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Ordovician chitinozoan zonation of Quebec and western Newfoundland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2016

Aicha Achab
Aicha Achab*
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Institut national de la Recherche scientifique, INRS-Géoressources, C.P. 7500, Sainte-Foy, Quebec G1V 4C7, Canada
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to propose a chitinozoan zonation of the Ordovician of Quebec and western Newfoundland. On the basis of chitinozoan assemblages previously described from various sections, covering almost the entire Ordovician System, 22 biozones, based on first appearance of index species, are distinguished. As the strata from which the chitinozoan microfaunas were extracted are well dated by other fossils, especially graptolites, it is possible to establish a correlation between the chitinozoan and the established graptolite and conodont zonations of North America and Great Britain.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 14 - 24
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