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Trilobites from Lower Mississippian starved basin facies of the southern United States

Journal of Paleontology
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Abstract

A distinctive trilobite fauna occurs within condensed stratigraphic sections of the Lower Mississippian (Tournaisian) Chappel Limestone of the Llano region of Texas, the Welden Limestone of Oklahoma, and the Chouteau Limestone of Union County, Illinois. The seven species comprising this fauna are interpreted to have inhabited sediment-starved basinal environments. The starved-basin facies existed in the south-central United States throughout the Tournaisian (Kinderhookian to Osagean). Two species from this fauna, Australosutura llanoensis, and Carbonocoryphe planucauda, are new. The remaining five species, Griffithidella doris (Hall), Griffithidella alternata (Girty), Carbonocoryphe depressa (Girty), Thigiffides roundyi (Girty), and Pudoproetus chappelensis (Hessler), are restricted to starved-basin facies.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Trilobites from Lower Mississippian starved basin facies of the southern United States
Series title Journal of Paleontology
Volume 72
Issue 4
Year Published 1998
Language English
Publisher Oxford Academic
Description 8 p.
First page 718
Last page 725
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