Recently added articles from Journal of Paleontology:
FAUNAS AND CAMBRIAN VOLCANISM ON THE AVALONIAN MARGINAL PLATFORM, SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK
Sep 01, 2008; Landing, Ed; Johnson, Susan C; Geyer, Gerd ... ABSTRACT- The Cambrian inlier at Beaver Harbour, southern New Brunswick, is now confidently referred to the marginal platform of the late Proterozoic-Early Paleozoic Avalon microcontinent. The sub-trilobitic Lower Cambrian Chapel Island and Random Formations are unconformably overlain by ...
MIOSPORES AND CRYPTOSPORES FROM THE SILURIAN SECTION AT ALLENPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
Sep 01, 2008; Beck, John H; Strother, Paul K ... ABSTRACT- Non-marine and marine palynomorphs were collected from a Telychian through Gorstian rock outcrop located near Allenport, Pennsylvania, USA in the east-central part of the Appalachian Foreland Basin. Close sampling of the section revealed six distinct palynological assemblages ...
LOWERMOST SILURIAN GRAPTOLITES OF MONTAGNE NOIRE, FRANCE
Sep 01, 2008; Storch, Petr; Feist, Raimund ... ABSTRACT- Twenty-seven graptolite species are reported from the lowermost Silurian (Rhuddanian) ascensus-acuminatus and vesiculosus biozones of Montagne Noire in southwestern France. Four species are left in open nomenclature, four are new: Normalograptus crassus, Neodiplograptus lautus, ...
NEW FORAMINIFERS IN THE VISEAN/SERPUKHOVIAN BOUNDARY INTERVAL OF THE LOWER LIMESTONE FORMATION, MIDLAND VALLEY, SCOTLAND
Sep 01, 2008; Cózar, Pedro; Somerville, Ian D; Burgess, Iain ... ABSTRACT- The biostratigraphy of the upper part of the Mississippian Lower Limestone Formation in the Midland Valley, Scotland is revised using foraminiferal assemblages. This formation was previously assigned exclusively to the upper part of the Brigantian Substage (upper Cf6δ, ...
EARLIEST WUCHIAPINGIAN (LOPINGIAN, LATE PERMIAN) BRACHIOPODS IN SOUTHERN HUNAN, SOUTH CHINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PRE-LOPINGIAN CRISIS AND ONSET OF LOPINGIAN RECOVERY/RADIATION
Sep 01, 2008; Shen, Shu-Zhong; Zhang, Yi-Chun ... ABSTRACT- The uppermost 5-15 m of the Douling Formation in the southern Hunan area. South China, yields a diverse fauna comprised of ammonoids, bivalves, and brachiopods. The brachiopods reported in this paper consist of 51 species in 34 genera and are dominated by the Lopingian (Late ...
BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY OF MIDDLE AND LATE ORDOVICIAN CONODONTS FROM THE LANGKAWI ISLANDS, NORTHWESTERN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA
Sep 01, 2008; Agematsu, Sachiko; Sashida, Katsuo; Ibrahim, Amnan B ... ABSTRACT- The Middle and Upper Ordovician sequence of the Langkawi Islands, northwestern peninsular Malaysia, contains 20 species of conodonts belonging to 15 genera and four unidentified species, which are described and illustrated. The following four biostratigraphic zones are ...
THE PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT IN CYMATOGRAPTUS (GRAPTOLOIDEA) FROM ARGENTINA AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR THE EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE DICHOGRAPTACEA
Sep 01, 2008; Toro, Blanca A; Maletz, Jörg ... ABSTRACT- Cymatograptus bidextro sp. nov. from the Floian "Baltograptus deflexus" Biozone of northwest Argentina represents the oldest expansograptid with an artus type proximal development and a prosicular origin of the first theca. The species bears a variably dextral or sinistral ...
FAMENNIAN CHONDRICHTHYAN MICROREMAINS FROM MOROCCO AND SARDINIA
Sep 01, 2008; Derycke, Claire; Spalletta, Claudia; Perri, Maria Cristina; Corradini, Carlo ... ABSTRACT- New material from the Famennian of Morocco in the southern Maider comprises chondrichthyan teeth (Thrinacodus, Cobelodus, Denaea, Stethacanthus), actinopterygian remains (scales, teeth and hemilepidotrichium) and one acanthodian scale. The absence of crushing teeth suggests ...
FOSSIL CERATIOID ANGLERFISHES (TELEOSTEI: LOPHIIFORMES) FROM THE MIOCENE OF THE LOS ANGELES BASIN, CALIFORNIA
Sep 01, 2008; Carnevale, Giorgio; Pietsch, Theodore W; Takeuchi, Gary T; Huddleston, Richard W ... ABSTRACT- Fossil ceratioid anglerfishes are described from the Upper Miocene (upper Mohnian) deposits of the Puente Formation, Los Angeles Basin, California. The specimens were collected from the laminated turbiditic deposits of the Yorba Member in the eastern sector of the Los Angeles ...
THE BEAVER ANCHITHERIOMYS FROM THE MIOCENE OF CENTRAL EUROPE
Sep 01, 2008; Stefen, Clara; Mörs, Thomas ... ABSTRACT- New finds of teeth and mandibles of Anchitheriomys from the Hambach opencast lignite mine in Northwest Germany and the first detailed descriptions of other mandibles from South Germany and Switzerland allow a review of the Central European specimens of this rare beaver genus ....
NEW EOCENE HYDROCARBON SEEP DECAPOD CRUSTACEAN (ANOMURA: GALATHEIDAE: SHINKAIINAE) AND ITS PALEOBIOLOGY
Sep 01, 2008; Schweitzer, Carrie E; Feldmann, Rodney M ... ABSTRACT- A new decapod crustacean species, Shinkaia katapsyxis, is reported from the Eocene Humptulips Formation of western Washington, USA. The specimens were collected from a hydrocarbon seep deposit that has been well-documented and contains a well-described molluscan fauna. The new ...
EKALAKIA (DECAPODA: BRACHYURA): THE PRESERVATION OF EYES LINKS CRETACEOUS CRABS TO JURASSIC ANCESTORS
Sep 01, 2008; Feldmann, Rodney M; Schweitzer, Carrie E; Wahl, William R ... ABSTRACT- Description of a new species of crab, Ekalakia exophthalmops, brings to two the number of species within this Late Cretaceous genus from the upper mid-west in North America. Discovery of eyes and orbital structures in both species permits placement of the genus within the ...
HERBIVORY IN GINGERS FROM LATEST CRETACEOUS TO PRESENT: IS THE ICHNOGENUS CEPHALOLEICHNITES (HISPINAE, COLEOPTERA) A ROLLED-LEAF BEETLE?
Sep 01, 2008; García-Robledo, Carlos; Staines, Charles L ... INTRODUCTION IT IS suggested that rolled-leaf hispine beetles (Hispinae, Coleoptera) and plants from the order Zingiberales maintained a highly specialized plant-herbivore interaction for >60 My. The evidence supporting this old and conservative interaction are herbivory marks found ...
LATE PERMIAN (LOPINGIAN) GASTROPODS FROM THE QUBUERGA FORMATION AT THE QUBU SECTION IN THE MT. EVEREST (QOMOLANGMA) REGION, SOUTHERN TIBET (XIZANG), CHINA
Sep 01, 2008; Hua-Zhang, Pan; Shu-Zhong, Shen ... LATE PERMIAN gastropod fauna in the Mt. Everest (Qomolangma) region, southern Tibet (Xizang), China is poorly known. This paper describes a small gastropod fauna collected by one of the authors (SSZ) from the upper part of the Qubuerga Formation at the Qubu section. The section is located at ...
PERMIAN COLONIAL RUGOSE CORALS FROM THE WRANGELLIAN TERRANE IN ALASKA
Sep 01, 2008; Stevens, Calvin H ... INTRODUCTION WRANGELLIA WAS one of the first described and probably the most widely known of the North American Cordilleran terranes. On the basis of Triassic stratigraphy (Jones et al., 1977) and paleomagnetism (Mulhouse, 1977), the name Wrangellia was proposed for large areas of ...