New Archaeocyatha from the Early Cambrian of the Mt. Wright area,New South Wales |
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| Authors: | Peter D Kruse |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geology &2. Geophysics , University of Sydney , Sydney, N.S.W., Australia , 2006 |
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| Abstract: | An archaeocyathan fauna from a single limestone lens in the upper Cymbric Vale Formation at Mt. Wright shows species in common with the historic Ajax Mine fauna of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. The Cymbric Vale fauna is considered equivalent to the lower Sanashtykgol ‘horizon’ of the Altay Sayan fold belt of Siberia. New taxa described are the genera Hyptocyathus (Inessocyathacea, Hyptocyathidae fam. nov.), Aporosocyathus (Annulocyathidae), Wrighticyathus (Sigmocyathacea, Wrighticyathidae fam. nov.), Flexicyathus (Porocoscinidae) and Bractocyathus (Polycoscinidae), and the species Erugatocyathus cymbricensis and Veronicacyathus concavus. |
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| Keywords: | Ensifera Liassophyllum systematics morphology Jiulongshan Formation Daohugou |
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