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An Unusual Occurrence of Bashkirian (Pennsylvanian) Rugose Corals From the Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Jerzy Fedorowski ,
E. Wayne Bamber  and
Darya V. Baranova
Jerzy Fedorowski
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Maków Polnych 16, Pl 61-606 Poznań, Poland,
E. Wayne Bamber
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Canada, Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology, 3303-33rd Street NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2L 2A7, Canada,
Darya V. Baranova
Affiliation:
Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada,
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Abstract

The oldest known Carboniferous rugose coral fauna in the Canadian Arctic Islands was collected in the Yelverton Inlet area of northern Ellesmere Island, from Bashkirian carbonates of the lower Nansen and Otto Fiord formations. It includes the genera Dibunophyllum Thomson and Nicholson, Lonsdaleia McCoy, Palaeosmilia Milne-Edwards and Haime and Tizraia? Said and Rodríguez. Such a generic assemblage is unknown elsewhere above the Serpukhovian. An upper? Bashkirian specimen of Paraheritschioides Sando, collected above the main fauna, is the oldest known representative of that genus. Faunal comparisons suggest Novaya Zemlya or northern Timan as the most likely source areas for the Yelverton Inlet fauna.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 86 , Issue 6 , November 2012 , pp. 979 - 995
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