“…Discussion.-Upper Tithonian occurrences of Kossmatia from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and the USA were reported by Burck hardt (1906,1912), Krantz (1928), Kellum (1937), Imlay (1943Imlay ( , 1980, Cantu-Chapa (1967, 1976a, 1982, 1993, Imlay and Jones (1970), Verma andWestermann (1973), Hoedemaeker (1987), Myczynski (1989), and Oloriz et al (1999). Kossmatia has also been recovered in the Indo-Pacific area (Sukamato and Westermann, 1992;Enay and Cariou, 1999;Fatmi and Zeiss, 1999) and Spain (Tavera-Benitez, 1985). However, reservations concerning its systematic position, age, and presence in Mexico, Cuba, and the USA (California, Texas) have been raised, as noted previously in this paper.…”