Middle Devonian brachiopods from the Bird Fiord Formation of Bathurst Island, Arctic Canada

Seven brachiopod species are described from the Middle Devonian Bird Fiord Formation of central Bathurst Island. Costacranaena is a new genus. Schizophoria sulcata, Cupularostrum repetitor, and Costacranena marlenae are new species.The described Bird Fiord fauna occupied a shallow turbid biotope and...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
Main Authors: Johnson, J. G., Perry, D. G.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1976
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Arctic
Canada
Bathurst Island
Bird Fiord
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e76-067
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e76-067
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Summary:Seven brachiopod species are described from the Middle Devonian Bird Fiord Formation of central Bathurst Island. Costacranaena is a new genus. Schizophoria sulcata, Cupularostrum repetitor, and Costacranena marlenae are new species.The described Bird Fiord fauna occupied a shallow turbid biotope and belongs to an as yet undescribed community. It correlates to the fauna from the mid- or upper Hume Formation of western Canada and is of probable late Eifelian age.

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