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The supposed vestige of a cephalopod gladius from Turonian platy limestones at Vallecillo, north-east Mexico, named Palaeoctopus pelagicus by Fuchs et al. in 2008, is reinterpreted and shown to be a gular plate of a coelacanth fish, possibly of the genus Megacoelacanthus. In addition to the gular plate, two extrascapulars and fin rays of all fins are preserved on one slab and its counterpart. This is the first record of a coelacanth from these lower Turonian strata at Vallecillo, which are rich in fish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within Mexico's peasant communities of Indian origin, popular religiousness is a phenomenon that surpasses by far the piety and devotion field. It is constituted as a complex demonstration where religious, economical, political, social and identity elements converge and where the dialectical relationship between minority cultural groups facing Mexican State's political and religious hegemonies is put at stake. The social organization interwoven in popular religious practices grants the possibility of a continuance of ancestral visions of the world and reinforces regional identity links. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]