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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Systematics of late Cambrian (Sunwaptian) trilobites from the St. Charles Formation, southeastern Idaho

Hegna, Thomas Arthur 01 January 2006 (has links)
Previously unreported silicified trilobite faunas occur in a narrow stratigraphic interval of the Upper Cambrian (Sunwaptan) St. Charles Formation in the Bear River Range of southeastern Idaho. The faunas occur in four closely spaced rudstones and trilobite packstones indicating deposition in a shallow subtidal setting above storm wave base. At least 23 species are represented, included two undescribed genera and several undescribed species. The faunas are notable for their high trilobite abundance and pervasive silicification. Most coeval faunas have been described on the basis of small numbers of "crack-out" specimens, and the new material reveals many details of anatomy, including knowledge of most exoskeletal sclerites. The four trilobite-yielding beds contain markedly different taxon-abundance profiles, yet most species are shared between them. This suggests multiple, taphonomically-controlled samples of a similar underlying distribution, though true ecological variation cannot be discounted.

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