The Kinzers Formation (Pennsylvania, USA): the most diverse assemblage of Cambrian Stage 4 radiodonts
Radiodonta, apex Cambrian predators such as Anomalocaris, have been known from the Kinzers Formation for nearly 100 years. Work over the last 10 years mainly on radiodont material from the Chengjiang (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 3 - Yunnan, China) and Burgess Shale (Cambrian Series 3, Sage 5 - British...
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crcenteros:10.31233/osf.io/hsrpn 2024-03-03T08:45:03+00:00 The Kinzers Formation (Pennsylvania, USA): the most diverse assemblage of Cambrian Stage 4 radiodonts Pates, Stephen Daley, Allison C. 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.31233/osf.io/hsrpn unknown Center for Open Science https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode posted-content 2019 crcenteros https://doi.org/10.31233/osf.io/hsrpn 2024-02-07T10:54:06Z Radiodonta, apex Cambrian predators such as Anomalocaris, have been known from the Kinzers Formation for nearly 100 years. Work over the last 10 years mainly on radiodont material from the Chengjiang (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 3 - Yunnan, China) and Burgess Shale (Cambrian Series 3, Sage 5 - British Columbia, Canada), has greatly improved our knowledge of the diversity and disparity of radiodonts and their frontal appendages, including the description of new species, genera, and families. Previous work identified two species of radiodont from the Kinzers Formation: Anomalocaris pennsylvanica Resser 1929 and Anomalocaris? cf. pennsylvanica based on isolated frontal appendage material (Briggs 1979). A restudy of Kinzers Formation material shows that only some of the specimens can be confirmed as Anomalocaris pennsylvanica, and a number of specimens previously attributed to Anomalocaris in fact belong to other more recently discovered radiodont genera Amplectobelua and Tamisiocaris. This reinterpretation makes the Kinzers Formation the most diverse Cambrian Stage 4 Burgess Shale Type Lagerstatten in terms of number of radiodont species. This assemblage includes the youngest known Tamisiocaris and the first from outside Greenland, the only Amplectobelua from Stage 4 and the oldest from Laurentia, two specimens tentatively assigned to the recently described Chengjiang genus Laminacaris, and the endemic Anomalocaris pennsylvanica. The identification of these new radiodont taxa increases the known diversity of the Kinzers Formation to more than 10 species, and so it should now be considered a Tier 2 Lagerstatten. Other/Unknown Material Greenland COS Center for Open Science Canada Greenland British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) Burgess ENVELOPE(76.128,76.128,-69.415,-69.415) Briggs ENVELOPE(-63.017,-63.017,-64.517,-64.517) |
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Radiodonta, apex Cambrian predators such as Anomalocaris, have been known from the Kinzers Formation for nearly 100 years. Work over the last 10 years mainly on radiodont material from the Chengjiang (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 3 - Yunnan, China) and Burgess Shale (Cambrian Series 3, Sage 5 - British Columbia, Canada), has greatly improved our knowledge of the diversity and disparity of radiodonts and their frontal appendages, including the description of new species, genera, and families. Previous work identified two species of radiodont from the Kinzers Formation: Anomalocaris pennsylvanica Resser 1929 and Anomalocaris? cf. pennsylvanica based on isolated frontal appendage material (Briggs 1979). A restudy of Kinzers Formation material shows that only some of the specimens can be confirmed as Anomalocaris pennsylvanica, and a number of specimens previously attributed to Anomalocaris in fact belong to other more recently discovered radiodont genera Amplectobelua and Tamisiocaris. This reinterpretation makes the Kinzers Formation the most diverse Cambrian Stage 4 Burgess Shale Type Lagerstatten in terms of number of radiodont species. This assemblage includes the youngest known Tamisiocaris and the first from outside Greenland, the only Amplectobelua from Stage 4 and the oldest from Laurentia, two specimens tentatively assigned to the recently described Chengjiang genus Laminacaris, and the endemic Anomalocaris pennsylvanica. The identification of these new radiodont taxa increases the known diversity of the Kinzers Formation to more than 10 species, and so it should now be considered a Tier 2 Lagerstatten. |
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Pates, Stephen Daley, Allison C. The Kinzers Formation (Pennsylvania, USA): the most diverse assemblage of Cambrian Stage 4 radiodonts |
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The Kinzers Formation (Pennsylvania, USA): the most diverse assemblage of Cambrian Stage 4 radiodonts |
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The Kinzers Formation (Pennsylvania, USA): the most diverse assemblage of Cambrian Stage 4 radiodonts |
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The Kinzers Formation (Pennsylvania, USA): the most diverse assemblage of Cambrian Stage 4 radiodonts |
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The Kinzers Formation (Pennsylvania, USA): the most diverse assemblage of Cambrian Stage 4 radiodonts |
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The Kinzers Formation (Pennsylvania, USA): the most diverse assemblage of Cambrian Stage 4 radiodonts |
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kinzers formation (pennsylvania, usa): the most diverse assemblage of cambrian stage 4 radiodonts |
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