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New Genera of Carboniferous Tetracorals from Western Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Patrick K. Sutherland
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

Abstract

Four new solitary tetracoral genera and their type species from the Mississippian of Western Canada are described, named, and discussed. These new genera are part of several previously undescribed coral faunas from the northern Canadian Rocky Mountains.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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