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A new ichnogenus Catenarichnus from the Devonian of the Ohio Range, Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2003

MARGARET A. BRADSHAW
MARGARET A. BRADSHAW
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Abstract

The Horlick Formation is a fossiliferous, predominantly marine succession of interbedded sandstone and mudstone that crops out along a prominent escarpment in the Ohio Range. The formation buries a relatively level wave-cut platform eroded across a basement granitoid, and is nowhere more than 56 m thick due to subsequent Permo–Carboniferous glacial erosion.

The sediments have been described in terms of nine lithofacies (Bradshaw & McCartan 1983, McCartan & Bradshaw 1987), that were renamed in conjunction with the establishment of six ichnocoenoses (Bradshaw et al. 2002). An abundant but relatively limited shelly fauna was described by Doumani et al. 1965 and Bradshaw & McCartan 1991.

The six ichnocoenoses within the Horlick Formation have been used in palaeoenvironmental interpretations (Bradshaw et al. 2002). Catenarichnus is an important element and name bearer for one of these ichnocoenoses. Detailed descriptions of the remaining ichnofauna will be described in a separate paper.

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Short Note
Information
Antarctic Science , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 2002 , pp. 422 - 424
Copyright
© Antarctic Science Ltd 2002

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