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      Mid-late Cenomanian larger benthic foraminifers from the El Abra Formation W Valles-San Luis Potosi Platform, central-eastern Mexico: Taxonomy, biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental implications Translated title: Grandes foraminaferos bentónicos del Cenomaniano medio-tardío de la Formación El Abra, Plataforma de Valles-San Luis Potosí, México centrooriental: Taxonomía, bioestratigrafía e implicaciones paleoambientales

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          Abstract The Valles-San Luis Potosí Platform is part of an extensive carbonate platform system that rimmed the ancestral Gulf of Mexico during the middle (Albian) through Upper Cretaceous. The El Abra Formation consists of a shallow-water deposit; it contains a benthic foraminiferal assemblage that includes 18 species, which are described and illustrated in this paper. The studied successions from the upper part of the El Abra Formation were dated as mid-late Cenomanian. On the basis of these findings, two zones are proposed Pseudolituonella reicheli Assemblage Zone and Nezzazatinella picardi Interval Zone. The first Assemblage Zone is characterized by an abundant benthic foraminiferal association. It is overlain by the Nezzazatinella picardi Interval Zone where the species richness of the fora-miniferal assemblage is reduced and later disappears. The benthic foraminiferal demise is coincident with major sea-level changes and an increase in siliciclastic input from the hemipelagic deposit of the Soyatal Formation, which contains abundant pithonellids and r and r-k strategist planktic foraminifera (Whiteinella archaeo-cretacea Partial Range Zone). Two stratigraphically correlative facies have been recognized in the El Abra Formation: the Taninul and the El Abra Facies. A warm, shallow-water, open marine platform deposit (Taninul Facies) is inferred. It includes peloidal-foraminiferal packstone, packstone-grainstone, and packstone- wackestone. A restricted environment (El Abra Facies) can be deduced from the abundant miliolids and ostreids. The texture is a wackestone-packstone. Another microfacies (Soyatal Formation) consists of wackestone-packstone with an acme of pithonellids and the occurrence of r and r-k strategist planktic foraminifers deposited during the platform drowning.

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          Resumen La Plataforma Valles-San Luis Potosí es parte de un sistema de plataformas extenso que se encontraba bordeando el antiguo Golfo de México en el Albiano hasta el Cretácico Superior. La caliza El Abra es un depósito de aguas poco profundas; ésta contiene un conjunto de foraminíferos bentónicos que incluye 18 especies, que se describen e ilustran en este documento. Las sucesiones estudiadas de la parte superior de la Formación de El Abra fueron datadas como del Cenomaniano medio- tardío; se proponen dos zonas (Zona de Conjunto Pseudolituonella reicheli y Zona de Intervalo Nezzazatinella picardi). La primera Zona de Conjunto se caracteriza por una asociación abundante de foraminíferos bentónicos. Está sobreyacida por la Zona de Intervalo Nezzazatinella picardi donde se reduce la riqueza de especies de las asociaciones de foraminíferos y luego desaparece. La desaparición de foraminíferos bentónicos es coincidente con grandes cambios de nivel del mar y un aumento en el aporte de sedimentos desde el depósito hemipelágico de la Formación Soyatal que contiene abundantes pithonélidos y foraminíferos planctónicos de estrategía r y r-k (Zona de Alcance Parcial (Whiteinella archaeocretacea)). Dos facies estratigráficamente correlacionables han sidoreconocidas en la Formación El Abra: la Facies Taninul y la Facies El Abra. Se infiere un depósito de plataforma marina abierta de aguas cálidas someras (Facies Taninul). Ésta incluye un packstone peloidal con foraminíferos, packstone y packstone-wackestone. Un ambiente restringido (Facies El Abra) puede deducirse por los abundantes miliólidos y ostreídos. La textura de la roca es un wackestone-packstone. Otra microfacies consiste de un wackestone-packstone con un auge de pithonélidos y la presencia de foraminíferos de estrategia r y r-k depositados durante la inundación de la plataforma (Formación Soyatal).

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                Journal
                bsgm
                Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana
                Bol. Soc. Geol. Mex
                Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, A.C. (México, DF, Mexico )
                1405-3322
                2019
                : 71
                : 3
                : 691-725
                Affiliations
                [3] Coyoacán orgnameUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México orgdiv1Facultad de Ciencias Mexico
                [2] orgnameUniversidad Autónoma de San Luís Potosí orgdiv1Instituto de Geología Mexico
                [1] Coyoacán orgnameUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México orgdiv1Instituto de Geologia orgdiv2Departamento de Paleontología Mexico lomanya@ 123456geología.unam.mx
                Article
                S1405-33222019000300691 S1405-3322(19)07100300691
                10.18268/bsgm2019v71n3a5
                aae0a86f-0311-40f7-88f0-b1334d1e75fd

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 11 May 2018
                : 05 April 2018
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                Mexico,San Luis Potosí,Cenomaniano,foraminíferos bentónicos,Formación El Abra,México,Cenomanian,El Abra Formation,benthic foraminifers

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