Recently added articles from Journal of Paleontology:
THE CORYNEXOCHINA (TRILOBITA): A POORLY UNDERSTOOD SUBORDER
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT- Trilobites of this suborder from Europe and North America have not been studied in detail, in contrast to the attention given to relationships within the orders Agnostida and Ptychopariina. The basis of the Corynexochina is the type species of Corynexochus from the middle ...
NEW PERMIAN FUSULINIDS FROM CONGLOMERATE MESA, SOUTHEASTERN INYO MOUNTAINS, EAST-CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT- In the Conglomerate Mesa area in the southeastern Inyo Mountains, east-central California, a series of distinctive fusulinid assemblages ranging in age from late Artinskian to Kungurian or Roadian was developed in units 7-10 of the sedimentary rocks of Santa Rosa Hat (part of ...
BASAL CAMBRIAN MICROFOSSILS FROM THE YANGTZE GORGES AREA (SOUTH CHINA) AND THE AKSU AREA (TARIM BLOCK, NORTHWESTERN CHINA)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT- The basal Cambrian marks the beginning of an important chapter in the history of life. However, most paleontological work on the basal Cambrian has been focused on skeletal animal fossils, and our knowledge about the primary producers-cyanobacteria and eukaryotic phytoplankton ...
THE COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY OF A NEW LOWER SILURIAN ASTEROID (ECHINODERMATA)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT- Gordonaster brassfieldensis is a new genus and species of Asteroidea (Echinodermata) described from the Lower Silurian Brassfield Formation of east-central Kentucky. Tentatively assigned to the poorly understood Palaeasteridae, Gordonaster shares much with Ordovician asteroids, ...
PRE- AND POSTMORTEM SKELETAL MODIFICATIONS OF THE CUPRESSOCRINITIDAE (CRINOIDEA, CLADIDA)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT- The discovery of new specimens and restudy of known collections resulted in revision of some members of the cladid crinoid family Cupressocrinitidae. "Cupressocrinites gracilis" is genetically separated from Cupressocrinites whereby "Procupressocrinus" is resurrected from ...
PROTOSALVINIA DAWSON AND ASSOCIATED CONODONTS OF THE UPPER TRACHYTERA ZONE, FAMENNIAN, UPPER DEVONIAN, IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT- Protosalvinia first occur in association with conodonts of the Upper trachytera Zone and below the Three Lick Bed in the Ohio Shale and the Ellicott Shale of the central and northern Appalachian Basin, as well as in the Clegg Creek Member of the New Albany Shale of the Illinois ...
NEW CHARACTERS FOR SPECIES DISCRIMINATION WITHIN THE GENUS PROLAGUS (OCHOTONIDAE, LAGOMORPHA, MAMMALIA)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT- The genus Prolagus is very common in the Neogene and Quaternary of Europe, western Asia and northern Africa. However, the complexity of its systematics, mainly based on p3 characters that show great inter- and intraspecific variability, led to an under-utilization of Prolagus ...
TAXONOMY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE LATE ALBIAN ACTINOCERAMUS SULCATUS LINEAGE (EARLY CRETACEOUS BIVALVIA, INOCERAMIDAE)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT- The Actinoceramus sulcatus lineage (Parkinson, 1819) (Bivalvia: Inoceramidae) is a very distinctive and abundant component of late Albian (Early Cretaceous) molluscan assemblages that is found throughout Europe, Central Asia, Japan and the Far East of Russia, southern and ...
TUBULAR COMPRESSION FOSSILS FROM THE EDIACARAN NAMA GROUP, NAMIBIA
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT- Abundant tubular macrofossils occur in finely laminated siltstones and shales of the 548-542 Ma Schwarzrand Subgroup, Nama Group, Namibia. The Nama tubes occur in both the Vingerbreek and Feldschuhhorn members commonly in dense populations and always in fine-grained, lower ...
THE OLDEST CEPHALOPODS FROM EAST LAURENTIA
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION CAMBRIAN CEPHALOPODS are presently reported only from tropical, carbonate platform successions that occur on a number of paleocontinents. Outside of West Gondwanan occurrences on the eastern Sino-Korean Platform in China, the record of Cambrian cephalopods is limited, and ...
THE YOUNGEST CAMBROCLAVES: CAMBROCLAVUS ABSONUS FROM THE MIDDLE CAMBRIAN OF THE CANTABRIAN ZONE (NORTHWEST SPAIN)
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION CAMBROCLAVES ARE Cambrian phosphatized problematica. The group is known from spine-like remains that are locally abundant on a number of Cambrian paleocontinents. Cambroclaves are known through a relatively short time interval (late Early Cambrian-early Middle Cambrian) ...
A NEW SPECIES OF THE DUAL-MOUTHED PARACRINOID BISTOMIACYSTIS AND A REDESCRIPTION OF THE EDRIOASTEROID EDRIOASTER PRISCUS FROM THE UPPER ORDOVICIAN CURDSVILLE MEMBER OF THE LEXINGTON LIMESTONE
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION ECHINODERMS ARE important faunal components in the Curdsville Member of the Lexington Limestone. Numerous clades are represented, including Crinoidea (Springer, 1911; Parsley, 1981), Paracrinoidea (Parsley and Mintz, 1975; Parsley, 1981), Cyclocystoidea (undescribed), ...
WALKING TRAILS OF THE GIANT TERRESTRIAL ARTHROPOD ARTHROPLEURA FROM THE UPPER CARBONIFEROUS OF KENTUCKY
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION ARTHROPLEURIDS WERE terrestrial, millipede-like arthropods. The genus Arthropleura Jordan from the Upper Carboniferous reached an enormous size of 2 m or more in length (Hahn et al., 1986). Occurrences are rare and the chronologic and paleogeographic distribution of ...
PERMIAN HYOLITHIDA FROM AUSTRALIA: THE LAST OF THE HYOLITHS?
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Class HYOLiTHA Marek, 1963 encompassing the Order Hyolithida Sysoev, 1957 (Early Cambrian to Upper Permian) and Order Orthothecida Marek, 1966 (Early Cambrian to Early Devonian) consists of a group of conical, calcareous-shelled invertebrates of controversial affinity. One ...
DESCRIPTION OF NEOLIODES DOMINICUS N. SP. (ACARI, ORIBATIDA) FROM DOMINICAN AMBER, AIDED BY SYNCHROTRON X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION THE NEARLY ubiquitous mite suborder Oribatida, which comprises mostly mycophages and saprophages in organic soil horizons, has a long geological history. Early derivative taxa are known from middle and late Devonian deposits (Norton et al., 1988; Subías and Arillo, 2002) and ...
FROM THE EDITORS
Nov 01, 2008; ... With this issue, we have completed our second year as the editors of the Journal of Paleontology. Last year in this forum, we discussed our plan and the steps we were taking to reduce the time between final acceptance of a manuscript and publication of the article. We can now announce that, with ...
A MIXED ISOGRAPTID-DIDYMOGRAPTID GRAPTOLITE ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN OF WEST GONDWANA (NW BOLIVIA): IMPLICATIONS FOR GRAPTOLITE PALEOECOLOGY
Nov 01, 2008; ... Abstract- Black shales of the Coroico Formation are part of a thick succession of Lower and Middle Ordovician strata that were deposited in the Cordillera Oriental foreland basin along the margin of West Gondwana. The basin was inhabited primarily by a cool-water, Atlantic-type ...
ATTRIBUTES OF THE CERATOPSIAN DINOSAUR TOROSAURUS, AND NEW MATERIAL FROM THE JAVELINA FORMATION (MAASTRICHTIAN) OF TEXAS
Nov 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT- A bone bed in the middle part of the Javelina Formation (Maastrichtian) in Texas yielded parts of about 37 identifiable ceratopsid dinosaur bones, mostly appendicular and limb girdle elements belonging to one juvenile and two adult individuals of Torosaurus cf. utahensis. The ...
GENERIC CONCEPTS IN THE AMPHORACRINIDAE BATHER, 1899 (CLASS CRINOIDEA) AND EVALUATION OF GENERIC ASSIGNMENTS OF NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES
Nov 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT- The Amphoracrinidae Bather, 1899 is redefined, and all genera of this family are diagnosed with objective characters. Dilatocrinus Webster and Lane, 1987 and Pimlicocrinus Wright, 1943 are transferred into the Amphoracrinidae. Type specimens that define Displodocrinus Webster ...
VETUPRAECA N. GEN. AND MUCOPRAECA N. GEN. (CRYPTODONTA, BIVALVIA): A REAPPRAISAL OF LATE DEVONIAN BIVALVES FROM THE HERCYNIAN FACIES
Nov 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT - Bivalves from the Late Devonian pelagic or Hercynian Facies of classical regions such as eastern North America and Europe have not been investigated for almost a century. A group of small, radially ribbed bivalves frequently occurs in association with ammonoids and ...