Thesis (M.Sc.) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland. / Typescript. Bibliography : leaves 165-180. Also available online.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1981. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-163).

Une étude des faunes de conodontes du Dévonien supérieur (Frasnien) a été réalisée sur deux coupes algériennes de la plate-forme occidentale du Sahara, Marhouma sud (bassin de l'Ougarta) et Ben Zireg (bassin de Béchar). Dans la coupe de Marhouma le Frasnien apparaît complet, tandis qu'une lacune du Frasnien inférieur est enregistrée à Ben Zireg. La limite entre les étages Frasnien et Famennien a été précisément localisée.Les corrélations entre ces coupes montrent une forte condensation des dépôts au Frasnien moyen à Ben Zireg, alors qu'au même moment d'épaisses séries argilo-carbonatées s'accumulent dans l'Ougarta. Au cours du Frasnien supérieur un changement de la structuration des bassins est constaté avec l'homogénéisation du taux d'accumulation dans les deux secteurs.Afin de reconstituer les environnements de dépôt du Frasnien, nous avons mené une étude multidisciplinaire basée sur la sédimentologie des faciès, la susceptibilité magnétique, les biofaciès à conodontes et les morphogroupes de foraminifères agglutinés. La combinaison de ces outils révèle qu'au cours du Frasnien, la plate-forme saharienne algérienne était assimilable à un domaine de rampe externe, carbonatée, de faible pente, avec des zones proximales dominées essentiellement par des communautés pélagiques, passant à des zones distales dominées par des faciès boueux et nodulaires à rares faunes. L'essentiel des dépôts était situé sous/ ou en limite de/ l'action des vagues de tempêtes.La coupe de Marhouma représente une coupe de référence pour l'étude des dépôts anoxiques du Frasnien. Certains de ces niveaux ont pu être rapportés à des événements anoxiques globaux tels que le Middlesex et le Rhinestreet, datés du Frasnien moyen, et le Kellwasser supérieur dans le Frasnien supérieur. Pour la coupe de Ben Zireg, seul le facies relatif aux Kellwasser inférieur et supérieur a été identifié.L'évolution temporelle de ces différents paramètres a permis également de proposer une courbe de variations du niveau marin pour la partie nord du Gondwana. À long terme, le Frasnien est caractérisé par une tendance transgressive entrecoupée de tendances régressives mineures. La fin du Frasnien est marquée une régression majeure lors de l'événement Kellwasser, avant la transgression du Famennien inférieur. / A study of the conodont faunas from the Upper Devonian (Frasnian) has been realised in two sections located on the Algerian Sahara platform: south Mahrouma (Ougarta basin) and Ben Zireg (Bechar Basin). At Mahrouma, the Frasnian seems to be complete, but the lower Frasnian is absent in Ben Zireg. The boundary between the Frasnian and the Famennian has been precisely located.The correlations between the two sections show a strong condensation of deposits during the middle Frasnian in Ben Zireg, whereas thick series of argilites and carbonates accumulated in the Ougarta basin. During the Upper Frasnian a change in dynamic basin structure is observed when accumulation rates become homogeneous in the two areas.In order to reconstitute Frasnian depositional environments, a multidisciplinary study based on sedimentology of the facies, magnetic susceptibility, conodont biofacies and morphogroup analysis of agglutinated foraminifera has been undertaken. The combination of these tools indicates that during the Frasnian, the algerian platform took part of a slightly inclined outer carbonated ramp domain. The proximal areas were essentially dominated by pelagic communities, the distal areas being dominated by muddy and nodular facies with rare faunas. The major part of the deposits was located under or at the limit of tempest wave action.The Mahrouma section represents a reference for investigations on Frasnian anoxic deposits. Some of its levels could have been related to global anoxic events such as the Middlesex and the Rhinestreet that are dated Middle Frasnian, as well as the Upper Kellwasser at the top of the Frasnian. In the Ben Zireg section, only the facies related to both the Lower and Upper Kellwasser events were identified.The temporal evolution of these different proxies allows in addition to propose a sea-level curve for the northern part of Gondwana. In the long term, the Frasnian is characterized by a transgressive trend interrupted by intermittent minor regressive trends. The end of the Frasnian is marked by a major regression during the Upper Kellwasser event, just before the Lower Famennian transgression.

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The occurrences of species of Delotaxis and Icriodus and the Ozarkodina remscheidensis eosteinhornensis--Ozarkodina remscheidensis remscheidensis lineage indicate that (1) most of the Keyser Formation of western Virginia is assignable to the uppermost Silurian eosteinhornensis zone; (2) the top of the upper limestone member of the Keyser is assignable to the basal Devonian woschmidti zone; (3) the remainder of the Helderberg Group is no younger than the delta zone; and (4) the basal Needmore Shale at the Price's Bluff section is assignable to the serotinus, patulus, or costatus costatus zones, of uppermost lower Devonian and lowermost Middle Devonian age, leaving a gap of at least six conodont zones represented by the Ridgeley Sandstone and its bounding unconformities. Conodonts tend to avoid tidal flat and lagoonal environments. They are not uniformly distributed through the rest of the section, but the occurrence of all but two species is not related to water depth, energy, or substrate; Ozarkodina excavata and Pseudooneotodus beckmanni prefer moderate energy environments. Icriodus helderbergensis and most of the simple cone species are associated with each other. There were 13,360 specimens collected, divided among 10 biological species and 15 form species; of the biological species, 3 are new and 2 are newly reconstructed apparatuses. / Master of Science

Conodontes são microfósseis potencialmente úteis para bioestratigrafia e em reconstruções paleoecológicas de rochas sedimentares paleozóicas e do Triássico. Desta forma, este estudo apresenta a classificação taxonômica e o estabelecimento das condições biocronoestratigráficas e paleoecológicas nas quais estes organismos viveram, bem como uma revisão do estágio atual do conhecimento a respeito dos conodontes e de seu aparelho alimentar. A seção analisada pertence à Formação Itaituba, Grupo Tapajós, Pensilvaniano da Bacia do Amazonas. A área de estudo localiza-se a Nordeste da cidade de Itaituba, às margens do Rio Tapajós, em um afloramento da Pedreira Calminas. A distribuição dos conodontes reconhecida define duas biozonas: uma Zona de Amplitude Diplognathodus orphanus e uma Zona de Concorrência Idiognathodus incurvus-Idiognathoides sinuatus. As espécies Diplognathodus coloradoensis, Diplognathodus orphanus e Idiognathodus incurvus formam uma associação tipicamente atokana. Baseando-se na associação descrita, a seção analisada foi definida como atokana. A espécie de melhor resolução bioestratigráfica é Diplognathodus orphanus, sendo sua distribuição restrita ao Atokano. O ambiente deposicional dominante na Bacia do Amazonas durante o Pensilvaniano é caracterizado por uma rampa carbonática rasa. Os depósitos estudados refletem uma sequência predominantemente regressiva, com a presença de gêneros de águas mais rasas, tais como Adetognathus, Diplognathodus e Ellisonia. A ocorrência de conodontes associados a braquiópodes, briozoários, crinóides e fragmentos de peixes sugere que estes estratos foram depositados em paleoambiente marinho raso, com energia de sedimentação baixa a moderada, em águas calmas, límpidas e quentes. No regime de flutuações de alta freqüência do nível do mar, os principais ambientes deposicionais eram laguna (submaré) e planície de maré (intermaré superior-supramaré inferior com tapetes microbiais). / Conodonts are useful microfossils for biostratigraphy and paleoecological reconstructions in Paleozoic and Triassic sedimentary rocks. This research aims to their taxonomic classification and to establish the biochronostratigraphic and paleoecological conditions in which these organisms lived. Furthermore, this study reviews the current knowledge about conodonts and their feeding apparatus. The section analyzed belongs to Itaituba Formation, Tapajos Group, Pennsylvanian of the Amazon Basin. The study area is located northeast of Itaituba city, on the banks of the Tapajós River, in an outcrop of Calminas Quarry. The distribution of conodonts recognized defined two biozones: Diplognathodus orphanus Amplitude Zone and Idiognathodus incurvus-Idiognathoides sinuatus Competition Zone. The species Diplognathodus coloradoensis, Diplognathodus orphanus and Idiognathodus incurvus are typically an Atokan association. Based on the association described, the section analyzed was defined as Atokan. The specie with better biostratigraphic resolution is Diplognathodus orphanus, because its distribution is restricted to the Atokan. The depositional environment prevailing in the Amazon Basin during the Pennsylvanian is characterized by a shallow carbonate ramp. The deposits studied reflect a predominantly regressive sequence, with the presence of shallow water genera, such as Adetognathus, Diplognathodus and Ellisonia. The occurrence of conodonts associated with brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids and fish fragments suggests that these strata were deposited in a shallow marine environment, with low to moderate energy, in calm, clear and warm waters. In high frequency sea level fluctuations regime, the main depositional environments were lagoon (subtidal) and tidal flat (upper intertidal-lower supratidal with microbial mats).

The biotic crisis of the Late Devonian Period involved three distinct peaks of extinction intensity and preferentially eliminated reef taxa. By the end of the second peak, the Frasnian-Famennian (F-F) boundary, the dominant constructor guild member of the mid-Paleozoic, the stromatoporoids, had ceased reef construction in most parts of the world. An undescribed stromatoporoid bioherm in the Dugway Range, west-central Utah, is one of the few locations where stromatoporoids continued building reefs into the mid-Famennian. The sections are well-constrained biostratigraphically using both conodonts and stromatoporoids and range from the latest Frasnian to the Early Carboniferous. The reefal faunas are depauperate and dominated by labechiids and stylostromids, as is characteristic of most Famennian bioconstructions. In this region, reefal development was episodic with reefal units interbedded with units lacking reef taxa. The stromatoporoid survivors belong to long-ranging clades, and may represent "extinction-resistant" taxa. Both were fairly minor constituents of Frasnian reef communities.

Thesis (M.S)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1983. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-91).

Thesis (M.Sc.) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland. / Typescript. Bibliography : leaves 137-144. Also available online.