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A new Arenig (Ordovician) graptolite fauna from the Kerman District, east-central Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

R. B. Rickards ,
M. A. Hamedi  and
A. J. Wright
R. B. Rickards
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK
M. A. Hamedi
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong 2522, Australia
A. J. Wright
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong 2522, Australia
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Abstract

A single slab of silicified silty and cross-bedded mudstone from the Katkoyeh Formation, east-central Iran yields Yutagraptus cf. mantuanus Riva which indicates a late Arenig age. The slab also bears Dictyonema ghodsiae sp. nov., regarded as the only unequivocally planktonic dendroid from post-Tremadoc strata. The sicula is surrounded by at least twelve vesicular bodies which constitute a raft of floats. These are the only certain floats yet identified in the Order Dendroidea, and one of very few cases known in the Class Graptolithina.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 131 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 35 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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