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"Mexican Geology.
Carboniferous (Cant and Permian) in Coahuila
and Nuevo Leon (Foage and Hues from
privately printed 1854 Philadelphia). Also on
borders of Mexico and Guatemala; in
Nicaragua with underlying Permian and un-
derlying Silurian and Devonian (Crawford
1890, Ann. Set. VI)
Cretaceous. Shifor level in Central Mexico 10,000 ft.
[Dono].
Triassic type in Sonora (Menthy 1876), Puebla
and Oaxaca (Gquidera-Ordony 1893).
Menthy collects M-Cordaria plants.
Jurassic. "Smaller Jurassic areas are laid down
in Castillo's geologic map of Mexico, in the
states of Sonora, Coahuila, San Luis Potosi,
Gueretaro, Hidalgo, Puebla, and others
near the eastern border of the great central
plateau, and also in Colima near the coast.
The beds, according to Gquidera and Ordony
(1893), contain Goncellae, and Communities
of the genus Perisphinctes, and pass conformably
into the overlying Cretaceous." [Dano].
Lower Cretaceous. "The Lower Cretaceous, on the
map of Castillo (1891), extends nearly to the