A rich Early Triassic ammonoid fauna of 14 genera discovered near the village of Gornji Brčeli (Crmnica, southern Montenegro) contains the three new species Radioceras? tabulatum, Pseudoflemingites martellii and Parahedenstroemia petkovici which are described. They belong to a Middle Smithian (Owenites beds) fauna and represent a unique finding in the Lower Triassic of the western Tethys where otherwise shallow-water conditions prevailed. The ammonoids originate from a series of grey-green marls and clays with intercalated, thin, mica-rich dark grey sandstones, and point towards a deeper marine environment obviously with a close open-marine connection to the Tethys ocean.________________________________________________________________
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