VIRGIANID BRACHIOPODS OF THE MICHIGAN BASIN, AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR POST-EXTINCTION DIVERSIFICATION OF THE SILURIAN PENTAMERIDE FAUNA IN LAURENTIA

VIRGIANID BRACHIOPODS OF THE MICHIGAN BASIN, AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR POST-EXTINCTION DIVERSIFICATION OF THE SILURIAN PENTAMERIDE FAUNA IN LAURENTIA

Three virgianid genera are present in the Michigan Basin. The oldest, Virgiana mayvillensis Savage from the Mayville Dolomite, is upper Rhuddanian in age and coeval with the same species on Anticosti Island in eastern Canada. “Virgiana” major Savage, 1916, from the uppermost Lime Island (uppermost R...

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Main Authors: JISUO JIN, DONALD MIKULIC, JOANNE KLUESSENDORF
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2019-09-01
Series:Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia
Subjects:
Brachiopoda
Virgiana
Virgianoides gen. n.
earliest Silurian
Michigan Basin.
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/12168

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