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A new species of Droharhynchia (Brachiopoda) from the lower Middle Devonian (Eifelian) of west-central Alaska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Mary E. Baxter  and
Robert B. Blodgett
Mary E. Baxter
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403
Robert B. Blodgett
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, 970 National Center, Reston, Virginia 22092
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Abstract

A new species of the genus Droharhynchia Sartenaer is established from lower Eifelian strata of west-central Alaska and the northwestern Brooks Range of Alaska. Droharhynchia rzhonsnitskayae n. sp. occurs in the Cheeneetnuk Limestone of the McGrath A-5 quadrangle, west-central Alaska, and the Baird Group of the Howard Pass B-5 quadrangle, northwestern Alaska. These occurrences extend the lower biostratigraphic range of both the genus and the subfamily Hadrorhynchiinae into the Eifelian. They also suggest close geographic proximity of the Farewell terrane of southwestern and west-central Alaska and the Arctic Alaska superterrane of northern Alaska during Devonian time.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 68 , Issue 6 , November 1994 , pp. 1235 - 1240
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