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<journal-id>1026-8774</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista mexicana de ciencias geológicas]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. mex. cienc. geol]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1026-8774</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geología]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1026-87742005000200261</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Diversidad de microfósiles en la Formación Tarahumara, Sonora]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Microfossil diversity in the Tarahumara Formation, Sonora]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Beraldi-Campesi]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Hugo]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Cevallos-Ferriz]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Sergio R. S.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Geología ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2005</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2005</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>22</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>261</fpage>
<lpage>271</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1026-87742005000200261&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1026-87742005000200261&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1026-87742005000200261&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN Una gran diversidad de microfósiles permineralizados se encuentran embebidos en pedernal asociado a estromatolitos que afl oran en la localidad de Huépac, en una secuencia volcanosedimentaria del Cretácico Superior (Turoniano-Maastrichtiano), perteneciente a la Formación Tarahumara, en Sonora, México. La diversidad está representada por fósiles de microalgas, polen, esporas, conidiosporas, fragmentos de plantas y de artrópodos, acritarcos y estructuras indefi nidas de origen biológico, que refl ejan el tipo de organismos que vivieron asociados al cuerpo de agua y parte de la biota circundante. Nuestras observaciones apoyan la interpretación de un ambiente de depósito lacustre asociado a magmatismo en esta porción de la Formación. Este trabajo documenta parte de la microflora y microfauna del Cretácico Superior del noroeste de México.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT A great diversity of permineralized microfossils are found embedded in chert associated to stromatolites that crop out in the Huépac locality, an Upper Cretaceous (Turonian-Maastrichtian) volcano-sedimentary sequence of the Tarahumara Formation, in Sonora, Mexico. The diversity is represented by fossils of microalgae, pollen, spores, conidiospores, fragments of plants and arthropods, achritarchs and undefi ned structures of biological origin, refl ecting the type of organisms that lived asssociated to the water body and part of the surrounding biota. Our observations support the interpretation of a lacustrine depositional environment associated to magmatism in this portion of the Formation. This work documents part of the Upper Cretaceous microfl ora and microfauna of the northwestern Mexico.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[microfósiles]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[estromatolitos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Formación Tarahumara]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Cretácico]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Huépac]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Sonora]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[México]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[microfossils]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[stromatolites]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Tarahumara Formation]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Cretaceous]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Huépac]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Sonora]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Mexico]]></kwd>
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