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The Devonian trilobite Cordania from Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Malte C. Ebach  and
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Malte C. Ebach
Affiliation:
1Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney South, New South Wales 2000 Australia 2Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006,
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Affiliation:
1Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney South, New South Wales 2000 Australia
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Abstract

The genus Cordania Clarke, 1892, has been known from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian-Pragian) of the Appalachian Province and apparently from the Lower-Middle Devonian of China. Probable Lochkovian strata of the Biddabirra Formation in the Amphitheatre Group from near Cobar, New South Wales, Australia, have yielded Cordania buicki new species, extending the range of the genus to eastern Australia. Cladistic analysis of Cordania identifies C. buicki as more closely related to species from Oklahoma than to a northern Appalachian grade.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 73 , Issue 3 , May 1999 , pp. 431 - 436
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