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Middle to Upper Cambrian linguliformean brachiopods from the Deadwood Formation of subsurface Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Sean P. Robson ,
Godfrey S. Nowlan  and
Brian R. Pratt
Sean P. Robson
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada, ,
Godfrey S. Nowlan
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Canada, 3303-33rd St. NW, Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A7, Canada,
Brian R. Pratt
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada, ,
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Abstract

Limestone beds intercalated within a succession of sandstones, siltstones, and shales of the subsurface Deadwood Formation, cored in two wells in Alberta and Saskatchewan, yielded twelve species assigned to eight genera of organophosphatic brachiopods (Subphylum Linguliformea). The nine species recovered from the Alberta well are Marjuman (late Middle to early Late Cambrian) in age. Three of these species, Neotreta davidi Popov, Berg-Madsen, and Holmer, 1994; Picnotreta debilis Henderson and MacKinnon, 1981; and Stilpnotreta magna Henderson and MacKinnon, 1981, are associated with the Mindyallan (early Late Cambrian) of Queensland, and are previously unknown from Laurentia. This brachiopod fauna occurs with a diverse fauna of paraconodont species. The Saskatchewan well yielded three species of Linnarssonella, belonging to the upper Steptoean to the lower Sunwaptan (middle Late Cambrian). One new subfamily, Neotretinae, is erected, and two new species, Rhondellina albertensis, and Linnarssonella tubicula are described. Linnarssonella elongata Bell, 1941, is reinstated as a valid species. This fauna occurs with a diverse fauna of paraconodont species and is overlain, 226 feet higher, by conodonts of the Early Sunwaptan Proconodontus Zone.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 77 , Issue 2 , March 2003 , pp. 201 - 211
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