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    The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Kimmeridgian Stage (Jurassic System), at Flodigarry, Staffin Bay, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK

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    Following voting by the Kimmeridgian Working Group, the International Subcommission on Jurassic Stratigraphy and the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Kimmeridgian Stage (Jurassic System) was ratified by the executive of the International Union of Geological Sciences. The boundary is placed in the upper part of Bed 35 of the Staffin Shale Formation, 1.25±0.01 m below the base of Bed 36 in block F6 in the foreshore at Flodigarry, Staffin Bay, Isle of Skye, Scotland. The coordinates for the middle part of the two adjacent sections (sections F6N and F6S) are 57°39'39.5''N, 6°14'43.9''W and 57°39'40.5''N, 6°14'45''W; UK National Grid Scheme NG 4687 7139 and NG 4687 7142±5 m. This stratigraphic point coincides with the appearance over a short stratigraphic interval of several new ammonite taxa that delineate the base of the Subboreal ammonite Baylei Zone, the base of the Densicostata Subzone marked by the base of the flodigarriensis horizon, and, independently, the base of the Boreal ammonite Bauhini Zone. The main advantages of this locality are: the presence of a dual ammonite zonation marked by two extensively studied, well-preserved and very abundant groups of ammonites, and their preservation within a continuous section of ~120 m of open marine, fossiliferous, thermally immature mudrocks with no evidence of condensation or stratigraphic gaps. Dinoflagellate cysts, magnetostratigraphy and stable isotope data from the same section provide secondary markers. The stratigraphic point is located 0.17–0.65 m below the boundary interval between the dinoflagellate cyst zones DSJ 26 and DSJ 27 (equivalent to the boundary between subzones c and d of the Scriniodinium crystallinum (=Scr) Zone). The point is located 0.02–0.24 m above the base of reversed magnetozone F3r. This magnetozone probably correlates with marine magnetic anomaly M26r but may correlate to the younger anomaly M25r. The point coin cides with a well-marked broad minimum in δ13C values and a calculated low Sr-isotope value of 0.70687. The section has yielded nannofossils that show that the potential last occurrence of Octopodorhabdus decussatus that marks the lower part of the NJ15 zone occurs about 1.09 m below the boundary. The thermal immaturity and unweathered nature of the strata in the Flodigarry section has permitted a direct Re-Os radio-isotopic age of 154.1±2.2 Ma to be obtained from the mudrocks 0.05 m below the Kimmeridgian GSSP. Sequence stratigraphic analysis indicates that the GSSP lies within the lower part of a highstand system tract. The corresponding stratigraphic level in the Submediterranean-Mediterranean successions is close to the boundary between the Hypselum and Bimammatum ammonite zones. The change in ammonite groups noted at this level provides biostratigraphic markers for further global correlation

    Concentraciones fosilíferas del Kimmeridgiano Superior en Mazapil, Zacatecas, México: Tafonomía e interpretación paleoambiental

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    Este último proyecto (Proyecto CGL2012-39835) y el Posgrado de Ciencias de la Tierra, UNAM; facilitaron la realización de una estancia de investigación de la primera autora en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad de Granada. Se reconocen las aportaciones de los revisores, Sara Alicia Quiroz Barroso y Miguel Agustín Téllez Duarte. Se agradece a Marco Antonio Argáez Martínez su apoyo en campo, elaboración de láminas delgadas y superficies pulidas.Como aproximación preliminar al estudio detallado de concentraciones fosilíferas en el Jurásico Superior de México, se analizan las registradas en una sucesión de 410 cm de espesor de la Formación La Caja, perteneciente al Kimmeridgiano tardío, la cual aflora en el Cañón de San Matías. Mazapil, Zacatecas. Las observaciones litoestratigráficas, sedimentológicas, paleontológicas, bioestratigráficas y tafonómicas se realizaron estrato a estrato con resolución centimétrica. El estudio taxonómico y bioestratigráfico se centró en las asociaciones de macroinvertebrados, esencialmente ammonites. El análisis tafonómico se realizó sobre 1175 restos cuya composición responde a la de comunidades neríticas (ammonites 53 %, aptychi 27 %, bivalvos 18 % y gasterópodos 2 %) que se depositaron en profundidades menores que las de implosión para las carcasas de ammonites. En ámbito de plataforma sin evidencias de relieves pronunciados, se interpreta un contexto eco- sedimentario de baja energía (floatstone-wackestone de bioclastos y wackestone de radiolarios; existen parches locales de packstone), con depósito de limolitas incipiente e irregularmente calcáreas asociadas a un ambiente de plataforma sin evidencias de relieves pronunciados. Son características la ausencia de superficies de erosión expresivas, deslizamientos sinsedimentarios, aportes exóticos, y estructuras sedimentarias inequívocamente relacionadas con oleaje, así como el predominio de laminaciones paralelas y/o suavemente oblicuas. Las condiciones ecológicas incluyeron fondos disaeróbicos-poikiloaeróbicos con escaso registro de bentos in situ, y ferruginización frecuente relacionada con concentraciones de materia orgánica, así como inestabilidades en la columna de agua que afectarían a las comunidades de organismos pelágicos y bentónicos generando incrementos en la exportación de restos al fondo. Las concentraciones fosilíferas registradas son más expresivas hacia la base y techo de los estratos, son discontinuas y su configuración macroscópica responde a la de pavimentos y capas de conchas (shell beds). Se interpretan como eventitas distales resultantes de procesos con energía efectiva variable (huracanes, tormentas, corrientes de fondo ligadas a tormentas, aventamientos), cuya incidencia alcanzó sectores proximales de la plataforma externa en torno al nivel de base de tormentas. Secuencias de redepósito incompletas se relacionan con eventos de mayor energía efectiva y sobreimposición de horizontes. El patrón de la secuencia de redepósito tipo responde a eventos energéticos, disipación progresiva pero rápida de la energía, y retorno a condiciones eco-sedimentarias normales para el sector según el registro estratigráfico. La dinámica eco-sedimentaria propuesta para la sucesión estudiada en el perfil Cañón de San Matías responde a rupturas de equilibrio ambiental con periodos de recurrencia de rango inferior al de la resolución bioestratigráfica en ámbito de plataforma, sin evidencias de relieves próximos, ni de la existencia de ruptura de plataforma ni talud continental en el área, durante el intervalo estudiado del Kimmeridgiano tardío.A 410 cm thick succession of late Kimmeridgian deposits belonging to the La Caja Fm. has been analyzed in the San Matias Canyon as preliminary approach to the study of fossil concentrations in the Upper Jurassic of Mexico. Lithostratigraphic, sedimentologic, taxonomic, biostratigraphic and taphonomic observations based on a bed-by-bed sampling with centimeter scale resolution. Taxonomic and biostratigraphic analyses focused on macroinvertebrate assemblages, mainly ammonites. The taphonomic analysis applied to 1175 fossil remains of neritic communities (ammonites 53 %, aptychi 27 %, bivalves 18 % and gastropods 2 %), accumulated in depths lesser than those estimated for implosion of ammonite carcasses. Within a shelf-area without evidence of high-irregular seabeds, an eco-sedimentary context of low energy agrees with depositional conditions resulting in lithofacies of floatstone-wackestone of bioclasts and wackestone of radiolaria, together with local patches of packstone and the intercalation of calcareous siltstone. In addition, low energy conditions are in accordance with the absence of expressive erosion surfaces, synsedimentary sliding, exotic clasts, and sedimentary structures typically related to wave action, as well as with the common occurrence of parallel and/or subtle oblique laminations. Ecological conditions included disaerobic-poikiloaerobic seabeds with rare record of benthos in situ, common ferruginization related to organic matter-rich sediments, and water column instabilities affecting pelagic and benthic communities resulting in increased accumulation of skeletals remains on the seabed. The recorded fossiliferous concentrations are more evident to the bottom and top surfaces of beds, they are discontinuous, and their macroscopic biofabric corresponds to pavements and shell beds. These fossil-rich horizons are interpreted as distal eventites resulting from turbulence events of variable effective energy (hurricanes, storms, storm-forced bottom currents, and winnowing), the influence of which reached proximal sectors of the outer shelf at depths close to the storm wave base. Incomplete sequences related to reworking are interpreted as resulting from events of higher-than-background effective energy and over-imposition of depositional horizons. The pattern of the type sequence of re-deposition related to the succession of higher-than-background energy events, progressive but rapid dissipation of energy, and the return to background eco-sedimentary conditions. The eco-sedimentary dynamics proposed for the succession analyzed at the San Matias Canyon, Mazapil, Zacatecas, indicates pulses of paleoenvironmental instability within a neritic shelf, and with recurrence periods shorter than the range of biostratigraphic resolution. No evidence of high-irregular seabeds has been found in the surrounding area nor the occurrence of the shelf-break and slope in the area during the investigated stratigraphic interval of late Kimmeridgian age.Esta investigación fue apoyada por los proyectos UNAM-DGAPA-PAPIIT IN105311-3, IN102016, y el Proyecto CGL2012-39835 del Ministerio de Industria Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), España

    Historia del conocimiento de los Ammonites del Jurásico de España: l. los tiempos de José Torrubia (1754)

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    The first published Jurassic Ammonites from Spain in the Aparato para la Historia Natural Española of José Torrubia (1754) is described here with plates depicting some Ammonite fossils atributed by Torrubia to «cornu ammonis». An evaluarían of the knowledge of Torrubia about the contemporaneus pa/aeontologicalliterature and the controversies about the petrifications is made

    Experimentos de identificación monodactilar en la Universidad de Madrid

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    Publicado por la Rev. de Legislación y Jurisprudencia

    El laboratorio de antropología de la Facultad de Medicina de Madrid/ por el Dr. D. Federico Olóriz

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    En la port.: Trabajo publicado en la Revista Ibero-Americana de Ciencias Médicas correspondiente al mes de Marzo de 1899Enc. Pape

    Recuerdos de una visita á la colonia escolar fundada por D. Andrés Manjon : relato hecho en el Ateneo de Madrid en sesión dedicada á propagar las fundaciones de Manjón

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    Il. fot. retrato de Andrés Manjón en p. 4, intercalada en el text
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