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Mixed Tethyan and McCloud Belt rugose corals and fusulinids in an Upper Triassic conglomerate, central Oregon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Merlynd K. Nestell  and
Calvin H. Stevens
Merlynd K. Nestell
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA,
Calvin H. Stevens
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192-0102, USA,
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Abstract

Colonial rugose corals ranging in age from Carboniferous to Late Triassic and Early Permian (Cisuralian) fusulinids have been recovered from cobbles in a conglomerate in the Upper Triassic Brisbois Member of the Vester Formation in the Izee terrane in central Oregon. Early Permian (late Sakmarian or early Artinskian) fusulinids typical of those present in the Coyote Butte Limestone in the nearby Grindstone terrane (part of the allochthonous McCloud Belt) include Eoparafusulina, Pseudofusulinella, Chalaroschwagerina, and Schwagerina. The presence of these fusulinid genera and the Pennsylvanian coral Heritschioides?, which is mostly restricted to the McCloud Belt, suggest these particular cobbles were derived from limestone in that belt. The Early Permian fusulinids Changmeia bostwicki new species and Changmeia bigflatensis new species, and the Early Permian corals Yokoyamaella? oregonensis new species and Yokoyamaella? sp. 1, all of which have Tethyan affinities, occur rarely in other cobbles. The presence of definitive fossils from the two different realms in a conglomerate associated with beds containing Late Triassic ammonoids indicates that by Late Triassic time a fragment of a Tethyan terrane was close to or had been amalgamated with a terrane belonging to the McCloud Belt.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 87 , Issue 5 , September 2013 , pp. 909 - 921
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