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New Ediacaran fossils from the Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Guy M. Narbonne
Guy M. Narbonne*
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Department of Geological Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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Abstract

The terminal Neoproterozoic Sheepbed and Blueflower Formations at Sekwi Brook in northwestern Canada have yielded two additional taxa, both of them new to North America. Hiemalora cf. H. pleiomorphus Vodanjuk is a tentaculate disc that most likely represents a semi-infaunal polyp. Windermeria aitkeni n. gen. and sp. is an ovate, bilaterally symmetrical, segmented fossil similar to the dickinsoniids; these fossils characterize Neoproterozoic faunas of Australia and the Russian Platform, but had not previously been reported from Laurentia.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 68 , Issue 3 , May 1994 , pp. 411 - 416
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