- Tytuł:
- New genus of dimeropygid trilobites from the earliest Ordovician of Laurentia
- Autorzy:
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Adrain, J.M.
Westrop, S.R. - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/21221.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2006
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
- Tematy:
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Dimeropygidae
Hystricuridae
Ordovician
silicified fossil
Trilobita
dimeropygid trilobite
new genus
paleontology
trilobite
fossil
Ibexian
locality
stratigraphy
ecology
systematics - Opis:
- The new genus Tulepyge includes a type species, T. tulensis nov., from the Barn Canyon Member of the House Formation, western Utah, USA, and T. paucituberculata from the Broom Point Member of the Green Point Formation, western Newfoundland, Canada. Both species are earliest Ordovician in age, with occurrence immediately above the Cambrian–Ordovician boundary. Together with the hystricurid taxon Millardicurus, the new genus is likely to serve as an indicator fossil for the Cambrian–Ordovician boundary in Laurentia, as it is already known from different biofacies on opposite margins of the continent. Tulepyge is not closely comparable with contemporaneous taxa assigned to Hystricuridae but in its dorsally convex and coarsely tuberculate exoskeleton it resembles taxa which have been referred to Dimeropygidae, most of which are considerably younger in age.
- Źródło:
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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2006, 51, 3
0567-7920 - Pojawia się w:
- Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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