
Mats Eriksson
Professor

Jawed polychaetes from the Upper Sylvan Shale (Upper Ordovician), Oklahoma, USA
Författare
Summary, in English
A jawed polychaete fauna from the upper 30 in of the Upper Ordovician Sylvan Shale (Richmondian, Ash-ill) of Oklahoma is described, based on recovered scolecodonts (polychaete jaws). The fauna includes members of six families: Paulinitidae, Ramphoprionidae, Polychaetaspidae, Atraktoprionidae, Hadoprionidae, and Kalloprionidae. Ten species are identified and one new paulinitid species, Ketmerites (Aeolus) sylvanensis, dominates. The low-abundance and relatively low-diversity Sylvan Shale fauna differs from approximately coeval ones of both Laurentia and Baltica, particularly by its high relative frequency of paulinitids. The scolecodonts are associated with chitinozoans, as well as some enmnatic organic-walled microfossils. Conodonts are extremely rare. with Plectodina tenuis, Amorphognathus sp., and Dapsilodus sp. identified.
Avdelning/ar
- Berggrundsgeologi
Publiceringsår
2005
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
486-496
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Paleontology
Volym
79
Issue
3
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Paleontological Society
Ämne
- Geology
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0022-3360