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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>B.S. Norford</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>J. Pojeta Jr.</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1987</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;div class="abstract-content"&gt;&lt;div class="abstract" data-abstract-type="normal"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The pelecypod genera&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="italic"&gt;Slava&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;and&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="italic"&gt;Rhombopteria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;are reported for the first time from Canada, where they occur in a limestone concretion within the Cape Phillips Formation, Cornwallis Island, Arctic Archipelago. These genera are characteristic of Silurian rocks in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. Graptolites from the same concretion indicate the&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="italic"&gt;Monograptus ludensis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Zone (uppermost Wenlockian); this age is substantiated by associated conodonts, trilobites, vertebrates, and pelecypods but with less precision. It is difficult to explain the occurrence of Slava and&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="italic"&gt;Rhombopteria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;in the middle of Laurentia on the basis of some map reconstructions of the Wenlockian world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Canadian material of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="italic"&gt;Slava novaterra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;n. sp. and&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="italic"&gt;Rhombopteria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;cf.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="italic"&gt;R. mira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;(Barrande) is described.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="italic"&gt;Leptodesma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;(&lt;span class="italic"&gt;Leptodesma&lt;/span&gt;) sp. A and an indeterminate grammysiid pelecypod from the same concretion are illustrated. Information is provided to show that&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="italic"&gt;Newsomella&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Foerste, from Wenlockian–Ludlovian rocks of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Tennessee, is not a subgenus of&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="italic"&gt;Rhombopteria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Jackson.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1017/S0022336000028675</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Paleontological Society</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>A Bohemian-type Silurian (Wenlockian) pelecypod faunule from Arctic Canada</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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