Ichnofossils in a fluvial-lacustrine succession in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Durango, Mexico.
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At the south of the Garame de Abajo town, Durango state, through field work a lithological succession not previously described in the geological literature was studied, in which there exists a trace of fossils that are identified with the ichnogenera Planolites, Palaeophycus and Camborygma. The amounts of trace fossils are scarce, but the ichnocoenosis may correspond to the Scoyenia ichnofacies. The ichnogenera are in a stratigraphic succession composed of five lithological units formed by siliciclasts, carbonates and tuffs, which are included together in a group that is informally designated as Garame. The lithology and sedimentary structures linked to the ichnogenera, as well as microbial mats, rhizoliths, fossil wood and palynomorphs, suggest that the ascending succession of facies varies from alluvial to fluvial-lacustrine, deposited in a subaerial continental paleoenvironment. Detrital zircons, pollen and stratigraphic position under the volcanic cover of the Sierra Madre Occidental suggest a possible Cretaceous-Paleogenic age, with structural shortening.
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