Bivalves from the Tuxpan Formation [middle Miocene], State of Veracruz, Mexico

Abstract

A new species of the genus Pycnodonte Fischer de Waldheini; 1835, of the Family Gryphaeidae and six other species of bivalves are described from the Tuxpan Formation of middle Miocene age of the northern part of the State of Veracruz. The new species is compared with the known species of the genus of the Tertiary Caribbean Molluscan Faunal Province. The geographic distribution of this genus is extended, as well as that of other six bivalve middle Miocene species of the Tuxpan Formation... In order to continue, download full text in PDF.