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Conodonts of the Windsor Group (Lower Carboniferous), Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Peter H. Von Bitter  and
Hilary A. Plint
Peter H. Von Bitter
Affiliation:
Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology, Royal Ontario Museum, and Department of Geology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada
Hilary A. Plint
Affiliation:
Dome Petroleum Limited, P.O. Box 200, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2H8, Canada
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Abstract

Lower Carboniferous (Viséan-?early Namurian) conodonts, and some of their variably complete reconstructed apparatuses, are described from cyclic marine carbonates, associated with evaporites and mud rocks, of the Windsor Group, Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada. The conodont fauna includes Clydagnathus windsorensis, Cavusgnathus unicornis, Taphrognathus transatlanticus, Hindeodus cristula, Hindeodus? scitulus, Vogelgnathus campbelli, Ozarkodina laevipostica, Mestognathus bipluti, Mestognathus spp., Spathognathodus? n. sp. A, and Apatognathus spp.

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Research Article
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , March 1987 , pp. 346 - 362
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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