Morrison Formation, in about 30 miles (48 km), and the gra 0., 1971, p. 480, 484).
underlying gray sandstone of Romana Mesa, in about 45 Farther south, in the Huasteca area of eastern Mex
miles (72 km). As a result, at Cow Springs, about 50 ico, an unconformity of such magnitude is not recogniz
miles (80 km) southeast of Page, the Jurassic is repre able except locally on certain uplifts. Instead, the same
sented only by the Carmel Formation and the Entrada time interval is represented by (1) an unconformity of
Sandstone. Peterson noted that the Carmel Formation Hettangian Age, (2) marine and plant-bearing deposits
at Cow Springs is 188 feet (57 m) thick, consists of flat- of Sinemurian and questionably of early Pliensbachian
bedded sandstone, silty sandstone and mudstone, is Age, (3) an unconformity of Pliensbachian to Toarcian
mostly reddish brown, includes some angular chert peb Age caused by orogenic activity, (4) continental beds of
bles at its base, and rests unconformably on the Navajo Bajocian to Bathonian Age, (5) an unconformity of latest
Sandstone. At the same place, the Entrada Sandstone is Bathonian and earliest Callovian Age, and (6) marine
773 feet (236 m) thick. Its lower 197 feet (60 m) consists beds of late early Callovian and younger ages. Bajocian
Southwest Oregon and

northwest California
FIGURE 30.—Jurassic unconformities in Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Coast regions. Blank spaces indicate that marine strata are present; vertical
lines indicate that strata are missing; left-diagonal lines indicate that strata are not exposed; right-diagonal lines indicate lack of fossil
data.
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Western interior region

Swift
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Stage and basin, Quadrang Canyon, area, Quarry, Wash, Junction,
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Wyoming
eastern north-central northeast central southern
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Montane Idaho Utah Utah Utah
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assic Pliensbachian
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FIGURE 31.—Jurassic unconformities in western interior region. Blank spaces indicate that marine strata are present; vertical lines indicate
that strata are missing.
and Bathonian continental beds in the Huasteca area cor zoic and Triassic rocks and by periodic uplift of that is
relate fairly well in time with similar plant-bearing beds land in early Pliensbachian time and later, perhaps
in the States of Guerrero and Oaxaca in southern Mexico accompanied by variations in sea level.
and with the plant-bearing San Cayetano Formation in Six unconformities have been definitely identified in
Cuba. The fact that beds of Kimmeridgian Age locally the Jurassic sequences of the western interior region
rest on beds of Sinemurian to possible earliest (fig. 31) (Pipiringos, 1968, p. DIG, Dll). These, from old
Pliensbachian Age suggests that certain areas were is est to youngest, represent (1) the later part of the Early
lands from Middle Pliensbachian to late Oxfordian time, Jurassic, (2) the middle part of the middle Bajocian, (3) a
or that erosion occurred in late Oxfordian time, or that small part of the middle Callovian locally in Utah, (4)
both things may have happened. most of the late Callovian and locally some of the Oxford
The erogenic activity associated with the unconform ian, (5) a small part of late early or early middle Oxford
ity of Pliensbachian to Toarcian Age (Imlay, Cepeda and ian locally in the middle part of the region, and (6) at
others, 1948, p. 1750-1753; Carrillo Bravo, 1965, p. 85, least part of the later Tithonian. Complete withdrawal of
87, 92-95) suggests that the unconformity developed marine waters took place during the development of the
mainly during Pliensbachian time and may be areally first, second, fourth, and sixth unconformities listed. The
more extensive in the Gulf region than is now realized. lowest unconformity formed during the late Early Jur
Also, it may correlate roughly with an unconformity of assic, as shown by its position below marine beds of early
early Pliensbachian Age in eastern Oregon, southwest Bajocian Age and above the continental Navajo Sand
ern Alberta, arctic Canada, and Alaska (see fig. 13); with stone, which is now dated as probably Early Jurassic
uplift of an area in eastern Nevada from which the sands (Fred Peterson, written commun., 1976) on the basis of
of the Dunlap Formation were derived (Muller and Fer- the palynoflora present in the older Moenave Formation.
guson, 1939, p. 1616-1622); and with intrusion of dia The highest unconformity formed during the latest Jur
base sills (Palisade disturbance) into continental beds of assic, and it could represent all or only part of the Ti
Sinemurian Age in New Jersey (Dallmeyer, 1975). thonian. Because it formed on continental beds, it prob
In addition, several minor unconformities of Late ably represents more time than the unconformity at the
Jurassic age have been recognized in the northern and top of some marine Jurassic sequences in the southeast
western parts of the Gulf region. These include (1) a ern United States and in west Texas. It represents con
probable minor disconformity of middle Oxfordian Age siderably less time than the unconformity (Nevadan or
formed after deposition of the main saline beds (Louann ogeny) formed after deposition of the Mariposa and Galice
Salt) by a swiftly transgressing sea (Norphlet Forma Formations in parts of California and Oregon.
tion) which reworked the surface of the saline beds and All these Jurassic unconformities in the western in
transgressed beyond; (2) a minor disconformity of early terior region could result from lowering of sea level by a
Kimmeridgian Age formed locally in Mexico and possibly few hundred feet or less, or from a slight elevation of the
also in the southeastern United States, at the same strat- region, or from a rise of landmasses in eastern Nevada,
igraphic position as a nearby gypsiferous red-bed unit western Utah, and central Idaho that blocked the en
(Olvido Formation and Buckner Formation); and (3) a trance of marine waters from the west. Of these uncon
disconformity formed locally at the top of the Jurassic in formities, only that of late Callovian Age can be matched
the Gulf region of the United States. definitely in the Pacific Coast region. In addition, the un
In the Pacific Coast region, the entire Jurassic is rep conformity of middle Bajocian Age, corresponding
resented by unconformities at one place or another (fig. roughly to the European zone Otoites sauzei, may be
30). Of those unconformities found in two or more places, present locally in British Columbia and southwestern Al
some represent Hettangian, early Pliensbachian, Bath berta, as suggested by the rarity of ammonites charac
onian, early Callovian, and late Callovian time. Others teristic of that zone (Imlay, 1973, p. 34).
begin in middle Bajocian, middle Callovian, and late
Kimmeridgian time and continue through the remainder
of the Jurassic. These unconformities lack continuity
over large distances, owing to westward shifting of dep- JURASSIC GEOLOGIC HISTORY
ositional troughs during Jurassic time, to deposition in
waters ranging from very shallow to very deep, to dis ATLANTIC COAST REGION
tances from sources of sediment, and to the presence of
islands rising from waters of different depths. Thus, the Deposition of marine Jurassic sediments along the
unconformable relationships noted in the Suplee-Izee Atlantic Continental Shelf of the United States has not
area of eastern Oregon (fig. 30) were produced by west been demonstrated by fossils. Nonetheless, seismic evi
ward onlap of a sea across an island composed of Paleo dence suggests that fairly thick Jurassic sequences were
JURASSIC GEOLOGIC HISTORY 103
deposited at least on the outer part of the shelf. This marine connection eastward with the Atlantic Ocean dur
elusion is supported by the presence of (1) about 6,500 ing Early Jurassic time were based on the close similari
feet (1,980 m) of Lower to Upper Jurassic beds in the ties between the Sinemurian ammonite faunules in
Scotia Shelf area and at least 20,000 feet (6,100 m) of southern Mexico and those in Europe (Burckhardt, 1930,
such beds in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, (2) p. 20; Erben, 1957b, p. 37, 38). It is now known, how
8,000-16,000 feet (2,440 to 4,880 m) of Middle to Up ever, that the Early Jurassic ammonite succession is re
per Jurassic beds in Cuba, and (3) a thin Upper Jurassic markably similar throughout the world from Hettangian
sequence in the Hatteras Abyssal Plain. As the last men to early Pliensbachian time (Imlay, 1971, p. 712-713; Im-
tioned sequence contains organisms characteristic of fairly lay and Detterman, 1973, p. 21) and is fairly similar until
deep waters (Luterbacher, 1972, p. 575; Bernoulli, 1972, Bajocian time.
p. 813; Bernoulli and Jenkyns, 1974, p. 145, 146), the Likewise, continental sedimentation may not have
Jurassic sea probably extended considerably farther west. taken place within the Gulf of Mexico drainage area dur
Also, the marked lithologic and stratigraphic differences ing Early Jurassic time. The best evidence for its occur
among these sequences suggest that the history of Ju rence consists of plant-bearing black shale within and di
rassic sedimentation probably differed considerably from rectly overlying Sinemurian marine beds in the Huasteca
place to place. All available evidence indicates that the area of east-central Mexico (Burckhardt, 1930, p. 20; Er
North Atlantic formed near the end of the Triassic, was ben, 1956a, p. 129-132; 1957a, p. 45). That area, how
much smaller during the Jurassic than today, was the ever, may have drained southward or southwestward
site of salt deposition at one or more times, and was rather than eastward, because the associated marine
flooded extensively by marine water of normal salinity beds were deposited in an arm of the Pacific Ocean. If
from Oxfordian to Tithonian time, coincident with exten that is true, then at least the western part of the Gulf of
sive flooding in the Gulf of Mexico region (Gordon, 1974, Mexico may not have existed during Sinemurian and
p. 138; Berggren and Hollister, 1974, p. 130, 131, 176). early Pliensbachian time. Such a possibility is supported
by the fact that the Jurassic beds in the Huasteca area
GULF OF MEXICO AND NEARBY REGIONS
were folded, faulted, intruded by igneous rocks, meta
morphosed, and then partially eroded away before dep
Jurassic marine sedimentation in or near the Gulf re osition of the overlying continental Cahuasas Formation
gion began at different times in different places. Marine of Bajocian to Bathonian Age (Carrillo Bravo, 1965, p.
sedimentation in Cuba probably began during the Bath- 85-87, 92-95).
onian, but possibly as early as Bajocian. In the southern During Bajocian time, and most or all of Bathonian
United States and northeastern Mexico, deposition prob time, marine sediments were not deposited within the
ably began during the Callovian, but possibly a little ear drainage basin of the Gulf of Mexico, as far as is known.
lier. Sedimentation started in north-central Mexico dur Well outside that basin, however, those stages are rep
ing the middle Oxfordian, in northern Chihuahua and resented in part in western Oaxaca and northeastern
western Texas during the Kimmeridgian, and in the Guerrero by marine beds deposited in an embayment of
Huasteca area of east-central Mexico during the Sine- the Pacific Ocean (see fig. 6, 7, 14, and 21). Within the
murian. In eastern Veracruz in east-central Mexico, ma Gulf drainage basin, the latest Bathonian is possibly rep
rine deposition probably began as early as late Bathon- resented by some small undescribed ammonites resem
ian and definitely as early as Callovian. In south-central bling Wagnericeras, which were obtained from the sub
Mexico in the State of Guerrero, deposition definitely be surface near Tampico in east-central Mexico (Cantii
gan as early as Pliensbachian and probably much earlier. Chapa, 1969, p. 5). Also, in western Cuba, the upper
During Early Jurassic time, marine sedimentation 2,000 feet (610 m) of the enormously thick San Cayetano
probably did not take place within the drainage basin of Formation has furnished a few marine pelecypods that
the Gulf of Mexico. Field studies in southern Mexico and could be of Bathonian Age, providing the overlying Azu-
drilling in the region of Veracruz both show that an car Member contains Callovian microfossils as reported
Early Jurassic sea entered southern Mexico from the Pa (Meyerhoff, 1964, p. 151).
cific Ocean and extended north jor northeast but did not During Bajocian and Bathonian time, continental sed
quite reach the area of the present Gulf of Mexico. Con iments were deposited widely in the Gulf region and in
sequently, marine Sinemurian and questionable lower nearby areas. In the Tampico and Huasteca areas of east-
Pliensbachian beds exposed in the Huasteca area pinch central Mexico, some thick red to gray clastic non-marine
out eastward in the subsurface against ancient schist, beds, called the Cahuasas Formation, were laid down
gneiss, and granite in eastern Veracruz (Viniegra 0., from middle Bajocian to at least middle Bathonian time
1971, p. 484; Lopez Ramos, 1972, sections A-A' and on top of plant-bearing beds of early Bajocian Age (Car
B-B'; 1974, p. 381-386). Earlier studies favoring a rillo Bravo, 1965, p. 87-88; Erben, 1956a, p. 137;
1956b, p. 43). In Cuba, those stages are probably repre Florida. The fact that the Callovian sea in east-central
sented by thousands of feet of plant-bearing beds in the Mexico was bounded on the east by a barrier or uplift
San Cayetano Formation. suggests that most of the marine water that furnished
Outside the Gulf region, in northeastern Guerrero the salt came from the east.
and western Oaxaca, some dark-gray to black carbona Some red to varicolored continental beds, called La
ceous plant-bearing shale and coaly beds were deposited Joya Formation, were probably deposited during Callo
during Toarcian to early middle Bajocian time and again vian time in northeastern and north-central Mexico. These
during middle Bathonian time (Erben, 1957a, p. 49-50), beds differ from the Cahuasas Formation by containing
as dated by marine fossils in adjoining beds. Studies of some red-weathering lava, by being much thinner and
the plant fossils have made it possible to assign an early redder, and by not passing downward into plant-bearing
Bajocian date to the basal part of the Cahuasas Forma beds. They could be the same age as that formation, but
tion of east-central Mexico, as mentioned above. The their close geographic proximity in northeastern Mexico
presence of plant fossils and carbonaceous material in to thick salt and gypsum masses, called the Minas Viejas
both east-central and southern Mexico suggests that the Formation, suggests that they were formed at the same
climate was generally warm and humid throughout the time as the saline beds. Presumably, the red sand and
Gulf region during most of the Early and Middle Ju silt in the red beds were derived from areas to the west
rassic. or north, where red lateritic soil accumulated under a hot
During Callovian time, marine sediments probably and seasonably rainy climate. The salt and the red beds
were deposited in Cuba (Meyerhoff, 1964, p. 151; Mey- probably were deposited under a hot and very dry cli
erhoff and Hatten, 1974, p. 1211), but the evidence has mate.
not yet been published. Marine sediments of early to The sequence of marine sediments deposited during
middle Callovian Age were definitely deposited in east- Late Jurassic time were remarkably similar from Ala
central Mexico near the present Gulf of Mexico and may bama westward to north-central Mexico. During the late
represent an embayment of the Gulf (Erben, 1957b, fig. middle to late Oxfordian in offshore areas, the deposits
2). Recent studies, however, strongly favor the theory were mostly limy mud; in nearshore areas, they were
that deposition took place in an embayment that ex limy mud or sand or both, and locally in nearshore areas
tended northeastward from the Pacific Ocean and that they were limy sand and gravel. The upper part of the
was separated from the Gulf at least in part by a land limy mud sequence was deposited in shallow agitated
barrier (Viniegra 0., 1971, p. 484, 492; Lopez Ramos, water, and the lower part, apparently in deeper and
1974, p. 388). rather quiet water.
Thick masses of salt and associated anhydrite prob Seas having unrestricted circulation and normal sa
ably were deposited during middle or late Callovian to linity suddenly became widespread in the Gulf region
early Oxfordian time in various parts of the Gulf region. near the middle of the Oxfordian and gradually expanded
Such an age is suggested by (1) the stratigraphic position until near the end of the Jurassic. At the beginning of
of the salt and anhydrite below normal marine beds of that time interval, the portals from the Atlantic Ocean,
middle Oxfordian to early Kimmeridgian Age, (2) lack of or the Pacific Ocean, or both, suddenly widened and
evidence of any appreciable erosion before the overlying deepened, allowing huge quantities of sea water to flood
normal marine beds were laid down, and (3) lack of any abruptly inland over older Jurassic saline and continental
fossils that are definitely of late Callovian to early beds onto Triassic red beds and Paleozoic rocks. The ex
Oxfordian Age either above or below the saline deposits. tent of the late Oxfordian sea (fig. 10), far beyond the
In particular, the Santiago Formation of east-central present Gulf of Mexico, suggests that either the older
Mexico contains early to middle Callovian ammonites in evaporite basins within the Gulf were dead seas consid
its lower part, late Oxfordian ammonites in its upper erably lower than ocean levels, or that the entire Gulf
part, but apparently no fossils of any kind in its middle basin sank fairly rapidly during the (Jxfordian, or that
part. both conditions existed. The first possibility is favored
Considering the distribution and stratigraphic posi because the sea spread quickly over an area extending at
tions of the main saline masses in the Gulf region, some least 1,500 miles (2,400 km) from east to west, because it
marine waters from both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans reworked the saline beds only slightly as it advanced
probably entered the Gulf at about the same time. The and because it then quickly covered those beds with a
entrance of seawater into the Gulf during salt deposition protective blanket of red to gray mud and sand (Norphlet
probably resulted from some structural movement that Formation) that prevented further erosion. Nonetheless,
either caused a rise in sea level, or a downwarping of the fact that considerable sand and pebbles were shed
landmasses in southern Mexico and between Cuba and into the sea from the north during most of Late Jurassic
time shows that land areas to the north were rising as tinued to the end of Jurassic time offshore but not in
the Gulf basin itself was sinking. The fact that the saline nearshore areas.
deposits of the Gulf region extended at least as far east In summation, the Smackover Formation was depos
as Cuba and probably considerably farther east suggests ited in a transgressive sea that was very shallow and ag
that major tectonic movements allowed normal marine itated nearshore and apparently deeper than wave base
waters from the major oceans to flood smaller basins offshore. The Buckner Formation was deposited in evap-
such as the Jurassic Atlantic basin and the Gulf of oritic basins partially blocked off from the sea by salt
Mexico. anticlines or by local uplifts. The Bossier Formation was
In the Gulf region of the southeastern United States, deposited in moderately shallow waters in offshore areas.
the initial deposits of the rapidly advancing middle Ox- The Schuler Formation was deposited in shallow water
fordian sea were derived mostly from pre-Jurassic rocks that was brackish in part, or perhaps nonmarine in near-
and from Jurassic saline beds across which the sea trans shore areas. It has been interpreted as a mostly regres
gressed. These deposits (Norphlet Formation) were suc sive deposit. Nonetheless, the fact that it extends north
ceeded rather abruptly in offshore areas by dense, finely of the Smackover and Buckner Formations in Arkansas
laminated, silty to shaly, calcareous muds (lower part of (K. A. Dickinson, 1968, p. E10, E14, E23) shows that its
the Smackover Formation) that contain well-preserved lower part, at least, is transgressive with respect to
specimens of the fragile-shelled pelecypod Bositra (not those formations.
Posidonia). Such muds must have been deposited in In north-central and northeastern Mexico, deposits
quiet, toxic waters, as indicated by the fine laminations of limy mud or sand of late middle to late Oxfordian Age
and by the good preservation of the fragile pelecypod were overlain by dark limy mud or clay (La Caja For
shells. However, these waters were not necessarily mation), or by gray to black sand, limy mud, gravel, and
deeper than the lower part of the neritic zone. Also, some coaly beds (La Casita Formation), or by gypsifer-
rapid deepening of the sea at the beginning of Smackover ous red beds and gypsum (Olvido Formation). These
time is indicated by the abrupt change from deposition of gypsiferous beds crop out only in the high mountains of
red mud, sand, and some pebbly beds to the deposition eastern Mexico from Victoria, Tamaulipas, northward to
of laminated beds. eastern Coahuila. They are of particular interest because
In offshore areas in the southern United States, they were deposited at the same time as the Buckner
these laminated limy beds in the lower part of the Formation of the southern United States, they are nearly
Smackover Formation were overlain by gray to black identical lithologically, and they also were deposited as a
mud of the Bossier Formation in late Oxfordian to late narrow lens-shaped body. They must represent a time of
Kimmeridgian time. In some nearshore areas, though, uplift and slight folding, because in areas where they are
the laminated beds were succeeded by limy dense to oo absent, the Oxfordian beds are generally overlain discon-
litic mud and sand representing the middle and upper formably by La Casita Formation or by La Caja Forma
parts of the Smackover, which was in turn overlain by tion, which were laid down during the remainder of the
the Buckner Formation in early Kimmeridgian time. The Jurassic.
Buckner consists of red to greenish-gray mudstone, an Of these lithologic units, the Olvido and La Caja For
hydrite, dolomite, oolitic carbonate, and, locally, salt, mations were probably deposited under conditions simi
which were deposited as a rather narrow lens-shaped lar, respectively, to those of the Buckner and Bossier
body now extending from east Texas through Arkansas Formations in the southern United States. La Casita
to Alabama. Formation was deposited in shallow water or under non-
Deposition of the Buckner and Smackover Forma marine conditions, as was the Schuler Formation. None
tions was succeeded conformably in most nearshore (up- theless, the dark-gray to black color of the La Casita and
dip) areas by deposition of red to gray fine-grained sand the presence of coal beds and considerable carbonaceous
and mud (Schuler Formation), which may have been de material within it contrast with the red to gray colors of
posited in brackish or nonmarine waters. However, the the Schuler Formation and show that the climate on
local thinning or absence of the Buckner Formation over nearby landmasses must have been much more humid
the crests of some salt anticlines may indicate a local dis- during deposition of La Casita Formation. Also, the fact
conformity at the base of the Schuler Formation (Weeks that La Casita Formation in Chihuahua and equivalent
and Alexander, 1942, p. 1475; K. A. Dickinson, 1968, p. beds in west Texas lap considerably beyond older Juras
E13, E23). The Bossier Formation is overlain by marine sic beds onto Permian rocks shows that the formation is
shale and gray sandstone (marine facies of the Schuler distinctly transgressive.
Formation) that become more shaly basinward, suggest Farther south, in the Tampico and Huasteca areas of
ing deeper waters offshore. Deposition apparently con east-central Mexico (fig. 21), the lithologic units of
Oxfordian to Tithonian Age differ considerably from westward shift in depositional sites, which in turn re
those of the same age in northern Mexico. They consist flects major orogenic movements along the western mar
almost entirely of dark-gray to black normal marine gin of the continent.
shale and shaly to thin-bedded limestone. Sandy beds During the Early Jurassic, a shallow to very shallow
and pebbles are uncommon, and the highest unit (Pi- sea existed as far east as the Snake River in eastern Or
mienta Formation) contains thin lenses of chert. Evi egon and nearly as far east in Nevada. Fossil mollusks
dently these beds were deposited as soft limy mud in an from this sea have been found as far west as the Suplee-
open, shallow or fairly shallow sea that received very lit Izee area in east-central Oregon, the Big Bend area in
tle sandy material. Locally within this sea, on platform north-central California, and the Sailor Canyon area a lit
areas or near shore, were deposited bioclastic, oolitic, tle west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada on the North
and coralline reef carbonates (San Andres Member of Ta- Fork of the American River in eastern California. The sea
man Formation) (Cantu Chapa, 1969, p. 8; 1971, p. 34- in Nevada and eastern Oregon continued from latest
36). Triassic time and during Hettangian to Sinemurian times
Still farther south, drill cores from near Chinameca received sediment similar to that deposited during the
and Cerro Pelon, Veracruz, in the Chiapas salt basin, Triassic. In contrast, the lowermost Jurassic sediments
show that deposition of considerable salt and some asso deposited in the Sailor Canyon and Big Bend areas are of
ciated red to black mud was followed by deposition of a Sinemurian Age and were deposited unconformably on
thin unit of red mud and some salt. That in turn was fol Triassic rocks or locally in Sailor Canyon on older rocks.
lowed by deposition of normal marine beds of early Kim- These relationships suggest that the center of the Early
meridgian to early Neocomian Age. Elsewhere in south Jurassic seaway was in western Nevada rather than in
east Mexico, the Upper Jurassic deposits outside the salt eastern California and probably trended northward
basin apparently were mostly red mud. On the Chiapas through eastern Oregon. The fact that no Lower Jurassic
massif, however, the deposition of red mud was inter beds are known in western California and western Ore
rupted briefly by a marine incursion during early Kim- gon does not mean necessarily that an Early Jurassic sea
meridgian time. The deposition of red beds and salt did not also exist there. The absence of these beds, as
masses implies arid conditions during Late Jurassic time, well as the absence of Bajocian and Bathonian beds in
which was a marked climatic change from Early and Mid those areas, could be a consequence of major tectonic
dle Jurassic time when considerable coal and carbona events during Bathonian to early Kimmeridgian time
ceous material was deposited in nearby parts of southern that resulted in the formation of oceanic crust and that
Mexico. Furthermore, the characteristics of the marine either altered or destroyed preexisting sediments.
beds of Kimmeridgian and Tithonian Age in the Chiapas During Bajocian time, the sea covered nearly the
basin indicate that water depth was generally shallow same area as it did during earlier Jurassic time, and as
and that bordering land areas were very low (Viniegra before, it had marine connections both northward into
0., 1971, p. 485-487). Canada and southward into Mexico. In addition, during
the later Bajocian, this sea had marine connections east
PACIFIC COAST REGION ward through Idaho into the western interior region.
The marine sediments deposited near Westgate, Nev.,
The Jurassic marine sequences deposited in the Pa consisted of limy mud and quartz sand; those de
cific Coast region of the United States differ markedly posited in the Santa Ana Mountains of southern Califor
lithologically within fairly short distances, attain enor nia consisted of mud, sand, gravel and some limestone
mous thicknesses, and contain a great deal of volcanic lenses; those deposited in the northern Sierra Nevada
material. In addition, some represent different ages from near Taylorsville consisted of volcaniclastic materials
others that are nearby. These differences are attribut and some limy lenses; those deposited in the big Bend
able to deposition under changing environmental condi area of north-central California consisted of volcaniclas
tions; to the relative positions of the sequences within tic materials, lava flows, and some clastic lime muds; and
rapidly sinking basins; to differing distances from vol those deposited in eastern Oregon consisted of volcani
canic vents, from islands, or from landmasses composed clastic materials, some silty to sandy lime mud, and much
of pre-Jurassic rocks; to westward shifting of deposi- dark clay and silt associated with much fine volcanic ma
tional sites during Jurassic time; and to major post-Ju terial. Most of these sediments, as shown by their fossil
rassic thrust faulting that has brought together se content and lithologic features, were deposited in normal
quences that were originally deposited far apart under shallow marine waters that were much agitated in some
very different environmental conditions. Evidently, the places and were quiet in others. The shallowness of the
changing environmental conditions reflect the gradual sea in the Taylorsville area during Bajocian time is at-
tested to by the faunal content of the Mormon Sandstone Early Callovian sediments in the Izee-Suplee area of
(Crickmay, 1933b, p. 898, 899) and by the presence of a eastern Oregon were deposited on beds of late Bajocian
disconformity below the Mormon. to Bathonian Age. In the Taylorsville area of northeast
Marine beds of Bathonian Age have not been found ern California, they were deposited on beds of probable
in the Pacific Coast region south of eastern Oregon, but Bathonian Age. Elsewhere in California and in western
neither has any physical evidence been found for an un Oregon, the age of the beds underlying Callovian sedi
conformity of that age. In the Taylorsville area in east ments is not known, either because of lack of fossils or
ern California, the Bathonian could be represented by because of thrust faulting. As the age of the Rogue For
about 1,300 feet (396 m) of volcanic breccia and tuff be mation in southwestern Oregon is based on its strati-
tween the Moonshine Conglomerate of early late Bajo- graphic position gradationally beneath beds of late Ox
cian Age and the Hinchman Sandstone of early Callovian fordian Age, its lower part could be as old as Bathonian.
Age. In the Izee area of eastern Oregon, the Bathonian Similarly, the lower part of the Logtown Ridge Forma
is represented within a mudstone-siltstone unit 1,250- tion, or the equivalent Gopher Ridge Volcanics, as ex
2,000 feet (381-610 m) thick that is called the upper posed along the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, could lo
member of the Snowshoe Formation. In that member, cally be of Bathonian Age.
early Callovian ammonites have been collected from its The Callovian sediments in California and Oregon
highest 300-500 feet (91-152 m), Bathonian ammonites, were deposited in rapidly sinking basins, which were re
from its next lower 300-400 feet (91-122 m), and one late ceiving quantities of lava and coarse volcanic material
Bajocian ammonite (Leptosphinctes), from near its base. from vents and volcanoes. Some of the Rogue Formation
That leaves hundreds of feet of beds that could also rep- may represent newly formed oceanic crust, as indicated
regent the Bathonian and uppermost Bajocian. As ma by the presence of lava flows, agglomerates, breccias,
rine Bathonian beds containing ammonites of boreal af tuff, serpentine, and gabbro intrusive rocks. The Log-
finities occur in central British 'Columbia, southern town Ritjge Formation or the Gopher Ridge Volcanics
Alberta, and western Montana, a Bathonian seaway could also locally represent oceanic crust, although a
probably extended from British Columbia southward and somewhat different environment of deposition is indi
southeastward across parts of Washington and Idaho. cated by the presence of ammonites at various levels.
During Callovian time, a sea apparently covered During the Oxfordian to early Kimmeridgian, a sea
most of California, all of Oregon, part of western Idaho, covered much of California west of the crest of the Sierra
and probably most of Washington. During early Callov Nevada, extended northwestward into Oregon, covered
ian time, it also extended eastward through southern at least the northwestern part of Washington, and re
Alberta and probably also through northern Idaho into ceived much volcanic sediment. Another sea of early Ox
the western interior region of the United ^States ,and fordian Age extended sowthwandl from easternmost
Canada. That sea, so far as is known, did'not extend into Washington a short distance into Idaho .and Oregon near
Nevada as did the Bajocian sea but did extend into north the present site of the Snake Hiver and received non-
eastern Oregon where Bajocian beds are unknown. volcanic mudstone, graywacke, and pebbles. Except for
Sediments deposited in this Callovian sea in the Pa the area near the Snake River, highly volcanic marine
cific Coast region are very thick and contain a great deal sedimentation continued from the Callovian into the
of volcanic ejecta such as agglomerate, breccia, lava early Oxfordian. By contrast, the marine sediments de
flows, and ash (see figs. 22,23). Even the finer sediments posited from late Oxfordian to early Kimmeridgian time
deposited as sand, silt, and clay contain much fine vol were mostly dark clay but included some silt, sand, and
canic material. Deposition swas nearly continuous from gravel and only in places included appreciable volcanic
early to middle Callovian *time in eastern Oregon and material. Apparently near the middle of Oxfordian time,
apparently continued through the entire Callovian into volcanism either decreased markedly or shifted far to
early Oxfordian time in parts of California and southwest the west of its position during Callovian or earlier Ox
Oregon. One exception* occurs, however, in the Izee area fordian time. Such a shift is indicated by the presence
of eastern Oregon, where an unconformity has been near Paskenta, Calif., of thousands of feet of mafic vol
found near the middle of beds of early Callovian Age (W. canic rocks (mostly breccias and flows) (Bailey and oth
R. Dickinson and Vigrass, 1965, p. 84). The presence.of ers, 1970, p. C72-C74) conformably below the Knoxville
an unconformity at that position is supported by .the Formation, the base of which is .dated as late Kimmer
much wider distribution of the beds above than below idgian at that place (Jones, 1975).
that position. Thus, the Trowbridge Shale overlaps west At the end of the early Kini<raeridgiaaa, marine sedi
ward onto beds of middle Bajocian Age (Imlay, 19<7JB, p. mentation ceased for the remainder of the Jurassic in
9, 14). areas underlain by the Galice and Mariposa Formations,
as well as in areas a little farther east. Such areas during vada, implies that the landmass in central Nevada was
the remainder of the Jurassic were subjected to uplift, generally low or shed most of its sediment eastward.
folding, igneous intrusion, and much erosion associated These conclusions are of little help in evaluating the
with the Nevadan orogeny. Orogenic activity ceased, kind of climate that existed in the Pacific Coast region
however, by the end of the Jurassic in western Oregon, during Jurassic time. However, the presence of ammo
where the Galice Formation locally was overlain by ma nites that have Mediterranean affinities indicates that
rine sediments of earliest Cretaceous age. the waters were fairly warm. Thus, the Pliensbachian
During the late Kimmeridgian, marine sediments ammonite fauna in eastern Oregon is characterized by
were deposited in areas of northwestern Washington and the families Hildoceratidae and Dactylioceratidae but
northwestern California. During the Tithonian, deposi lacks the Amaltheidae, which is common in northwest
tion took place along a narrow belt whose position is now Europe and from British Columbia northward (Imlay,
shown by fossiliferous beds near the present coast from 1968, p. Cl, C21, C22). The Bajocian ammonites in Or
Baja California to northwest Washington. All this depo egon and California include certain genera that are com
sition took place at least 100 miles (160 km) west of areas mon in Europe but that are as yet unknown in Alaska
in which the Mariposa and Galice Formations were de (Imlay, 1973, p. 31, 36). The Callovian beds in those
posited during the late Oxfordian to the early Kimmer States lack Cadoceras, which is very common from Brit
idgian. Evidently, the deposition of sediments of early ish Columbia northward. Finally, the Tithonian beds of
Kimmeridgian Age coincided with the beginning of the those States contain many ammonites of Mediterranean
Nevadan orogeny in areas underlain by the Mariposa and and South American affinities that are unknown from
Galice Formations and in the Sierra Nevada. British Columbia northward (Imlay and Jones, 1970, p.
Marine sedimentation during late Kimmeridgian to B17-B19).
late Tithonian time varied considerably from place to WESTERN INTERIOR REGION
place, apparently depending on the depth of the sea, the
distance from shore, and the presence or absence of vol During the Jurassic, most of the sediments deposited
canoes or volcanic vents. Some sediments, now repre in the western interior region were derived from border
sented by the Knoxville and Riddle Formations, were ing areas on the southeast and north and from a persist
deposited in shallow to fairly shallow waters as mostly ently rising area in south-central Colorado. Some sedi
nonvolcanic, highly fossiliferous mud, silt, sand, and ments were also derived from the west at certain times.
gravel and locally as limestone lenses. Other sediments, Thus, during late middle to late Bajocian time, and again
now represented by the Dothan and Otter Point For during earliest Callovian time, sand and pebbles derived
mations and by the lower part of the Franciscan assem from a landmass in south-central Idaho were deposited
blage, were deposited in moderately deep to deep waters respectively as part of the Sliderock and Giraffe Creek
as highly volcanic, rather poorly fossiliferous mud, silt, Members of the Twin Creek Limestone (Imlay, 1967b, p.
sand, gravel, chert, volcanic breccias, and lava flows. 22, 23, 26, 30, 50-^53). Later, in the early Oxfordian, a
Deposition of all these sediments continued into Creta northern extension of this landmass was the main source
ceous time. All available evidence suggests that the vol of sand deposited as parts of the Swift Formation and the
canic sequences were deposited at least several hundred Stump Sandstone (Imlay, 1957, p. 481^82; Imlay,
miles west of the nonvolcanic sequences and in much Gardner, and others, 1948). Similarly, the sediments
deeper water but that all marine deposition began at composing the Morrison Formation were derived from
about the same time, after the formation of oceanic crust the west as well as from the south and northeast.
in late Oxfordian to early Kimmeridgian time. During Early Jurassic time, marine sediments were
In summation, Jurassic marine sediments in the Pa not deposited in the western interior of the United States
cific Coast region were deposited in waters ranging from or east of the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains,
very shallow to very deep; involved tremendous thick so far as is known. A southeastward extension of marine
nesses; included a great deal of volcanic material, except waters into northwestern Montana is suggested by the
in the Knoxville Formation of California and the Riddle presence of marine beds of Sinemurian and Toarcian Age
Formation of Oregon; and were deposited in troughs near the International Boundary in southeastern British
whose positions gradually shifted westward. Further Columbia and in southwestern Alberta, but the facies
more, the scarcity of red sediments suggests that dep present indicate deposition in very shallow waters near
osition took place mainly under reducing conditions. The a southeastern shoreline (Frebold, 1969, p. 76, 78, 82,
absence of gypsum and salt deposits implies that lagoonal 84).
conditions did not last long and that shorelines shifted In contrast, continental sediments may have been
frequently. The fact that no sediments were derived deposited, in my opinion, during earliest Jurassic time
from the east, except for the Dunlap Formation of Ne over fairly wide areas in the southern and central parts
of the western interior region. Near the border of Ari ever, suggests that the sea waters were either very shal
zona and Utah, the earliest deposits (Moenave Forma low or were more saline than normal. The characteristics
tion) of possible Early Jurassic age were mostly fluviatile of the sediments indicate that the landmasses bordering
sand and silt. These sediments were succeeded from that the sea were low and that the climate was warm to hot
border area northward to east-central Utah and to south and seasonally humid.
western Colorado by fluviatile sand and silt (Kayenta Near the middle of the middle Bajocian, the sea with
Formation), which were interbedded with some eolian drew westward completely from the western interior re
sand. Next followed deposition of buff to white, conspic gion. It returned to some areas, however, by the late
uously crossbedded sand (Navajo Sandstone) of eolian middle Bajocian (Stephanoceras humphriesianum zone),
origin over the same area as well as in eastern Nevada and by late Bajocian time, it spread over a larger area
and northern Utah. Similar crossbedded sand (Nugget than in the early part of the epoch. This rapid retreat and
Sandstone and Glen Canyon Sandstone) was deposited at readvance of marine waters over such a large area dur
least in part at the same time in northernmost Utah, ing part of middle Bajocian time suggests that the west
northwestern Colorado, southeastern Idaho, and west ern interior region had little relief, was near sea level,
ern and central Wyoming. Its lower part, however, which and consequently was flooded or drained in response to
contains some thin beds of ripple-marked, flat-bedded minor vertical movements of landmasses or of ocean ba
sand and silt, was probably deposited earlier than the sins. The unconformity that developed between flood-
Navajo Sandstone (Reeside, 1957, p. 1480, 1482; Pipi- ings, although representing only a small part of middle
ringos, 1968, p. D16, D17; Poole and Stewart, 1964, p. Bajocian time, could have represented 1 million or 2 mil
D38). lion years. It was sufficiently long for erosion and local
Early in Bajocian time, a very shallow sea entered removal of the Gypsum Spring Formation and equivalent
the western interior region from the west across south beds and for the accumulation of a lag deposit of weath
eastern Idaho, western Wyoming, and northern Utah ered, dark-gray chert nodules on the surface of that for
(fig. 32). It then enlarged itself northeastward through mation. Such nodules were then reworked by the incom
north-central and northeastern Wyoming into the Willis- ing sea and scattered widely.
ton basin of eastern Montana, western North Dakota, The shallow sea that entered the western interior
and adjoining parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The region in late middle to late Bajocian time lasted into
sediments it deposited now comprise the Nesson For earliest Callovian time and even then did not completely
mation of the Williston basin, the Gypsum Spring For withdraw from the region. During the late Bajocian and
mation farther south, and the Temple Cap Sandstone of early Bathonian, it extended eastward across about two-
southwestern Utah. Those sediments consist mostly of thirds of Utah, across the western third and north-cen
gypsum, even-bedded red to green silt and mud, lami tral part of Wyoming, and across most of Montana into
nated or dolomitic lime mud, and some chert nodules and the Williston basin, except for some islands in central
layers. During the advance of the sea across Wyoming Montana. During late Bathonian time, the sea deepened
and Montana, the initial deposits were mainly gypsum and extended even farther east across northern Utah
interbedded with red silt and a little limy mud, but in the and Colorado and across Wyoming into western South
Williston basin they included some salt. These deposits Dakota. It shallowed somewhat during the earliest Cal
are overlain by limy beds, some dark-gray chert, and lovian. It was also shallower in Utah than farther north,
some red silt. In southeastern Idaho, the sediments de as shown by a southward increase in red beds and gyp
posited in the same sea contained much less gypsum and sum, a southward decrease in molluscan species, an ab
much more limy mud and siliceous material (Imlay, 1967b, sence of ammonites south of the northwestern part of the
p. 21). A southward extension of the same sea into south San Rafael Swell in central Utah, and an absence ofGry-
western Utah deposited red, even-bedded silt and gyp phaea south of Thistle in north-central Utah.
sum that to the east passed rather abruptly into The first sediments deposited in the advancing sea
crossbedded sand. Evidently the sea deepened toward during late middle to early late Bajocian time filled in
the west both in Idaho and in Utah. the irregularities of the underlying erosion surface and
The initial sediments of the early Bajocian sea were consequently/varied lithologically within moderate dis
deposited in very shallow, highly saline waters, as shown tances. The initial deposits include normal shallow-water
by an association of gypsum, red mud, silt, and locally marine shale and limestone containing Gryphaea and am
some salt, and by an absence of any marine fossils. More monites (Sliderock Member of the Twin Creek Lime
limy sediments were deposited later in slightly deeper stone), gypsiferous shale (lower member of the Piper
waters, as shown by the presence of some pelecypods, Formation), and massive crossbedded sand (Page Sand
gastropods, echinoid spines, crinoid columnals, and worm stone near Hanna, Utah). Succeeding sediments of latest
tubes. An absence of ammonites in the limy rocks, how Bajocian Age were deposited in slightly deeper water in
MOSTLY
HYPERSALINE
MOSTLY
-pJiYPERSALINE
EARLY BAJOCIAN X / LATE MIDDLE TO LATE BAJOCIAN
MARINE TO HYPERSALINE
AND INTERTIDAL
I"
MOSTLY;
TIDAL
FLA
LATE BATHONIAN TO EARLIEST CALLOVIAN

EARLY BATHONIAN
0 100 200 300 400 500 MILES
|___i ii i___|
0 200 400 600 KILOMETERS
FIGURE 32.—Inferred extent of Jta-assic seas of early Bajocian to earliest Callovian Age in western interior region. Land areas are ruled.
Modified from McKee and others (1956), Frebold (1957), Imlay (0.957),J..A. Peterson (1957), and Springer and others (1966).
broad, fairly uniform basins. Consequently, they main tually cut off the southern part of the sea from marine
tain their lithologic and stratigraphic characteristics over waters to the north teat not from those to the west (fig.
considerable distances. Thus, during latest Bajocian time, 33) (Imlay, 1952b, p. 1745, 1751-1753; 1957, p. 487,
oolitic to dense highly fossiliferous gray lime mud was 490). Southeast, south, and southwest of this island, red,
deposited over nearly the entire seaway from Idaho to even-bedded, fine-grained sandstone, silty sandstone,
South Dakota and from Saskatchewan to southwestern and shale were deposited in very shallow waters along a
Utah. strip 100-150 miles :(liO-240 km) wide. Beds generally
During early Bathonian time, the sea became shal less than 100 feet (30 mDtfchick were deposited (Lak Mem
lower and a little more restricted than in latest Bajocian ber of Sundance Formation) in the eastern and southern
time. It was definitely hypersaline in southernmost Utah, parts of the strip; beds 400-1,800 feet (122-549 m) thick
as shown by an association of red silt and considerable (Preuss Sandstone), in the Twin Creek trough in the
gypsum (banded member of the Carmel Formation). It western part of the strip; and beds more than 400 feet
was definitely of normal salinity in western and north- (122 m) thick (Entrada Sandstone), along the west side
central Montana, as shown by an association of fossilifer of the San Rafael Swell in central Utah.
ous sandstone, siltstone, and limestone. It probably var Red beds deposited along the Idaho-Wyoming bor
ied elsewhere from shallow marine to littoral or lagoonal, der and as far south as the Nephi area in Utah differ from
as shown by an association of variegated siltstone with those to the east and west by having bedded salt and a
silty to sandy limestone and locally a little gypsum. little gypsum in their lower third (Mansfield, 1927, p. 99,
During late Bathonian time, limy mud was deposited 338-340; Spieker, 1946, p. 124; Eardley, 1933, p. 330-
in shallow to moderately shallow marine waters over 334; Hardy, 1952, p. 21, 22, 91). To the west, red beds
most of the western interior seaway as far south as the near Blackfoot and Idaho Falls, Idaho, differ from those
western part of the Uinta Mountains in northern Utah. farther east by having nearly 200 feet (61 m) of fossilifer
Farther south in Utah, the limy mud (Watton Canyon ous marine limestone and red sandstone at about the
and Leeds Creek Members of the Twin Creek Lime same stratigraphic position as the salt. These fossilifer
stone) passes laterally into variegated sand, silt, lime ous limestone and unfossiliferous red sandstone beds ex
stone, and gypsum (Winsor Member and gypsiferous tend eastward as a thin unit to within a few miles of Af-
member of the Carmel Formation), which in places were ton, Wyo. (Irnlay, 1952b, p. 1739-1746; 1957, p. 497).
deposited under hypersaline conditions. Southeastward These red beds were deposited at the same time as
from the Wind River Basin across south-central and some light-colored, crossbedded sands (Entrada Sand
southeastern Wyoming, the limy mud (Stockade Beaver stone) in the Colorado Plateau area, as is shown by inter-
Shale Member of the Sundance Formation) was gradu tonguing and interbedding of the two facies over large
ally replaced entirely from the base upward by oolitic areas (Imlay, 1957, p. 480-490). These relationships
sand (Canyon Springs Sandstone Member of the Sun- show that deposition took place alternately on land and
dance Formation), which was deposited by the south in shallow waters and imply that the bordering land
eastward advancing sea partly in very shallow water and areas were low.
partly in intertidal and supratidal environments. Deep These relations and the lithologic character of the
ening of the sea northwestward across Wyoming is at rocks deposited show that a shallow sea of normal salin
tested by the pelecypod Gryphaea being rare throughout ity existed in eastern Idaho during late early Callovian
central and eastern Wyoming but abundant from the time and perhaps during part of middle Callovian time.
Bighorn Basin northward. This change in abundance co The salt and gypsum were deposited a little farther east
incides roughly with the position of the northeastward- in lagoons or in stagnant water near the shore; the unfos
trending Sheridan arch, as discussed by Wright (1973, p. siliferous, red, silty to fine-grained sandstones were de
13). posited still farther east in Utah, Wyoming, and western
During earliest Callovian time, the sea became shal South Dakota in highly saline rather than in brackish
lower than during late Bathonian time, as shown by dep waters. The red sediments were probably derived mostly
osition of fossiliferous ripple-marked sand throughout from an island in Montana on which lateritic soils had
most of the central part of the western interior region developed under a warm and seasonally rainy climate.
and of nonfossiliferous variegated clay, silt, sand, and The light-colored crossbedded sands that were deposited
some gypsum in central and northern Utah. The deposi at the same time in the Colorado Plateau area presum
tion of fossiliferous chalky limestone in north-central ably were derived from an uplift in west-central or south
Montana at that time shows that marine circulation in ern Colorado, are at least partly eolian in origin, and
the Williston basin was unrestricted. formed under a hot and arid climate.
Near the middle of the early Callovian, a large island This red, even-bedded fine-grained sand and silt of
arose in Montana and northwestern Wyoming that even late early to possible middle Callovian Age was overlain
MARINE HYPERSALIN
TO AND
FHYPERSALINS TIDAL FLATS
—I I
I o NORMAL MARINE
MOSTLY
LH Tr—:
TIDAL HYPER-
FLATS l MOSTLY SALINE
CONTINENTAL AND
LLOVIAN DEPOSITS FLATSJK
l
A
LATE EARLY CALLOVIAN TO EARLY MIDDLE CALLOVIAN >LATE MIDDLE CALLOVIAN
EARLY TO EARLY MIDDLE OXFORDIAN i /

(SOLID LINE) ' /
LATE OXFORDIAN TO EARLY KIMMERIDGIAN/
y LATE CALLOVIAN, ^(DASHED LINE)
0 100 200 300 400 500 MILES
I I II I I
I \ I I
0 200 400 600 KILOMETERS
FIGURE 33.—Inferred extent of Jurassic seas of late early Callovian to early Kimmeridgian Age in western interior region. Land areas are ruled.
Modified from McKee and others (1956), Frebold (1957), Imlay (1957), J. A. Peterson (1957), and Springer and others (1966).
by shallow-water marine, green to gray glauconitic sand, the central and southern parts of the region and was
silt, and clay. In western South Dakota, southern Wyo greatest in central and northwestern Montana in the Belt
ming, and northern Colorado, these glauconitic sedi Island area.
ments (Pine Butte Member of the Sundance Formation) Near the end of the Callovian, a sea entered central
were deposited gradationally on the red Lak Member of Montana and the Williston basin area from the northwest
the Sundance Formation. In north-central and north across southern Alberta. During the early Oxfordian,
eastern Utah, these glauconitic sediments (Curtis For this sea spread eastward into South Dakota, southward
mation) were deposited unconformably in most places on into northwestern Colorado and northern Utah, west
the Preuss Sandstone or on the red earthy facies of the ward across Wyoming into southeastern Idaho, and
Entrada Sandstone. Similar glauconitic sediments in westward in Montana at least as far as the eastern side
southeastern Idaho and in bordering parts of Wyoming of the Sweetgrass arch. At the end of the early middle
and Utah (Curtis Member of the Stump Sandstone) were Oxfordian (Perisphinctes plicatilis zone), the sea with
deposited conformably and gradationally on the Preuss drew northward at least as far as the Williston basin
Sandstone. area, but it expanded westward in Montana as far as the
The sea of Curtis-Pine Butte time must have been Sawtooth Range south of Glacier Park, as shown by the
very shallow except in its westernmost part. This conclu presence ofBuchia concentrica (Sowerby) near the base
sion is based on the presence ofOstrea, Lopha, Lingula, of the Swift Formation in that range. The fossil evidence
and Meleagrinella in the Pine Butte Member of the suggests that the sea in northern Montana persisted un
Sundance, the presence of Ostrea and Meleagrinella in til at least the end of the Oxfordian and possibly into the
the type section of the Curtis Formation on the San Ra- early Kimmeridgian.
fael Swell, and the general scarcity of other pelecypods. The initial retreat of the sea near the middle of the
It is based also on the fact that the glauconitic sediments Oxfordian was followed in western South Dakota, east
of the Curtis Formation on the swell pass laterally south ern and southern Wyoming, northwestern Colorado, and
eastward and grade vertically into unfossiliferous, brown northeastern Utah by a brief readvance, during which a
or gray, locally gypsiferous, even-bedded sandstone, silt- very thin marine unit (Windy Hill Sandstone Member of
stone, and clay (Summerville Formation) that probably the Sundance Formation) was deposited disconformably
originated under lagoonal to highly saline conditions. The on middle Callovian to lower Oxfordian marine beds (Pi
westernmost occurrences of the Curtis Formation were piringos, 1968, p. D23, D25). As this thin marine unit
deposited in slightly deeper waters, as shown by (1) the has not been recognized in north-central Wyoming or in
presence of Gryphaea with Ostrea and Meleagrinella in Montana, it is assumed to have been deposited at the
Salina Creek Canyon east of Salina, Utah (USGS Meso- same time as the upper part of the Oxfordian marine
zoic loc. 21646) and (2) the presence of belemnites and beds lying conformably below the Morrison Formation in
the ammonite Lytoceras in Monks Hollow, about 18 that area.
miles (29 km) southeast of Provo, Utah. The distribution The sea of latest Callovian to Oxfordian Age did not
of these cephalopods indicates that the sea entered from extend south of northern Colorado or northern Utah, so
the west. far as is known. It probably did not enter the western
The age of the Curtis-Pine Butte beds is not pre interior region through either southern Idaho or western
cisely known. It is considered to be middle Callovian be Montana, because the sediments deposited become
cause those beds are overlain unconformably by beds of coarser westward and in western Montana they contain
early Oxfordian Age, grade downward into the Preuss many wood fragments. Also, the age of the basal sedi
Sandstone of early to possibly early middle Callovian ments in Montana changes westward from latest Callo
Age, and contain the pelecypods Vaugonia conradi (Meek vian in the Little Rocky Mountains of central Montana to
and Hayden) and Myophorella montanaensis (Meek), late Oxfordian in the Sawtooth Range of northwestern
which occur elsewhere only in older Middle Jurassic beds Montana. This evidence indicates the presence of a land-
(Imlay, 1967b, p. 14). mass to the west that shed considerable clastic sediment
During Curtis-Pine Butte time, the climate was warm into the sea. In western Montana at least, this landmass
and presumably more rainy than during deposition of the was gradually submerged during the late Oxfordian.
underlying red beds. The marine sediments deposited in the western in
Marine waters withdrew from the western interior terior during latest Callovian and Oxfordian time changed
region at about the end of the middle Callovian. This from mostly silt and clay on the east to mostly glauconi
withdrawal was followed by erosion during the late Cal tic, calcareous sand, sandy coquinoid lime mud, and
lovian at least as far south as the San Rafael Swell in sandy silt on the west (Cobban, 1945, p. 1281-1286;
northeastern Utah (Pipiringos and O'Sullivan, 1978) Imlay, Gardner, and others, 1948; Imlay, 1956a, p. 595-
and probably as far south as northern Arizona (Fred Pe- 597; Pipiringos, 1968, p. D23; Brenner and Davies,
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eastern part of the sea is sharp and is characterized by Andrews, D. I., 1960, The Louann salt and its relationship to Gulf
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INDEX
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Arisphinctes .......................... 24 Bathonian Stage, Alaska ——————19,28,37
Arizona ___________ ._ 17, 96, 109, 113 ammonites and buchias succession
Aalenian time ......_............... 64 Arkansas _______________ 46,47,48,105 in .......------------ 25,37
Abstract -------_-..........-_......_.. 1 Arkellites hudlestoni zone ------__._ 24,26 ammonites of __________________— 28
Acanthopleuroceras .. _.......__. 20,21,58 Arkelloceras ................... 22,23,25,37 arctic region _____---————19,28,37
Acevedites ............................ 36 Arnioceras .. 19, 20, 21, 45, 52, 55, 56, 58, 59, 61 Atlantic Coast ------------- — -___ 4
Acknowledgments .---__-...------_.._. S semicostatum zone ---------------- 20 California ___________ 57, 60, 106, 107
Actinastrea hyatti ..__..__........_.___ 80, 89 Arniotites ............................ 21 Canada __________________ 28, 37, 67, 107
Aegasteroceras ....................._._ 52 Arroyo de San Jose, Baja California ... 51 Colorado _________________ 8&, 109
Afton, Wyo _______________ 111 Arroyo La Mula, Tamaulipas --------- 33 Cuba ________________ 17, 103, 104
Agassiz Prairie Formation (Canada) ._ 58 Artemsia Formation (Cuba) __ 39,44,46 Gulf of Mexico region ——— — ——— 47
Alabama __________.. 46, 47, 48, 104, 105 Arvison Formation ___________________ 54,6. Idaho _____...__-_______ 37, 107
Alaska .____ 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, Ashman Formation (Canada) -------- 58 Mexico _________-.-_---_-— 17, 25, 37,
30, 31, 37, 38, 59, 66, 67 Aspidoceras ........................ 24, 31, 32 39, 49, 50, 51, 52, 99, 103, 104
Alaska Range, Alaska ...___..-......_. 59 Asterocsras ........................ 20, 58, 61 Montana ____ 27, 67, 81, 82, 107, 109, 111
Alaskoceras ............ _...-.___._.. 37 obtusum zone _____________________ 19,20 North Dakota _______ — __— 67
Alberta ____._________ 18,107,108,113 Asthenoceras delicatum ............... 56 Oregon __.--.____ 17, 26, 37, 67, 106, 107
Alberta trough, Montana, Canada .__ 18 Ataxioceras .................... 24, 30, 31, 45 Pacific Coast region ... —— ———102,107
Alsatites . ........ _ _ ____ __ 19, 20, 55 Atlantic Coast region .___——------ 4, 102 South Dakota ______——————85,109
liasicus zone ______________________ 20 Aucella eringtoni ..................... 66 Utah _.______._ 95, 96, 99, 109, 111
Amaltheus .............. ____ 20, 21, 58, 59 Aulacomyella ......................... 31 western interior region ..-- 18, 27, 37, 67
margaritatus ..................... 21 Aulacosphinctes .......... 24,34,35,36,45,63 Wyoming ______________ 85, 109, 111
zone .. — ...___---__-__ 20 Aulacosphinctoides ................ 24,32,57 Bearpaw Mountains, Mont ————--29,80,82
stokesi ........................... 21 Aulacostephanoceras acutiasiodorensis Beaverhead County, Mont ----------— 81
American River, Calif _______.. 57, 106 zone -__.._________ 24,32 Becheiceras --------------------- ——— - 21
Ammon, Idaho ---------_------------ 70 Aulacostephanua eudoxua zone --------- 24, 50 ( Becheiccras) , Liparoceras ........... _ 20
Ammonite sequences, Gulf of Mexico Aztec Sandstone ---------------------- 53 Bedford Canyon Formation --------— 54,61
region ____________________ S4 Azucar Member, Jagua Formation Belt Creek, Mont ______________ 68
Ammonite zones, northwest Europe. See (Cuba) ____...__._ 39,103 Belt Island uplift ______18, 19, 8>0, 81, 113
name of particular zone. Berriasetta ..................-......... 24,34
Ammonites, succession of ........ 19, SI, 103 Berriasian Age _______________________ 63
Amoebites ............................ 25 B Bibliography -_-__--_--. — ___ ———— __ 114
(Amoebites), Amoeboceras .... 31,38,55,60 Big Bend, Idaho -____._ ———— ——— 70
Bacon Ridge, Wyo ..____--.____- 88
dubium, Amoeboceras ............ 24 Big Bend area, California —— 52, 53, 54, 106
Bagley Andesite _..____..__- 54,61
Amoeboceras ............ 25,30,31,38,52,58 Big Hollow Wash, Utah _________ 77,98
Baja California, Mexico ________- 51, 108
alternans ......................... 30 Big Horn County, Wyo ____—————— 71
Bajocian Stage, Alaska ___-19,23,24,67
(Amoebites) .............. 31,38,55,60 Big Snowy Mountains, Mont ... 69, 78, 80, 82
ammonite and buchias succession in . 23, 37
dubium ....................... 24 Bighorn Basin, Wyo ___---————18,80,82,
arctic region -------------------- 37
(Prionodoceras) .................. 25,59 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 111
Arizona ____________--.. 97,99
spiniferum .................... 25 Bighorn Mountains, Wyo., Mont ------ 78, SS,
California __17, 52, 57, 60, 61, 106, 107, 108
Amy Lake, Wash _____________ 66 84, 85, 86, 87
Canada .-.____ 18, 25, 67, 102, 106, 109
Anahuac, Nuevo Leon ________________ 36 Billhook Formation (Canada) -------- 58
Cuba ...____________--. 17, 103, 104
Andiceras ............................ 32 Black Dragon Canyon, Utah -_-- — --- 74, 94
Gulf of Mexico region ------------ 47,48
Androgynoceras ....................... 21 Black Hills, Wyo., S. Dak ____ 83,85,86,87
Idaho ___________ 24, 65, 106, 108, 109
Anhydrite .......... 44, 46, 47, 49, 51, 104, 105 Blackfoot, Idaho _______________ 89, 111
Mexico -. 17, 23, 39, 49, 52, 99, 103, 104, 106
Antlers uplift .._____-...__ 18 Blackfoot Mountains, Idaho ------------ 89
Apoderoceras ......................... 21, 59 Montana _______ 24, 67, 68, 80, 81, 109 Blaine County, Mont ____ ———— ——— 80
Aptian Age -__--____________--_.-_____ 67 Nevada --------_________ 53 Bluff Sandstone ._______—————_- 96
Arapien Shale ..-_.__.__._--.-____.. 74, 94 North Dakota ._________ 67, 78, 109 Bochianites ........................... 36
Arctic region, paleobiogeographic set Oregon ___ 17, 18, 23, 64, 65, 106, 107, 108 Bolson de Judas, Candela district,
ting of _.__--_---.-----.-. 19 Pacific Coast region ______ 37, 102, 106 Mexico _____--------_ — _ 35
Arcticoceras .............. 19, 23, 28, 37, 82, 85 Utah --.__---___- 95, 97, 98, 99, 109 Boaitra ............................... 105
ishmae ........................... 23, 28 western interior region --------18, 24, 67, buchii ............................ 61
Arctoasteroceras ...................... 65 102, 106, 108, 111 Bossier Formation ___-..-————44,47,105
Arctocephalites ........... 19,23,28,37,59,81 Wyoming _________________ 24, 84, 99, 109 Boulder, Utah _________—————— 98
arcticus .......................... 23 Boundary Ridge Member, Twin Creek
Baker County, Oreg _-.._____---- 64,65
elegans ........................... 23,28 Limestone .——————— 70,72,74,
Bald Mountain Formation ------------ 66
greenlandicus --------------------- 23 85, 88, 91, 96, 99
(Cranocephalites) ................. 27 Balsas Portal (Mexico) ________- 52 Bowes Member, Piper Formation ___ 68, 69, 80
Argentina ______________._ 26,50 Banner, Wyo _______-------__ 83,84 Boyden Cave pendant ------ — ------- 53
Arieticeras ........ 20, 21, 45, 55, 56, 57, 58, 65 Barklow Mountain, Oreg ------------- 62 Bridger, Mont ____-.__ —————— - 84
Arietites .................... 20,21,52,55,58 Barranca Formation (Mexico) -------- 52 British Columbia ____..———— 20,21,23,25,
bucklandi zone .................... 20 Basey Member, Snowshoe Formation ._ 55 29, 58, 59, 66, 67, 68, 107, 108
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British Mountains, Yukon Territory. 21, 23, 29 Canada, arctic ____________-.21, 22, 23, Corral Creek, Colo ———————————— 93
Brogan, Oreg _________.___.56,64,65 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 36, 37, 38 Cosumnes Formation _______ — — ____ 60
Brown Canyon, Utah ._...____.._ 76 eastern _____________——— 4, 103 Cosumnes River, Calif —————————— 60
Brushy Basin Shale Member, Morrison western ___________ 19, 22, 31, 36, 106 Cotton Valley Group _____-__ 44, 47, 48
Formation ...___________ 75 Canavaria ... _____________--_-_----_ 20, 65 Cow Creek, Oreg —————————————— 63
Buchia, ______ ________ 3, 36, 37, 38. 61, 67 Cannonville, Utah _________- —-_ 77,98 Cow Springs, Ariz ———————————— 77,99
blanfordiana ________________ 25, 58, 66 Canon Alamo, Sierra Jimulco _________ 36 Cow Springs Sandstone — ———— ___— 99
concentrica ______ 18, 24, 26, 30, 31, 38, 55, Cantii Chapa, Abelardo, quoted _-._— 51 Cowley, Wyo ____ ———————— ___- 78
56, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 66, 69, 71, Canyon Springs Sandstone Member, Craig, Mont ____________-____ 68
73, 75, 82, 113 Sundance Formation ______ 71, 73, Cranocephalites ...... 19, 23, 28, 29, 37, 59, 81
fischeriana ........ 24, 25, 55, 58, 59, 63, 66 81, 84, 85, 86, 88, 93, 111 borealis .......................... 23
mosquensis ...... 24, 25, 31, 34, 36, 38, 56, Cape Hatteras, N.C. ____________ 4 costidensws -------------------- 23, 58, 59
58, 59, 63, 66, 67 Carbon County, Mont __ ——— —.--_--. 78 indistinctus ...................... 23
okensis ..... ____________._.... 24, 56 Cardioceras _.______-_ 17, 18, 24, 26, 29, 38, 58, pompeckji -..............---.....- 23
pacifica ........................... 62 69, 71, 73, 75, 82, 87, 90, 92 vulgaris -------------------------- 23
piochii ........ 24, 25, 51, 66, 58, 59, 63, 66 canadense ........................ 58 (Cranocephalites), Arctocephalitea _____ 27
richardsonensis ..._............... 25 cordatum zone _.----.___ —— .24,30,50 Crospedites canodensis ................ 25
rugosa ........... 25, 38, 55, 56, 59, 63, 66 cordiforme .......... 24, 30, 69, 71, 73, 75 27
terebratuloidea -------------------- 58 distans .......................... _ 25,59 subditus --------.— —........... 27
uncitoides ........................ 63 martini .... ______________----- 58, 59 Creniceras ........................... 45, 50
unschensis ________________________ 25 (Maltoniceraa) ................... 30 crenatum ... __________---_-_--.-- 30, 50
Buchias, succession by stages ____._ 19 (Scarburgiceros) ................. 25,30 dentatum _____--_---_------_-.__- 50
Buck Mountain Formation ..______ 66 martini .......... 24, 25, 30, 55, 56, 66 renggeri __ ——— .---____-- ——— __. 30,50
Buckhorn Wash, Utah __________ 74,94,95 (Subvertebriceras) canadense ..... 25 Crioceras --------------.....---------- 36
Buckner Formation . 42, 44, 46, 47, 48, 102, 105 Caribou Range, Idaho ___----------- 90 Crook County, Wyo ————————————— 71
Burr Fork, Utah .____________ 72 Carmel Formation ___.__ 72,73,74,75,76, Crucilobiceras ........... 19, 20, 21, 52, 55, 56,
Bush Canyon, Wyo _ ___________ _ 71 77, 84, 87, 91, 93, 95, 96, 97, 99, 111 57, 59, 64, 65
Butte County, Calif ___________ 57 Cascade Mountains, Wash ________-- 56,66 Cuba ____ 17, 24, SS, 34, 59, 44, 103, 104, 105
Button Butte, Mont ___________ 69 Catacoeloceras ..................... 20, 21, 55 Cubaochetoceras ...................... 39
Catulloceras __._________ 20,21, 22, 55, 58 Cucurpe, Sonora ___ ——— — —— ------ 52
Cedar City, Utah _____.__---__... 76,99 Gurry County, Oreg ——._-——_—— 62,63
Cedar Mountain, Utah _________ 74 Curtis Formation ._——————————— 74, 75, 89,
Cerro Pelon, Veracruz __----__._---— 106 92, 93, 94, 95 96, 113
Caborca, Sonora __________________ 19, 52 Challenger Knoll _______________ 47 Curtis Member, Stump Sandstone __ 72, 73, 89,
Cadoceras ........ 23, 27, 28, 29, 38, 67, 88, 108 Charcas, San Luis Potosi ____--__ 49 90, 92, 95, 113
calyx . _-.______-_-_-._____ 23 Charmasaeiceras -------------------- — 20, 21
catostoma .. ___________________ 23, 58, 59 Chetatites chetae ...................... 25 D
septentrionale . __________________ 23 Cheteo River, Oreg __________- 63
variabtte _______-______--_.___ 23 Chiapas massif, Mexico ____.-. —— -___ 51, 106 Dactylioceras ............... 20, 21, 22, 58, 65
{Longaevieeras) pomeroyenss ..... 29 Chiapas salt basin (Mexico) —— — _ 51, W)6 commune ...................... 21,55,59
(Paraeadoceras) ______.--__-_.__ 28 Chihuahua, Mexico - 32, 33, 35, 45, 51, 103, 105 semicelatum ---------------------- 21
tonnienae ___________________ 23 Chinameca, Veraeruz __.-_-------_- — - 106 tenuicoBtatum zone — — -_-__-_--- 20
(Stenocadoceras) ................. 23,29 Chinitna Formation ______------29, 59, 65 Dalmasiceras . ___-___--_-_---__----__ 39
canadense .................... 23 Chinle Formation _____________ 96,97 Danish Ranch, Utah - ————— ————— - 76
stenoloboide ________________ 23, 59 Choffatia ......... _________________ 27, 29, 50 Daonella sanctea-anea ----............ 61
striatum ........... _________ 23, 58 Chondroceras _____________ 24, 55, 58, 81 Days Creek, Oreg ————————————— 63
Cadomites ............................ 37 allani ___________ 22, 23, 59, 69, 71, 73, 75 Dayville, Oreg _____-- ——— --. —— __ 62
Caenisites turneri zone ______________ 19, 20 Chugwater Formation _____————— 83, 84 Decipia .. _.--__-.-__ — __-_-_____-__- 24
Cahuasas Formation (Mexico) _ 45, 49, 103, 104 Cinco Pesos, Cuba ____________ 39 decipiens zone ___ ——— — - —— —— 24
California __.. 20, 22, 24, 29, 30, 31, 36, 38, 52, Clarke County, Miss ___----___--__-__ 46 Deep Creek, Utah _____———._-__ 98
54, 65, 61, 106, 107, 108 Clarks Fork Canyon, Wyo _______ 84 Deerfield basin (Massachusetts) ———_. 4
Callovian Stage, Alaska _______19,29,38 Climate, Jurassic .. 104, 108, 109, 111, 113, 114 Dennett Creek, Idaho ——————————— 64, 65
ammonite and buchia succession in __ 29, 38 Cloverly Formation ______--_---.__--- 88 Dewey Bridge, Utah .____.„__-_--. 75,96
ammonites of ____________________ 28 Clydoniceras discus zone ______..____._ 22 Dewey Bridge Member, Entrada
arctic region __________28,29,38 Coahuila, Mexico ._________ 36,44,48,105 Sandstone _—————————— 75, 96
Arizona __________________ 113 Coahuila Peninsula, Mexico __——___ 48 Diamond Valley, Utah .- ——— .._„_.. 99
Atlantic Coast region .----__.___ 4 Coast Ranges, Calif ___________ 53,61,63 Dichotomosphinctes .... 24, 25, 30, 52, 55, 59, 60
California ____ 17, 29, 38, 53, 67, 60, 61, Cobbanites .........— 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 37, 55 durangensis ................... 24, 31, 45
62, 106, 107 talkeetnanus ---------------------- 58 muhlbachi ...... ________ — _______ 24
Canada ________ 29, 38, 67, 107, 108, 113 Coconino County, Ariz _._ — _.__------ 77 plicatiloides _____-_-__-.__-_.. — _ 24
Colorado ______________ 111, 113 Cody, Wyo ________________ 84,85,86 (Dichotomosphinctes), Psrisphinctes — 30,38,
Cuba _________________ 103, 104 Coeloceras ____________________________ 65 39, 62
Gulf of Mexico region __ 47, 48, 103, 104 Colebrook Schist .___-----._ —.__--- 55 Dickersonia .......................... 24,34
Idaho _____ 65, 66, 89, 107, 108, 111, 113 Colfax, Calif __________________ 53, 57 aabanUlensis .... ——— — --__-__.-_ 35
Mexico 17, 29, 38, 49, 50, 51, 52, 99, 103, 104 Colorado ____ 73,85,90,95,96,109,113,114 Dillard, Oreg ________————_ — — 63
Montana _______ 29, 67, 81, 111, 113 Colorado Plateau ____________.- Ill Dinosaur Canyon Sandstone Member,
North Dakota ____________ 67 Columbus, Mont .-_---.-___ — —— __ 84 Moenave Formation ______ 96
Oregon ____ 17, 38, 60, 64, 65, 66, 106, 107 Combe Formation ___________________ 57 Dinosaur Quarry, Utah _____ — ___—— 73
Pacific Coast region ____________ 102, 107 Connor Creek, Oreg ___---------------_ 65 Discosphinctes ---------------- _ 39, 52, 55, 60
South Dakota ____________ 111, 113 Cook Inlet region, Alaska ___.. 17, 19, 28 carribeanus -------------------- 24, 30, 45
Utah ___________ 95, 99, 102, 111, 113 Cooks Canyon Agglomerate ____________ 54 virgulatiformis ------------------- 24
western interior region ________ 18, 29, 67, Coon Hollow Formation ._-_---------- 56, 66 (Discosphinctes), Perisphinctes ....... 30,38
102, 107, 108, 109, 111 Copper Hill Voleanics _________— 60 Divesian (term) __.-_---„_ ——. ———. 47
Wyoming _____________ 89, 111, 113 Corongoceras ...___..._ 24,32,34,35,36 Dixie Creek, Oreg ___--_----- —————.- 65
Caloceras _____________________________ 19 alternana --.................... _ 26,36 Docidoceras .................. 22, 23, 55, 56, 59
Camagiiey Province, Cuba _____________ 34 filicoatatum ---..-...-.......--.... 35 widebayense ...................... 23
Campian Age ..---_____-----._______ 63 Coroniceras ... ____ 19, 20, 21, 45, 55, 58, 59, 65 Dorsetenaia ____-__-___--__--_--------. 61
Camptonectes _______ __ 81, 87, 91, 92, 95 bisul.ca.tum ....... ________________ 20 oregonensis ........... -__--____— 22,55
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Doraoplanites ......... ____..__.__. 25 Firemoon Limestone Member, Piper For Guerrero embayment (Mexico) ._. —._ 17, 20,
panderi .......................... 27, 34 mation _.-.__ 68,69,78,79,80,81 25, 29, 52, 103
Doraoplanitoides triplicates ............ 26 Fish Creek, Wyo ____..______ 90 Guhsania bella ........................ 23
Dothan Formation _______ 55,62,63,108 Florida _______________________ 47 Gulf of Mexico, Jurassic connections
Douglas County, Nev ___________.... 53 Fontanelliceras ........................ 20 with Pacific and Atlantic
Douglas County, Oreg _--.-.__......._. 63 Fontannesia .......................... 22,56 Oceans .___.._.. — ___ 17,51
Duchesne County, Utah _______________ 72, 92 Foreman Formation ---------------_ 54, 60 Gulf of Mexico region, ammonite suc
Duchesne River, Utah .______.. 72,91 Fort Pierce Formation ____________--- 47 cession and correlation in __ 24, 38
Dufrenoya ............................ 47 Fossil Mountain, East Greenland .____. 28 characteristic fossils of ———.--_--. 45
Dumortieria .......................... 20,22 Fossils, characteristic -----------_____ 45, 55, geologic history of ———— — ------ 103
levesguei zone ___________________ 20 56, 58, 59, 69, 71, 73 Jurassic formations in ——--------- 44
Dunlap Formation ____.53,54,97,102,108 Franciscan assemblage -------- 55, 62, 63, 108 lithologic and stratigraphic features
Durangitea ................. 27,32,34,35,63 Francisco Formation (Cuba) --_____-_ 39,44 of ___________ —— ____ 39
incertua ............. ___..___.___ 34 Franconitea vimineua ................. 2'6 locality bibliographic references _._ 3
vulgaria ....................... 24,34,45 Frantz Creek, Colo -_________.. 73,93 paleobiogeographic setting ________ 4
Durango, Mexico .-----_.... 32,33,34,36,45 (Franziceraa), Pailoceras -------------- 19 Tithonian Stage in __________ 32, 34
Fremont County, Wyo _..___ —.__ 70, 89 United States, stratigraphic and
Front Range, Colo ____________ 93 lithologic comparisons in — 46
E Fuciniceras ........................ 20,56,65 unconformities in --------- ——.— 99
Gunlock, Utah ____________ 76,97,98,99
Eagle County, Colo .__________.... 93
Eagle Mills Formation .____..__.... 46,47 G Gunnison, Utah _____ ————————— -74,94
Gunnison Plateau, Utah _. ———— —— 74,94
East Butte, Mont ._____________ 80
Galeana, Nuevo Leon ____-_._____._-__ 35 Gyphaea planoconvexa ---------------- 22
Echioceraa .............. 20, 21, 45, 57, 58, 65
Galice Formation .__ 55, 61, 62, 102, 107, 108 planoconvexa fraterna ............ 22
arcticum, .......................... 21
Gallatin County, Mont _____._-._ 80 Gypsum _____ 67, 79, 83, 87, 95, 104, 109, 111
raricoatatum zone .._....__.______ 20
Gallatin Range, Mont _.___..__._ 80, 81 Gypsum Creek, Mont ...._-.-.__----- 78, 84
Echo Island Formation (Canada) ...... 58
Garantiana garantiana zone ___________ 22 Gypsum Spring Formation ------------ 18, 70,
El Antomonio, Sonora __._._....__.__. 19, 52
Garfleld County, Utah ..____.__. 77 71, 78, 82, 84, 88, 89, 90, 95, 99, 109
Elk Creek, Colo ..._..._......._ 73,93
Geologic history, Jurassic ----._------- 102 Gypsum Spring Member, Twin Creek
Embayment, Gulf of Mexico __________ 104
Gervillia montanaenais ................ 80, 99 Limestone ..___ ——— .. 18, 70,
western interior region ____________ 18
Giraffe Creek Member, Twin Creek 72, 74, 82, 83, 9'0, 91, 94
Emery County, Utah ____...____ 74,75
Limestone __ 7'0, 72, 74, 88, 94, 108 Gyrochorte ........................... 86
England, Jurassic formations _______ 44,54,90
Glacier National Park, Mont __.__ 80, 113
Enterprise, Oreg ___________________ 56, 65
Entrada Sandstone ___.--. 72, 73, 74, 75, 77,
Glaucolithitea ......................... 25 H
gorei zone -----------.-_--_------- 24, 26
92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 111, 113
Glen Canyon Sandstone ..___ 72,73,91,109 Hagermeister Island, Alaska __.---_--_ 19
Eocephalitea ......................... 37
Glendale, Utah ________________ 98 Hahns Peak, Colo _____ ——— — — __ 73,93
Eoderoceras ....................... 20,55,65
Gleviceraa ............................ 20, 65 Hanna, Utah ...____.._———72,87,91,109
Epistrenoceras ........................ 45
plauchuti ......................... 21 Haploceraa ........................... 31,32
paracontrarium ................. _ 22,25
Glochiceraa .................... 31,34,38,39 Hardgrave Sandstone ____---_--------- 54,57
Epivirgatitea nikitini .................. 27
fialar ...................... 24,30,31,45 Hardin trough, Wyoming ____----__---- 19
Erycitea ............................. 23,59
lithographicum ................... 26 Harpoceraa ........................... 21. 53
Erycitoidea ........................ 25,56,65
Gold-belt area, Sierra Nevada, Calif ... 54 exaratum ................... 20, 21, 22, 58
howetti ........................... 23, 59
Goliathiceraa .......................... 25, 87 falcifer zone .__-__----_-----__---- 20
Erymnoceraa ......................... 38
Gopher Ridge Volcanics __...______ 60, 107 (Harpoceratoidea) ................ 65
coronatum zone ___________________ 22
Gore Range, Colo ___..________ 93 (Harpoceratoidea), Harpoceraa ........ 65
mixtecorum ................... 22,29,45
Gowericeras costidenaua ............... 28 Harris Wash Tongue, Page Sandstone . 77
Escalante, Utah .________._____ 77, 98
subitum .......................... 28 Harrison Lake, British Columbia —._ 58,67
Euaapidoceros ........................ 24, 30
Graciliaphinctcs progracUis zone ______ 22 Harrison Lake Formation (Canada) .._ 58
Eudmetoceras ..................... 22, 55, 56
Grammatodon ......................... 84 Hartford basin (Connecticut) ___-_-_ 4
Eugeosynclines -----------_--____._____ 52
Grammoceras ............ 20, 21, 22, 55, 58, 59 Hartville uplift ______———————————— 85
Euhoploceraa ......................... 55, 57
thouarsense zone _________----__--. 20 Hatteras Abyssal Plain .. ———————— _. 4, 103
modeata ............... __________ 22
Grand Banks, Newfoundland .._._.__ 4, 103 Haugia ...................... 20, 21, 22, 55, 59
(Euhoploceraa), Sonninia ............. 22
Grand County, Colo __.._____...__ 73,93 variabilis zone ___-_-__________--_- 20
Euprionoceraa ... _.__......._._____.. 25
Grand County, Utah ..________- 75 Haynesville Formation __-_-----_--—— 46
Europe, northwest, ammonite zones.
Grand Junction, Colo __---_---------. 96 Heath, Mont ______------ ———— — 69
See name of particular
Grapevine Creek, Mont .___._--_----.. 78 Hecticoceraa ....................... 29, 38, 61
zone.
Graphoceraa concuvum zone .._.__.-__ 22,57 retrocostatum zone _______________ 22
Europe, southern, subdivisions of the
Gravelbourg Formation (Canada) __ 69, 78, 80 Hells Backbone, Utah _______———_ 98
Tithonian in -.___....._... 26 Hettangian Stage, Alaska ___-__-----._
Graveaia .............................. 31 19
Eurycephalitea .................. 29,38,45,50
Grayiceraa ...................... _____ 35 ammonites and buchias succession
boeaei ............................ 22
mexicanum ....................... 35 in ___________-- 19
Evanston, Wyo _______________________ 90
Graylock Formation -_-_----_--------- 55,64 Arizona ..-------_---------------- 97
Evaporitic sequences -__---__---.----_ 4, 50
Great Falls, Mont __.._______ 68, 114 Mexico _________________ 19,52,99
Exogyra virgula ...................... 36
Green River, Utah ____________ 95,96 Nevada _________________ 19, 53, 106
Green River Lakes, Wyo ..___.70,85,86,88 Oregon _________ 17, 19, 63, 64, 65, 106
Greenland, East _. 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 82, 85 Pacific Coast region — ————— — 102
Gregoryceraa transveraarium zone _._. 24,50 Utah _________ — „_„„__----— 97
Fall River County, S. Dak ..______ 71 Gros Ventre River, Wyo ..-._____.. 83,88 Hibbard Creek, Oreg .-._________ 65
Fanninoceras ......................... 20, 65 Grosaouvria ........................ 29,38,66 Hidalgo, Mexico --________----------_-_ 45, 50
Fant Andesite ________________ 54,57 Gryphaea ............. 65,85,91,109,111,113 HUdaites ............................. 21
Faunal relationships, intercontinental _. 37 culebra ........................... 56 Hildoceraa bifrona zone --------------- 20
Fehlmannitea ------------------------- 30, 50 impresaimarginata ... 22, 28, 69, 71, 73, 75 HUdoglochiceraa ________ 24, 32, 34, 35, 36
Ochetoceras ----------------------- 50 nebrascensis .......... 22, 69, 71, 73, 75, 88 ecarinatum ...................... 34
Fernie, British Columbia ________ 18 planoconvexa ...... 69, 71, 73, 75, 8*0, 81, 89 Himalayitea .......................... 34, 36
Fernie Group (Canada) .._.________-. 68 Guasasa Formation (Cuba) ..__._----- 39,44 Hinchman Sandstone _____——54,60,107
Finca Ancon, Pinar del Rio Province, Guerrero, Mexico ___ 17, 23, 25, 45, 51, 52, 102, Hoback Range, Wyo __.. ———— ————— 90
Cuba ___...._____ 34 103, 104 Hoplocardioceroa ...................... 25
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Horse Creek, Wyo ____________. 87 Kayenta Formation -- 74, 75, 76, 77, 96, 97, 109 (LatiwitcheUia), Witchellia ......... .. 23
Horton, Wyo ________________. 85 Kettawaysites ......................... 22 Laugeites vogulicws .................... 25
Hosston Formation _______..._-- 48 (KeUawaysites), Reineckia ............ 50 Leeds Creek Member, Twin Creek Lime
Huasteca, Mexico ______ 33,45,99,103,105 Keller Creek Shale .____ —— __—_- 55,64 stone .——--70-, 72, 74, 88, 94, 111
Huauchinango, Hidalgo ________________ 45 Kent Formation (Canada) —------— 58 Leioceras opalinum ............. -.23,24,25
Huayacocotla, Veracruz _______________ 30 Kepplerites ........... 22,23,27,28,29,37,38, opalinum zone ______.. 22, 23, 24, 37
Huayacocotla embayment (Mexico) . 17, 26, 29 45, 50, 55, 56, 58, 59, 82 Leptaleoceras .............. 20,21,55,58,65
Huayacocotla Formation (Mexico) ____ 45,49 costidensus ........ 22, 28, 69, 71, 73, 75, 82 Leptosphinctes .... 22, 23, 37, 45, 55, 56, 59, 107
Huehuetla, Hidalgo ___________ 50 maclearni ........ 22, 28, 69, 71, 73, 75, 82 Levan, Utah ....__.______———. 74,94
Huizachal anticline (Mexico) ._____ 33 snugharborense ................... 65 Lewistown, Mont _... ———..—————— 69
Huizachal Formation (Mexico) _______ '49 subitua .............. 22, 69, 71, 73, 75, 82 Liberty County, Mont . — —._.———— 80
Hulett, Wyo _______________ 71, 83, 85 torrensi .......................... 22 Lilac Argillite ——_________———— 54,57
Hulett Sandstone Member, Sundance tychvnis .......... 22, 28, 69, 71, 73, 75, 82 LUloettia ............. 28, 29, 38, 50, 64, 66, 82
Formation -___70,71,81,88,89 Kilianetta ............................. 3'6 buckmani ...... 22,23,27,55,56,58,59,65
Hull Meta-andesite ____________ 54,60 Kimmeridge Clay (England) ___— —— 32 stantoni ....................... 22,23,55
Huntington, Oreg __________________ 64 Kimmeriidgian Stage, Alaska -. — _-— 31, 38 Lingula .............................. 113
Hurricane, Utah ._-..-_........_.. 99 ammonite and buchia succession in . SO, 38 Lioceratoides ......................... 65
Hurwal Formation __________________ 56, 65 Atlantic Coast region _—————— 103 Liparoceras (Becheiceras) ............. 20
Hyattville, Wyo _____________ 71,83,84 California 17, 31, 38, 60, 61, 63, 106, 107, 108 LithologLc and stratigraphic features,
Hybbnpticeras _ ______ 24, 27, 31, 32, S3, 45 Canada _____-_„_- — __ — _ 18, 31, 38, 67 comparisons of —.————— 39
hfybbnotum .... ------_--..._.-.- 26 Colorado ______-._ — ——— -- 90 Little Bull Valley, Utah ____________ 77,98
Hyde Formation ____________________ 55 Cuba ._..__._.-__--------- 39,42 Little Rocky Mountains, Mont __ 29, 81, 82, 113
definition of ------------------ — - 30 Little Sheep Mountain, Wyo .—————— 87
England ___————————————— 31 Little Water Canyon, Mont ——————— 81
I Gulf of Mexico region .—————— 17, 38, Locality data, bibliographic references to 3
48, 102, 104, 105 Lodge Grass Creek, Mont ————————— 78, 84
Idaho ____ 17, 24, 30, 52, 6S, 70, 80, 82, 83, 89,
Louisiana _—_ ——— — - — -— ———. 31 Logtown Ridge Formation — 54, 60, 61, 62, 107
90, 92, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111, 113
Mexico ___ 30, 38, 49, 51, 52, 102, 103, 106 Loma Rinconada, Sierra Cruillas ._—— 35
Idaho Falls, Idaho _____________ 89,111 Loma Sabinilla, Las Villas, Cuba ______ 34
Michigan „..____..__.__„_._. 99
Idoceras ........... 24, 30, 31, 32, 38, 45, 52, 55
Montana _______ 18, 67, 82, 99, 113, 114 Lonesome Formation —_____ ———— — 55,66
balderum ......................... 24
North Dakota ________————— 67,99 Longaeviceras ........................ 23
durangense ....................... 24, 31
Oregon __________ 17, 38, 62, 106, 107 (Longaeviceras) pomeroyense, Cadoceraa 29
planula ............... ________ 60
Pacific Coast region ______— 102, 108 Lopha ................................ 113
(Ilowaiskya) pseudosycthica, Subplanitee 27
South Dakota ._——-----—————— 90,99 Louann Salt. 17, 44, 46, 47. 48, 49, 50, 51, 99, 102
(Ilowaiskya) sokolovi, Subplanitee ..... 27
Texas .-___—— --- —— —— 31. 103, 105 Louisiana ..______——————— 81, 46, 47, 48
Imlayoceras .......................... 29
Utah ____________________ 90 Lovell, Wyo _______—-————————- 87
miettense ......................... 22
Washington ______._____-____-— 107, 108 Lower Slide Lake, Wyo ._.___ 70,84,85,88
Indian Creek, Mont .._.----__._----- 81
western interior region ----------- 18, 114 Lubbe Creek Formation ———— — — — 59
Iniskinites ......................... 23, 29, 64
Wyoming _.- — ——— ——————— 90 Lucky S Argillite ____-____————, 54
intermedius ....................... 22
Kings River, Calif —_—— — —————— 53 Ludwigia murchisonae zone ____________ 22
Inkin Formation (Canada) __.......... 59
Klamath Mountains, Calif., Oreg . 17, 53, 61, 62 Lukachukai Member, Wingate Sandstone 97
Jnoceramus ........................... 35
Kline Member, Nesson Formation —— 69,78 Lupherites ............................ 37
Interior region. See Western interior
Knoxville Formation _ 55, 62, 63, 66, 107, 108 Lyosoma powelli ...................... 84, 89
region.
Kootenai Formation _________——— 67, 68 (Lyroxyites), Oppelia ................. 23
Introduction -.._-------_---------- S
Kosmoceras ........................... 23 Lytoceras ..................... 30, 93, 94, 113
Iron County, Utah _----________-----. 76
jason zone ------------------------ 22 Lytohoplites ................... 24, 27, 32, 34
Iron Mountain Creek, Oreg ___-____-_._ 63
Kossmatia ..... 24, 27, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 51, 55 caribbeanus ....................... 35
Ironside, Oreg ________________________ 56
kingi ............................. 35
Islands, Jurassic ...- 18, 52, 102, 106, 109, 111
rancheriasensis .................... 35
Isthmus of Tehuantepec ..._.._------. 50
varicostata ----------------------- 35 M
Izee, Oreg _____ 55, 64, 65, 66, 102, 106, 107
Victoria ........................ 24, 35, 45
Kossmatia-Durangites ammonite assem McCarthy Formation ------- ———— — — 59
blage ------__.--——-- 84 McCoy Creek, Idaho _-____————— 90
Kremmliing, Colo ---------------------- 93 McDonell Lake, British Columbia ———. 58
Jackson, Wyo ___________.70,83,84,88 Kunga Formation (Canada) ------ —. 58 McElmo Canyon, Colo ——————————— 75,96
Jackson Hole, Wyo _______..___ 90 Kuskokwim, Alaska ___--_—- — — ---—- 19 Macrocephaiites .......... 29, 38, 50, 55, 61, 67
Jagua Formation (Cuba) _.59,42,44,48,50 macrocephalus zone -__. — -.—— 22, 28, 82
Jagua Vieja Member, Jagua Formation Madera County, Calif ——— ——— ——— 57
(Cuba) _________—. 39 Madison County, Mont - — ——— ———— 80
Japan ——------__-_--_.--..---_---- 50 La Boca Formation (Mexico) ———— 49 Madison Range, Mont —————————— 81
John Brown Creek valley, Colorado ..- 75, 96 La Caja Formation (Mexico) _-.45,48,105 Malheur County, Oreg ——————————— 64, 65
John Day, Oreg ___________ 21, 26, 63, 65 La Casita Formation (Mexico) ------34,44, Malone Formation _—_---——-—— 45,51
Johnson Canyon, Utah ____________._ 97, 98 45, 48, 105 Malone Mountains, Tex ______.31,35,45
Johnson County, Wyo _______________ 71 La Gloria Formation (Mexico) —45,48,49,50 (Maltoniceras) Cardioceras ............ 30
Jonotla, Puebla -.._________________ 35 La Joya Formation (Mexico) -.44,45,49,104 Manila, Utah ______-______——. 92
Josephine ultramafic mass ._----.----. 62 La Punta de San Hipolito, Baja Califor Manitoba _____________________ 109
Juab County, Utah _____________ 74 nia _ — __——— — — -- — — - 51 Marias Pass, Mont _—- ——— — ——— ___ 82
Juarez, Durango --.--_--___-__------_ 45 Laberge Group (Canada) .... —..—— 59 Marine transgressions .—_ 17, 18, 46, 47, 48, 51,
Judd Hollow Tongue, Carmel Formation 77, 98 Lak Member, Sundance Formation — — 71, 73, 80, 85, 102, 103, 104, 105, 109, 113
Judith River, Mont _____________ 68 85,86,88,93,111,113 Mariposa Formation 54, 60, 61, 62, 102, 107, 108
Junction Creek Sandstone ___________ 75,96 Lake Fork, Utah ___- —— —— ——— 72, 91, 92 Masefield Shale (Canada) __-...———_ 69
Juniper Mountain, Oreg -------———— 64, 65 Lake Pillsbury, Calif _—_.__ — _ — — 63 Maude Formation (Canada) ——— —— __ 58
(Lamberticeras) collieri, Quensted-
Maude Island, British Columbia ——.._ 66
K toceras ._-___———.29,82
Mazapil, Zacatecas _________———_ 32, 33
Lander, Wyo ______________-84,85,87
Kachpurites fulgens .................. 27 Las Villas Province, Cuba _ ——— ———— 34 Mazapilites ........... 24, 27, 32, 88, 40, 42, 45
Kanarraville, Utah _________... 76 Latiwitchettia ......................... 58 Mazatepec, Puebla —------ — — — — . 35
Kane County, Utah ____________ 76,77 gracilis ........................... 22 Megarietites .................... 20, 55, 56, 65
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Megasphaeroceras .....___... 22, 23, 24, 37, Nevadan orogeny ___.._____102,108
58, 59, 69, 71, 73, 75, 80, 81 New Mexico ----------..-------.-___ 17
rotundum _.......____._.___..___ 22,23 Newark Group ______._-_-__--_-_-__._ 4 Pacific Coast region, ammonite succes
Meleagrinella ................_._ 92, 93, 113 Newcastle, Wyo .___________ 71 sion in __ ———————— —— 29,37
curia ... ......___ r ________ 94,95 Nicely Formation -------_.-------.--_ 55, 65 characteristic fossils of ——— 55, 56, 58, 59
Merced River, Calif _________ 60 Nizina Mountain Formation ___________ 59 geologic history of ---- — --------- 106
Mesa County, Colo .------............. 75 Nodicoeloceras .................. 20, 21, 22, 55 lithologic and stratigraphic features
Metahaploce-Aas ...... .......... 24, 31, 34, 35 Nododelphinula ....................... 84 compared in ___...__._____ 51
(Metapeltoceras), Peltoceras .......... 22,55 Nooksack Formation -..._----------- 56, 66 locality bibliographic references for . 3
Metophioceras ........................ 65 Normannites ... 22, 23, 37, 45, 55, 56, 57, 58, 80 paleobiogeographic setting of ------ 17
Mexico _ .. 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, crickmayi ........................ 22, 23 unconformities in .-. ———— -----— 102
31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 38, 44, 45, 48, undulatum ........................ 22 Pacific Ocean ------——————————— 17,23
49, 51, 103, 105, 106 Norphlet Formation . 44, 46, 47, 48, 102, 104, 105 Page, Ariz ....._....._....__...77,98,99
Mexico, Gulf of. See Gulf of Mexico. North Dakota ___________67,69,81,109 Page Sandstone . 72, 74, 75, 77, 91, 95, 98, 99, 109
Michigan basin _.-----_..-.......___ 99 North Ridge Agglomerate ....--------. 54, 6>0 Paleobiogeography, setting of -....— 4
Michoacan, Mexico -----.__.._.._______ 51 North Temperate Realm of Kauffman .. 31 Palisade disturbance ——————————— 4, 102
Micracanthoceras ............ 24, 32, 34, 35, 36 Nova Scotia shelf __________.. 4, 103 Palo Blanco Formation (Mexico) ..-- 49, 50
acanthellum ...................... 35 Nuevo Leon, Mexico _______ 35,36,44,48 Paltarpites — — — — — — 20, 21, 55, 58, 59, 65
Microderoceras -------------------- _.. 59 Nugget Sandstone ____ 70, 72, 74, 83, 90, 109 Panuco-Elbano area, Veracruz .._..---. 36
Midcontinent region (United States) .. 99 Nutzotin Mountains, Alaska ...._.---. 59 Papitticeras stantoni ----------------.. 22, 55
Miles City, Mont _______.._____ 69 (Papitticeras) Sonninia ............... 57
Mill Creek, Wyo ______________..
Miller Creek, Colo .__.._______ 73,93
84 o Parabigotites ........... _____ 23, 37, 55, 56
craaiicostatus ................ „ 22, 23, 59
Minas Viejas Formation (Mexico) ._ 44,48, Oakley, Utah ________________72,91 Paracadocems ........................ 29, 58
50, 99, 104 Oaxaca, Mexico ________ 23,25,45,49,51, (Paracadoceraa), Cadoceras ........... 23
Mineral, Idaho .------.._......._.. 56, 64, 65 52, 102, 103, 104 tonniense, Cadoceras .............. 23
Minnekahta, S. Dak ____________ 71 Ochetoceras ....................... 30 Paracaloceras ......................... 20
Miogeosyncline _------------------..-_. 53 canaliculatum .................. 24, 30, 45 Paracephalites .................. 27, 28, 37, 81
Mirosphinctes ................... ...__ 39 (Fehlmannites) ------------------- 50 glabrescens .............--..-.--.- 22
Mississippi .------........._______.. 46, 48 Octocythere --------------------------- 4 sawtoothensis ------------ 22, 69, 71, 73, 75
Moab, Utah __________________ 96 Okanogan County, Wash _____... 66 Parachondroceras .. 37,69,71,73,75,80,81,89
Moab Member, Entrada Sandstone .... 75,96 Olcostephanus ------------------------ 36 andrewsi ...____.__.___.._._--_.__ 22
Moenave Formation _.75,76,77,96,102,109 Old Rampart, Alaska ._________ 19 Paracoroniceras .... —— --------------- 21,58
Moffat County, Colo __________ 73,93 Olvido Formation (Mexico) _ 44, 48, 102, 105 Parapallasiceras -.._-. — ----- — --... 33, 40
Monks Hollow, Utah ______ 74, 93, 94, 113 Opis (Trigonopia) __..______--_.______ 84 Parapecten acutiplicatua .-...... ...... 57
Montana .______ 27, 28, 29, 30, 67, 68, 69, 78, Oppelia -_-.____._._.._...___-__._.- 29 praecuraor ----------------------- 57
80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 87, 107, 108, 109, aspidoides zone _...-._.-..._.-_..- 22 Parapeltoceras ------------------- ... .. 50
111, 113, 114 (Lyroxyites) ---------------------- 23 (Parapeltoceras) annulare, Peltoceras . 50
Monte de Oro Formation ......_..... 61 Oregon .____ 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Parareineckeia . ....... 22, 26, 28, 29, 37, 38, 55
Monterrey, Mexico ...-...._..._...._._ 44 3'0, 36, 37, 38, 53, 55, 56, 61, 63. Parastreblitea mazapilensia ..-.---..— 32
Montezuma County, Colo __---------- 75 106, 107 Parastrenoceras ...................... 37,45
Moonshine Conglomerate ------- 54, 57, 60, 107 Orogenic activity _________ 102, 106, 108 mixteca ... __________..__- 22,23
Morgan Creek, Oreg .-..__-._-----_. 65 Orthosphinctes ______----_--------__--_ 24 Paraulacosphinctes transitoriua .. —... 26
Mormon Sandstone ..---.----_.... 54, 57, 107 Ostrea ............ ...___ 44, 87, 94, 113, 114 Paria River, Utah .___----- — ———— 98
Morrisiceras morrisi zone .--------.--._ 22 strigilecula ___._______---____--._- 95 Park Range, Colo ___—————————— 93
Morrison Formation ...... 18, 67, 68, 69, 70-75, Otapiria ._..__-_______--.-----_._____- 51 Parkinsonia parkinsoni zone .._._-.___. 22
77, 82, 87, 88, 90, 92, 93, 95, 96, tailleuri ........__.____.__.._... 52 Parodontoceras ___.______ 24, 34, 35, 55
98, 99, 108, 113, 114 Otoites .... — -----. ____________. 23 butti — — — — . — ———— ——— 24, 34, 35
Mount Baker, Wash .................. 66 sauzei zone --..___-... 22, 25, 57, 102 callistoides ........................ 36
Mount Carmel, Mount Carmel Junction, Otter Point Formation ____.55,62,63,108 Paskenta, Calif _____...————— 63, 66, 107
Utah ____________ 76,97,98 Oxfordian Stage, Alaska _____ 17, 30, 31, 67 Paveloff Siltstone Member, Chinitna For
Mount Jura, Calif .._.._........_ 57, 60 ammonite and buchia succession in . 30, 38 mation ..__----.-_—.-._-- 29
Muddy Creek, Wyo ______________ 71 Atlantic Coast region .-...--.___.. 103 Pavlovia .............................. 25
Murderers Creek Graywacke -------__ 55 California ._____________ 17,30, pallaaioides zone ._.. — —24,26,31,32
Myophorella .......................... 84 38, 53, 60, 61, 62, 106, 107 pavlovi ------------------------... 27
montanaensia .................... 87, 113 Canada ______________ 17, 18, 30, 67 rotunda zone ______..———— 24,26,31
Mysterious Creek Formation (Canada) . 58 Colorado ______________ 95, 113, 114 Pavlovicerae ... ...____... 24, 69, 71, 73, 75
Mytilus ............................... 114 Cuba __________________ 30, 39, 42 (Pavlovicerae), Quenstedtoceras ... .30,38,82
Gulf of Mexico region _.--------.- 17,30, Pectinatitea ....................... .... 25
38, 47, 48, 102, 104, 105 pectinatus zone ...---.-_- — ...24,26,31
N (Virgatosphinctoides) elegans zone . 30
Idaho _________ 17, 30, 66, 90, 107, 113
Peltoceras ...................... 29, 38, 45, 67
Naknek Formation .-----------.--.._ 59 Mexico _____ 30, 49, 50, 51, 52, 1*02, 103,
athleta zone ____ —————— — — 22,47
Navajo Indian Reservation, Ariz ...... 97 104, 105, 106 (Metapeltoceras) ................. 22,55
Navajo Sandstone -..._.----.--.. 53, 74-77, Montana ________ 17, 18, 30, 67, 82, 113 (Parapeltoceras) annulare ........ 50
95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102, 109 North Dakota ____________-- 67 Penon Blanco Volcanics .-.--..------. 60
Nebrodites ............................ 31 Oregon ______ 17, 30, 38, 62, 66, 106, 107 Pentacrinua ------------------- .....-. 86
Necaxa, Puebla ___________... 29 South Dakota ___________.- 87, 113 Peoa, Utah __________________- 72,90
Nelchina, Alaska ...._.-.---........_ 59 Utah ........................ 95, 113, 114 Perisphinctca ..______________ 24, 35, 39
Neocomian Age --------..__-.-_._ 51, 67, 106 Washington __________ 107 burckhardti ---------- — ----------- 32
Neocosmoceras ........................ 63 western interior region .-.-_------ 18, 30, cautisnigrae zone -- — -.. ——— —— 24
Nephi, Utah ______________74,94,111 danubiensis ---------------------- 33
67, 102, 108, 113
Nerinea ............. __._._...._...__. 57 plicatilis zone __.——————24,30,113
Neritina _. —— -----._..-.-....--.---.-- 84 Wyoming ______ 18, 87, 88, 9>0, 113, 114 transitoriua ------ ...------ — . — _ 33
Nesson Formation ________ 67, 69, 82, 109 Oxynoticeras ------------- ___. 20, 45, 55, 65 (Dichotomosphinctes) .----- 30,38,39,62
Neuqueniceras .................. 29, 38, 45, 50 oxynotum ........................ 21 (Discoaphinctes) ____________ 30, 38
neogaeum ............ ....._..... 22,29 zone .________________ 19,20 Peronoceraa ................... 20, 21, 22, 58
Nevada _ 19, 20, 21, 52, 53, 54, 97, 106, 108, 109 Oxytoma wyomingensis ............. _ 90 Phricodoceras ......................... 20
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Phylloceras ----------__-._____________ 30,32 Pseudocadoceras _______ 23,29,38,58,60,66 Robertson Formation __-_---_----_---_ 55, 57
bakeri ____________________________ 23, 29 grewingki . _____________ 22, 55, 60 Rock Creek Member, Fernie Group
Phylseogrammoceras --------------- 2/0, 22, 58 Pseudolioceras __________ 20,21,22,33,55 (Canada) __________ 68
Phymatoceras ... ____.... 20, 21, 22, 58, 59 compactile ------------------------ 21, 22 Rocky Mountains, British Columbia,
Physodoceras _-------_-_______________ 31,35 maclintocki ----------------------- 23, 24 Alberta ----- 20, 21, 22, 25, 68, 108
Picard Shale Member, Nesson Forma whiteavesi ------------------------ 23 Rogue Formation _._ — _ —— .55,61,62,107
tion ------- _____________ 69, 78 Pseudolissoceras ______ 24, 27, 32, 33, 34, 36, 40 Romana Mesa, Ariz ________------__-- 99
Pictonia baylei zone __________________ 24 bavarieum _________________-_-_-- 26 Root Glacier Formation _______ —.---._ 59
Pirofenta Formation (Mexico) 34, 35, 45, 49, 106 subrasile _____..-___________ 32,33 Rosario Formation (Mexico) .-__-----_ 49
Pimienta Member, Jagua Formation zitteli ...----.....- — _.__ 24, 26, 27, 32, 35 Roseburg, Oreg. ___———___—————— 63
(Cuba) -.__._____ 39 Pseudotoites ______-------_____-.-_ 23,37 Roseray Formation, (Canada) ____---- 81
Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba _________ 34 Pseudovirgatites scruposus ------------ 26 Routt County, Colo ———— — __ — — 73,93
Pine Butte Member, Sundance Forma Psiloceraa .__ —— —— _____ 10, 19, 20, 21, 55, 59 Russian platform __--_--___---_------_ 27
tion 71, 73, 85, 86, 88, 92, 93, 95, 113 canadense ... _______----- 20,21,58
Pine Creek, Utah __..________ 77,98 eruffatas -------------- __-.-.— 21, 58
Pintura, Utah ______________ 99 planorbia ----------- _------------ 20
Piper, Mont ..__________________ 69 zone ..._-._________ 20 Sabinas basin, Mexico ________———— 48,49
Piper Formation ______________________ 68, 69, (Franziceras) -------------------- 19 Sadlerochit River, Alaska __.---__--. 22
70, 78, 79, 81, 83, 84, 87, 88, 109 Puale Bay, Alaska ____._--___ 19 Sailor Canyon, Calif _____ — ——— — 106
Pit River, Calif ___________________ 54, 61 Puebla, Mexico ___________- 34, 35, 51 Sailer Canyon Formation ____ — ——._ 57
Pittsburg Landing, Oreg _____________ 56,66 Punta Alegre Formation (Cuba) ______ 42 Salina, Utah _______________ 74,94,113
Placer de Guadalupe.Chihuahua __ 32, 35, 45, 51 Purbeck Beds (England) ___.____ 90 Salina Creek Canyon, Utah ______ 94, 113
Platypleuroceras ---------------------- 21 Salina Formation (Mexico) .__ — __— 50
Plettroceras _____________________ 20, 21, 58, 59
spinatum zone ____________________ 20
Q Salinites -------------------- _____ — __
Salt ______________ 4, 17, 46, 47, 49, 50, 67,
35
Pleuromya ---_-------_---_____________ 91 Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada -.-21,58,66 99, 103, 104, 105, I0«, 109, 111
Plicatostylus -------------------------- 53, 57 Quenstedtia --------------------------- 84 Salt domes __.___________-———— 42,47
Pliensbachian Stage, Alaska __----____- 20 sublaevis ------------------------- 87 Salt Lake County, Utah ______— 72
ammonite and buchias succession in IS Quenstedtoceras ----------------------- 90 Salt Spring Slate ______-_------_ 60
Arizona _--_----_---______________ 97 collieri ------------ ___ 22, 69, 71, 73, 75 Salt Valley anticline __------——-— 96
Atlantic Coast --___-_________-__ 4 henriei ________..--_________ 23, 38, 58 Salt Wash Sandstone Member, Morrison
California ----__-_________ 20, 57 lamberti zone .___________ 22, 47, 50 Formation --____--_--_--_- 75,77
Canada -----_______ 18, 21, 65, 67, 108 marine zone __---------_-------_-- 24, 30 San Andres Member, Taman Formation
Gulf of Mexico region _________ 102, 103 (Lamberticeras) collieri _________ 29, 82 (Mexico) ___________ 106
Mexico _---_____-.__ 17, 20, 49, 99, 103 (Pavloviceras) ____------- 30, 38, 82 San Cayetano Formation (Cuba) _____ 17, 39,
Nevada ________________ 20, 53, 57 44, 1'02, 103, 104
Oregon ______ 17, 20, 57, 64, 65, 102, 108 R San Luis Potosi, Mexico ___ — -.32,33,45,49
Pacific Coast region ______________ 102 San Miguel County, Colo —__. —— — 75
Utah ___________________ 97 Ramona Mesa, Utah, Ariz ____________ 77 San Pedro del Gallo, Durango _.. 30, 31, 34, 48
Plomosas, Chihuahua .-----______.__ 32, 45, 51 Rancho Cerro Pozo Sema, Sonora _____ 31 San Rafael River, Utah ____._._ 75, 94, 96
Poe Evaporite Member, Nesson For Rasenia . ________________._ 24, 25, 30, 45 San Rafael Swell, Utah ___——————91,93,
mation ------------------- 67, 69 cymodoee zone ___-_--___---------_ 24 94, 95, 96, 109, 111, 113
Point Barrow, Alaska _________ 19, 22 mutabilis zone ______-__-_-_-----__ 24 San Vicente Member, Guasasa Forma
Poker Chip Shale, Fernie Group Recapture Shale Member, Morrison For tion (Cuba) _ ——— — -. 40
(Canada) ______ 68 mation __---___-___ — .- — _ 75 Sand Creek, Utah ____________ 91
Polyplectus __..______________ 20, 22, 55 Red Canyon, Utah ____._-----__ — __ 94 Sand Valley, Ariz _________————- 77
Porcupine Dome, Mont _.____________ 69 Red Creek, Wyo ____________ 70,84,85,86 Sanpete County, Utah ——__———————— 74
Porcupine River, Alaska -_________-_-- 19 Red Deer Member, Fernie Group Santa Ana Mountains, Calif _————— 29, 52,
Posidonia ___________________________ 105 (Canada) —.-_.„—————— 68 53, 54, 61, 106
Potem Formation _____________________ 54, 61 Red Dome, Mont ______________ 78, 84 Santa Monica Mountains, Calif .— 17, 53, 54
Powder River Basin _-_---___________ 86 Red Gulch, Wyo ___-_-_.-___.__._ 84 Santa Monica Slate _________.. 54, 60, 61
Poza Rica, Veracruz ._--.___________ 49, 51 Red Mountain, Idaho -_-----------_--- 70 Santiago Formation (Mexico) —————45,48,
Praeatrigites ------------ ____________ 22,55 Redding, Calif ___._______._———— 61 49, 50, 51, 104
Preuss Sandstone ___________70,72,74, Redwater Member, Stump Sandstone __ 72, 73, Sarasinella ------------------------- —— 36
88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 111, 113 89, 90, 92 Saskatchewan ____ 69, 78, 80, 81, 82, 109, 111
Prionodoceras ------------------------- 31 Redwater Shale Member, Sundance For Sawtooth Formation _————————24, 68, 80
(Prionodoceraa), Amoeboceras --------- 25, 59 mation _____.-- 70, 71, 73, 82, 85, Sawtooth Range, Mont .-_.——————— 82, 113
spiniferum, Amoeboceras ---------- 25 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95 Scarburgiceras __________ 24, 69, 71, 73, 75
Proceritea ---------------------------- 29 Reineckeia ___________ 22, 27, 29, 38, 45, 50 (Scarburgiceras), Cardioceras __.--_--- 25,30
Proeerithium _________________________ 84 (Kellawaysites) ------------------- 50 martini, Cardioceras -------------- 24, 25,
Prodactylioceras ..______ 20, 55, 56, 58, 65 (Reineckeites) -------------------- 50 30, 55, 56, 66
davoei ---------------------------- 2il Reineckeites -------------------------- 22 Schlites spinosus -------------- — - __--- 22
davoei zone ______________ — _____ 20 (Reineckeites), Reineckeia ------------- 50 Schlotheimia ___________ — — 19, 20, 55
Proniceras .._.-. 24, 27, 32, 34, S3, 45, 55, 63 Rsynesoceras -------------------- 20, 55, 57,65 angulata zone _ — ________-_-_-_— 20
(Proscaphites), Taramelliceras ________ 30 Rich Member, Twin Creek Limestone . 70, 72, Schuler Formation „ —— ._— 4, 44, 47, 48, 105
Prososphinctes ------------------------ 3ft, 38 74, 80, 81, 84, 85, 88, 89, 91, 92, Sehuleridea ------------------------- — 4
Protacanthodiecus _______________ 24, 34, 36 95, 98 Seaways, Jurassic .. ——— __ 17, 106, 107, 111
Protaneyloceras __________._ 24, 33, 34, S6, 40 Richardson Mountains, Canada _. 19, 21, 23, 29 Seldovia, Alaska _-----------__-----— 19
alamense _______________________ 36 Richfield, Utah __.____________— 74 Semiformiceras ------------ _____ — __- 32
anahuacense ____.__-.____.__--__ 36 Riddle, Oreg __________________ 62 Seneca, Oreg ____-____---------_-—__- 55
barrancense ---------------------- 36 Riddle Formation __.-_-_--___ 55, 62, 63, 1'08 Sevier County, Utah ———————————— 74
catalinense _______________________ 36 Rierdon Formation _____ 68, 69, 81, 87, 89 Shaunavon Formation (Canada) ———— 69, 80
hondense ------------------- — ____ 34,36 Rierdon Gulch, Mont ____.___-. — — 68 Sheep Mountain, Wyo ____-_.--- —— __ 85, 87
ramirense ________________________ 36 Ring Butte, Oreg __ ------- ___-_—— 65 Sheridan arch, Wyoming, Montana _._ 18, 111
Protogratnmoceras _________________ 23, 56, 65 Ringsteadia, --------------------------- 25 Shoshone River, Wyo ._--_--_--_-——— 86
Provo, Utah ______________ 93, 113 pseudocordata zone ________-------_ 24 Shurtz Creek, Utah ______.. — _. 99
Pryor Mountains, Mont __ 78, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85 Rio Blanco County, Colo --_---.-————— 93 Sierra Blanca, Tex _..__ —— ———— 35
Pseudoamaltheus ________________ 21 Riverside, Wash ____--_--_---__--_-_-- 66 Sierra Cruillas, Tamaulipas ———————34,35
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Sierra de Catorce, San Luis Potosi .. 32, 33, 45 Suaritea bituberculatum .... _-------- 36 Tithonian Stage, Alaska .. ————— ——— 36,38
Sierra de Santa Rosa, Sonora ______ 52 Subcraspedites plicomphalus -------___ 25 ammonite and buchia succession in . 31
Sierra del Rosario, Cuba _______ 39,44 Subdichotomoceras .. _______ 27, 31, 32, 38 arctic region ____-_----.-.--------- 38
Sierra do los 6rganos, Cuba ..____ 39,44 nikitini ________._._._.____...__.. 32 Atlantic Coast region ______------. 103
Sierra Jimulco, Coahuila ________ 36 Subgrossouvia __...________-_____.-_-__ 50 California ___ 17, 36, 38, 53, 57, 61, 62, 63,
Sierra Nevada, Calif ___.-_17,29,52,53, Sublette County, Wyo __________-- 70 67, 108
54, 57, 60, 61, 62, 106, 107 Sublithacoceras penicUlatum __.______- 26 Canada ..___________ 18, 36, 38, 67
Sierra Ramirez, Durango -...______ 36 Subplanitea ............ 24, 25, 27, 32, 33, 34,45 Colorado ______. ———— —— —— 95
Sigaloceras cattoviense _.__.._______.... 23 danubienais ....................... 32 Cuba _.-________-- 33, Sit, 35, 39, 40
calloviense zone _---__--___________ 22,50 klimovi ....__-------._----.-.--_- 27 definition and correlations of ———— 31
Silberlingia ...__.__...___.._._.._.__._ 61 reise .............................. 33 Gulf of Mexico region ----———17,32,38
Silvies Member, Snowshoe Formation _. 55 (Ilowaiskya) pseudosycthica ...... 27 Mexico -_______- 32, 34, 35, 36, 106, 108
Simoceras ..... __________ 24, 32, 34, 35 sokolovi ...................... 27 Montana _----------------------- 67
(Virgatosimoceras) _____.....___.. 35 Substeucroceras ....... 24, 27, 34, 35, 45, 52, 55 North Dakota ______--- — ———— 67
Sinawaya Member, Temple Cap Sand koeneni ........................... 26 Oregon ______ 17, 36, 38, 62, 63, 67, 108
stone -.--____-_._.._.___._ 97 Substeueroceras-Proniceras ammonite as Pacific Coast region --------------- 108
Sinemurian Stage, Alaska ------_.__ 19 semblage _.----------.----. 35 Russia -______--------------------- 34
ammonites and buchias sucession in 19 (Subvertebriceras) canadense, Cardio- subdivisions of -__-- —— --————— 26,32
Arizona -._-__.-__--_.___.__...__. 97 ceras --------------------- 25 Texas _____--___----- —— ——— 35,36
California ._____________ 57, 61, 106 Summerville Formation ...----------.-74, 75, Utah .-.....------- — --.------ 95
Canada ———_____.____ 18, 19, 67, 108 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 113 Washington _______————————— 108
Mexico ——___ 17, 19, 49, 52, 99, 102, 103 Summit County, Utah __-------_--_---- 72 western interior region ._..——— 102, 114
Nevada .________..____ 19, 53, 106 Sun River, Mont _--_____________ 68,80 Tmetoceras .............. 22,23,56,57,59,65
New Jersey .._____..-_.__.__.___. 102 Sundance Formation _.._-.------- 70, 71, 73, scissum ................ 22, 23, 24, 55, 58
Oregon ..._______. 17, 19, 63, 64, 65, 106 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88, 93, 111, 113 Toarcian Stage, Alaska -------------- 22
Pacific Coast region ._____._ 52 Sunrise Formation ------__---------- 53, 54 ammonite and buchias succession in 21
Utah ..-..-._................... 97 Suplee, Oreg ..__55,64,65,66,102,106,107 Arizona ___-___---_-- — ----------- 97
Slick Rock, Colo ______..______ 75,96 Suplee Formation ---------------- 55, 64, 65 California -------- ———— ——— — 57,61
Slick Rock Member, Entrada Sandstone 75, 96 Sutneria platynota ------------------- 24,39 Canada ..._________ 18, 22, 65, 67, 108
Sliderock Member, Twin Creek Lime Sweet Grass Hills, Mont _______ 80,81 Gulf of Mexico region ------ — -.. 102
stone __ 24, 70, 72, 74, 80, 84, 85, Sweetgrass arch (Montana) .... 80, 81, 82, 113 Mexico __ — ..-________ 39, 52, 99, 104
87, 88, 89, 91, 95, 99, 108, 109 Swift Formation ..____________ 30,68, Nevada ___________._______—— 21,53
Smackover Formation ................ 30, 44, 69, 81, 82, 90, 108, 113 Oregon __--_.--._____-------- 17, 21, 64
46, 47, 48, 50, 105 Swift Reservoir, Mont __-__-__.-.. 24,68 Utah __„_________.____ —---— 97
Smith River, Mont ..-_......._..._.... 68 Sykes Mountain, Wyo __-_---_--------- 84 Tonnie Siltstone Member, Chinitna For
Smithers, British Columbia ......_... 58 Symon, Durango __--....---------32, 33, 36 mation ------------------- 65
Smithers Formation (Canada) -------- 58 Torcer Formation ------------------— 35,51
Snake River, Oreg., Idaho __..__17,56, Torquatisphinctes _____----- 24, 32, 33, 40
64, 66, 90, 106, 107 Tragophylloceras ._.----------.-------- 20
Snowshoe Formation _--__ 22, 55, 57, 64, 107 ibex zone _________________________ 20
Sohlites -----_..__ 37,69,71,73,75,80,81 Takwahoni Formation (Canada) __.__ 59 Trail Formation ...-——— — ——— —— 54,60
spinosus -____.__....._.___.__...__ 95 Talkeetna Formation -_.------.-- ———. 59 Transgressions, marine. See Marine
Sonninia ... -_..........._.___. 23, 57, 58, 59 Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska ....___ 22,59 transgressions.
dominans ____._-_-_.__..___......_ 53 Taman Formation (Mexico) ___45,49,106 Trinity County, Calif - —.-——————— 62
sowerbyi zone ..__-----_...... 22,57 Tamaulipas, Mexico ..- 17, 33, 34, 35, 44, 48, 49 Tropidoceras .......... ———— —————— 20,58
(Euhoploceras) ..--__-_._._.._____ 22 Tamn, San Luis Potosi ------------_ 45 Trowbridge Shale __-__.- 55,64,65,66,107
(Papillicerat) _.__._______._......_ 57 Tampico, Tamaulipas _- 17, 33, 35, 49, 103, 105 Tulites subcontracts zone -------—___ 22
Sonora, Mexico --------------17, 31, 38, 51, 52 Tampico embayment (Mexico) ..---_-- 49, 51 Tulsequah, British Columbia ----------- 59
South Dakota ____ 71, 82, 86, 90, 109, 111, 113 Tampico Shale Member, Piper Forma Tuxedni Group _..--——————————— 59
South Fork Mountain Schist _______ 62 tion __.-____ 68, 69, 78, 79, 80 Twelvemile Canyon Member, Arapien
Spearfish, S. Dak ._____________ 86 Tancrcdia __-_______________--__-__--__ 95 Shale ______________ 74, 94
Spearfish Formation ------------------ 83 Tantima, Veracruz --.------_-------.-- 36 Twin Creek Limestone -. 24, 70, 72, 74, 80, 81,
Sphaeroceras ._...._________________ 23,37 Tantoyuca, Veracruz ------_----.--_.. 36 82, S3, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94,
Spiroceras ........____ 22, 23, 24, 37, 55, 56, Taramelliceras ( Prose aphites) ......... 30 95, 96, 99, 108, 109, 111
69, 71, 73, 75, 80, 81 Taseko Lake, British Columbia ..-._--. 58 Twin Creek trough (Wyoming, Idaho,
bifurcatum ........_.._...._....__ 22, 60 Taylorsville, Calif ...53,54,57,60,61,106,107 Utah) ..-.----------18, 111
Spiticeras ..__--_______-_____.____.__ 24,39 Telephone Creek, Wyo _______._ 90 Twin Peaks, Oreg ____- —— ————— - 65
Springdale Sandstone Member, Moenave Telkwa Formation (Canada) ---------- 58 Twist, Wash .._________..- ——— -- 66
Formation ..------.-___.. 97 Teloceras ......... 22, 23, 37, 55, 57, 58, 59, 61 Twist Formation ---------------------- 66
Stanley Mountain, Calif -....__--.-.. 63 itinsae ............................ 22,23 Twist Gulch Member, Arapien Shale -- 74, 94
State Bridge, Colo _____..______ 93 Temple Cap Sandstone ___ 76, 97, 98, 99, 109 Tylostoma ______________— ----------- 84
Stemmatoceras ... . 22, 24, 69, 71, 73, 75, 80, 81 Tenas Creek, British Columbia ...-__ 58
arcicostatum .._..__.__.._____...
Stenocadoceras _---.----_.___-.___.....
22
29
Tepexic Limestone (Mexico) -----—— 45,50 u
Tethyan Realm ________29,30,37,38,67
{Stenocadoceras), Cadoceras _.__--.._. 23,29 Teton County, Idaho __..________ 70 Uinta Mountains, Utah .. 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 111
canadense, Cadoceras .___-----_____ 23 Teton County, Wyo ___________ 83,85,88 Uintah County, Utah _____ ——— —— 72,73
stenoloboide, Cadoceras ________..._ 23, 59 Teton Range, Wyo __------- —— —— .—— 90 Uncompahgre uplift (Colorado) __-_— 18
striatum, Cadoceras --.-..--..._.. 23, 58 Texas _____ 31, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 103, 105 Unconformities, Jurassic ____---.---- 99, 107
Stephanoceras ....... ___. 22, 23, 24, 45, 57, 80 Thistle, Utah ____.___________ 109 United States, southern __ 17, 30, 31, 103, 105
humphrierianum zone _..__..... 22, 23, Thompson Limestone ---------------_. 54, 57 Uptonia .................. 20, 21, 45, 55, 58, 59
24, 57, 80, 109 Thousands Pockets Tongue, Page Sand jamesoni ......................... 21
kirschneri __......._......._..._._ 23, 59 zone ____.-____---———— 20
stone ___________.77,98,99
Stockade Beaver Shale Member, Sun- Uranium Peak, Colo ______——- — -- 93
dance Formation .70, 71, 85, 88, 111 Thnrmanniceras ............... _.___- 36 Utah ___-- 72, 73, 74, 75, 76,57, 89, 90, 91, 93,
Strenoceras subfurcatum zone _________ 22 Tincup Creek, Idaho --__________ 90 96, 109, 111, 113, 114
Strigoceratidae ._.--___.---_-_... 22 Titanites .............................. 18 Utah County, Utah ___..-—————— 74
Stump Sandstone _________ 70,72,73,82, giganteus zone ....._.__._.._..__ 24,26 Ute Mountains, Colo — —— — -------- 96
88, 89, 92, 95, 108, 113 occidentalis ....................... 25 Utiea, Mont ________________— 68
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Washington County, Utah ------------- 76 Windhauseniceras interspinosum ....... 26
Watrous Formation (Canada) _._--.--- 69 Windy Hill Sandstone Member, Sundance
Vancouver Island, British Columbia -.- 58, 67 Watton Canyon Member, Twin Creek Lime Formation 71, 73, 85, 87, 90, 92, 113
Vanguard Group (Canada) --------— 69 stone . 70, 72, 74, 87, 88, 91, 96, 111 Wingate Sandstone _________ 74,75,77,97
Vaugonia .............. ..... — ------- 44 Webb County, Tex ______________ 35 Winsor Member, Carmel
conradi .. ______________ 87, 99, 113 Weberg Member, Snowshoe Formation - 55 Formation ______ 76, 77, 97, 111
quadrangularis .................... 90 Wedge, The, Utah ______________ 95 Winthrop, Wash _-.-._______________ 66
Veracruz, Mexico . 26, 29, »0, 36, 49, 51, 103, 106 Wells Creek Volcanics ___________ 56,66 Witchellia ............................. 56
Vermiceras ........................... 45 Werner Formation ________44,46,47,99 (LatiwitcheUia) ................... 23
Vermisphinctes ................. ------ 28,37 Western interior region (United States), Wolverine Canyon, Idaho .--. —— ------ 70
Vernal, Utah ________________ 91 ammonite succession and Wolverine Canyon Limestone Member,
Victoria, Tamaulipas _ 33, 44, 48, 49, 99, 105 correlation in .-.22,24,27,37,38 Preuss Sandstone -..____ 59,92
Vinales Limestone (Cuba) _______ 39 Bajocian Stage in .-.. —... ——.. 24 Woodruff, Utah _______________________ 90
Vinalesphinctes ....................... 39 Callovian Stage in __..--____-. 29,38 Wrangell Mountains, Alaska __ 19, 28, 59, 67
Virgatites ............................ 32 characteristic fossils of .... 69, 71, 73, 75 Wyoming __ 70, 71, 78, 82, 83, 90, 92, 109, 111,
virgatus .....--------------------- 27 geologic history of -----__- 106, 107, 108 113, 114
Virffatosimoceras _____________________ 24 lithologic and stratigraphic features Wyoming Range, Wyo ------__--_.--.-- 90
(Virgatosimoceras), Simoceras ........ 35 compared in ------ ——— -.. 67
Virgatosphinctes ... 24, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 45 locality bibliographic references for 3
aguilari .......................... 32,45 Oxfordian Stage in ---_.----_----. 30
chihuahuensis ..................... 33 paleobiogeographic setting of _____ 18
Xenocephalites .... 22, 28, 29, 38, 45, 50, 55, 82
densiplicatus ............... ------- 33 unconformities in ----- — ------— 102
vicarius ................. 22, 55, 56. 65, 66
mendozanus ....................... 26 Westgate, Nev ________________ 21,106
Xochapulco, Puebla ___________ 30
mexicanus ........................ 32,33 Westgate Formation ______ ____— 53, 54
sanchezi .......................... 32 Weston County, Wyo -_______—- 71
Virgatosphinctoides elegans zone ----- 24,26 Westwater Canyon Sandstone Member,
scitulus zone ______________________ 24, 26 Morrison Formation ------ 75
•wheatleyensis zone --------------- 24,26 Weyla ................. __________ 56 Yakoun Formation (Canada) _________ 58
(Virgatosphinctoides) elegans, Pectina- alata ............. ------------__ 57, 61 Yellowstone National Park, Wyo __ 80, 88, 89
tites, zone ____--_--__-_--- 30 White Throne Member, Temple Cap Yukon Territory _________ 21,23,25,29,59
Volcanism, Jurassic .. 52, 53, 64, 106, 107, 108 Sandstone __.-._ ——— —— 97
Volgian Stage ________________ 27,31 Whitehorse, Yukon Territory - ——.-__- 59
Whiterocks River canyon, Utah ...-72,91,92
w Whitmore Point Sandstone Member,
Zacatecas, Mexico ______________ 32,33
Moenave Formation ..._-- 96, 97
Waagenia ------------------........... 32 Wichmanniecras ...................... 36 Zaraiskites albani zone ____________ 24, 26, 34
Waehneroceras .............. 19, 20, 21, 55, 59 zarajskensis ...................... 27
Wide Bay, Alaska ______________ 19
Wagnericeras .............. 17, 26, 45, 50, 103 Zemiatephanus .................... 22, 23, 37
Williston basin (Montana, North
Wallowa Mountains, Oreg __.---------- 56,65 richardsoni ....................... 23
Dakota) ___ 18, 67, 80, 81, 82, 84, Zigzagiceras .......................... 45
Warm Springs Member, Snowshoe For
mation __..--_----_------_ 55, 57 109, 111, 113 floresi ............................ 22,25
Warrenoceras ............. 22, 28, 37, 82, 85, 88 Willow Creek, Idaho ______—_.___-— 70 zigzag zone __________-__-_---___ 22
codyense ............ __ 22, 69, 71, 73, 75 Wind River Basin, Wyo .. 18, 78, 82, 83, 84, 85, Zion National Park, Utah .________ 97,98
Wasatch Mountains, Utah ______ 91,92,94 86, 87, 93, 111 Zuloaga Limestone (Mexico) .. 44,45,48,49,
Washington ____ ___ 18, 52, 56, 66, 107, 108 Wind River Mountains, Wyo ___—70,86,88 50, 52
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Jurassic Paleobiogeography

of the Conterminous United

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1062

Paleogeographic changes in the United States during Jurassic

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1980

CECIL D. ANDRUS, Secretary

H. William Menard, Director

Library of Congress Catalog-card No. 80-600017

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office

Stock Number 024-001-03105-1

FIGURE 1. Jurassic basins of deposition in North America ————————————————

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Harpoceras falcifer Harpoceras Harpoceres

Ameltheus mergaritatus only) and Lepte/eoceras Ameltheus

Schlotheimia anguleta Psiloceras canadense,

A. Mexico to southern British Columbia.

Pleuroceras?, Pleuroceras, Amaltheus, Pseudoamaltheus

Crucilobiceras Crucilobiceras Echioceras Echioceras arcticum

Oxynoticeras oxynotum Gleviceras plauchuti 1

Psiloceras canadense Henangian

Psiloceras erugatas Waehneroceras Psiloceras

. B. Northern British Columbia to East Greenland.

HETTANGIAN TO TOARCIAN AMMONITES IN NORTH AMERICA.

Quenstedtoceres lamberti Quenstedtoceras collieri

Graphoceres concavum freestrig ites and

A. Mexico to western interior region.

Angular unconformity on Cranocephalites borealis Cranocephalites borealis

B. British Columbia to East Greenland.

BAJOCIAN succession of ammonite genera from Tmetoceras at the

Virgatosphinctoides elegans Hybonoticaras

Ringsteadtia pseudocordata Discosphinctes carribeanus, Discosphinctes cf . D. Discosphinctas carribeanus ,

& Cardioceras cordatum ——————— ? ——————— Cardioceras cordiforme

A. Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Coast, and western interior region.

Craspeetftes aff . Chetatites chelae

B. Southwestern Canada to East Greenland.

Titan ites giganteus

Glaucolithites gorei Pseudovirgatites

FIGURE 16.—COMPARISONS OF THE TITHONIAN

Substeueroceras Upper Upper Upper k

Lower Lower Lower

Hybonoticeras Subplanites klimovi

AND VOLGIAN STAGES AND THE SUGGESTED SUBDIVISIONS OF THE TITHONIAN.

OXFORDIAN blage probably corresponds to the basal Oxfordian (zone

AMMONITE SEQUENCES The lowermost upper Tithonian ammonite assem­

TITHONIAN OF CALIFORNIA AND OREGON

1. Western Cuba 6. Sierra de Catorce, San Luis Potosi', central Mexico

AMMONITE SEQUENCES The lowermost upper Tithonian ammonite assem

"Upper Sundance" Formation in nearby parts of Wyo to thin-bedded———————————————— 4.5 1.4