Late Ordovician articulate brachiopods from the Red River and Stony Mountain formations, southern Manitoba / Jisuo Jin and Ren-Bin Zhan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jin, Jisuo, 1957-

Contributor:

National Research Council Canada.

Zhan, Ren-Bin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brachiopoda, Fossil--Manitoba.

Brachiopoda, Fossil.

Paleontology--Ordovician.

Paleontology.

Animals, Fossil--Manitoba.

Animals, Fossil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (125 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : NRC Research Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Late Ordovician Epoch was marked by one of the two greatest global sea-level rises and inundations of the North American paleocontinent during the Phanerozoic (last 544 million years), accompanied by rapid diversification of invertebrate faunas in shallow, epicontinental seas.

Contents:

Intro

Cover page

Publishing information

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Abstract

Résumé

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Geological setting

Biostratigraphy

Paleoecology

The Kjaerina hartae Community

The Diceromyonia storeya Community

Paleobiogeography

Systematic Paleontology

Order Orthida Schuchert and Cooper, 1932

Superfamily Orthoidea Woodward, 1852

Family Plaesiomyidae Schuchert, 1913

Genus Dinorthis Hall and Clarke, 1982

Dinorthis occidentalis (Okulitch, 1943)

Family Plectorthidae Schuchert and LeVene, 1929

Genus Gnamptorhynchos Jin, 1989

Gnamptorhynchos manitobensis Jin and Zhan, 2000

Superfamily Dalmanelloidea Schuchert, 1913

Family Platyorthidae Harper, Boucot, and Walmsley, 1969

Genus Diceromyonia Wang, 1949

Diceromyonia storeya (Okulitch, 1943)

Order Strophomenida Öpik, 1934

Superfamily Plectambonitoidea Jones, 1928

Family Sowerbyellidae Öpik, 1930

Genus Thaerodonta Wang, 1949

Thaerodonta clarksvillensis (Foerste, 1912)

Superfamily Strophomenoidea King, 1846

Family Strophomenidae King, 1846

Genus Strophomena Rafinesque in de Blainville, 1824

Strophomena planumbona (Hall, 1847)

Strophomena vetusta James, 1874

Genus Nasutimena n. gen.

Nasutimena fluctuosa (Billings, 1860)

Nasutimena undulosa (Roy, 1941)

Genus Holtedahlina Foerste, 1924

Holtedahlina paraprostrata n. sp.

Genus Tetraphalerella Wang, 1949

Tetraphalerella neglecta (James, 1881)

Tetraphalerella churchillensis Jin, Caldwell, and Norford, 1997

Family Rafinesquinidae Schuchert, 1893

Genus Kjaerina Bancroft, 1929

Kjaerina hartae Jin, Caldwell, and Norford, 1995

Genus Megamyonia Wang, 1949

Megamyonia nitens (Billings, 1860)

Family Oepikinidae Sokolskaya, 1960

Genus Oepikina Salmon, 1942

Oepikina lata (Whiteaves, 1896).

Oepikina limbrata Wang, 1949

Order Pentamerida Schuchert and Cooper, 1931

Superfamily Porambonitoidea Davidson, 1853

Family Parastrophinidae Ulrich and Cooper, 1938

Genus Parastrophinella Schuchert and Cooper, 1931

Parastrophinella cirrita n. sp.

Order Rhynchonellida Kuhn, 1949

Superfamily Rhynchonelloidea Gray, 1848

Family Rhynchotrematidae Schuchert, 1913

Genus Rhynchotrema Hall, 1860

Rhynchotrema increbescens (Hall, 1847)

Rhynchotrema iowense Wang, 1949

Genus Lepidocyclus Wang, 1949

Lepidocyclus laddi Wang, 1949

Genus Hypsiptycha Wang, 1949

Hypsiptycha anticostiensis (Billings, 1862)

Hypsiptycha occidens (Wilson, 1926)

Genus Hiscobeccus Amsden, 1983

Hiscobeccus capax (Conrad, 1842)

Hiscobeccus gigas (Wang, 1949)

References

Appendix A: Ashgill brachiopod faunal data for paleobiographic analysis

Appendix B: Locality data

1. GSC localities

2. Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature (MMMN) collections

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Notes:

"A publication of the National Research Council of Canada Monograph Publishing Program".

"NRC no. 44455"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-65).

ISBN:

9786610452064

1-280-45206-4

1-4593-0339-3

OCLC:

756518972