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Science 13 April 1973:
Vol. 180. no. 4082, pp. 188 - 190
DOI: 10.1126/science.180.4082.188
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Permian Ammonoid Cyclolobus from the Zewan Formation, Guryul Ravine, Kashmir

W. M. Furnish 1, Brian F. Glenister 1, Keiji Nakazawa 2, and Hari Mohan Kapoor 3

1 Department of Geology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242
2 Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Kyoto University, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, Japan
3 Geological Survey of India, 3, Gokhale Marg, Lucknow, India

Ammonoid cephalopods serve significantly as a basis for correlation of strata near the boundary between the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Erathems. This is a report of the diagnostically Late Permian (uppermost Paleozoic) ammonoid Cyclolobus walkeri (Diener, 1903) from the Zewan Formation 20 meters below the Permian-Triassic contact at the classic section in Guryul Ravine, Srinagar region, Kashmir.

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