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New rhynchonellid brachiopod genus from Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) cold seep deposits of California and its paleoenvironmental setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Michael R. Sandy  and
Kathleen A. Campbell
Michael R. Sandy
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio 45469-2364
Kathleen A. Campbell
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles 90089-0740
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Abstract

A new brachiopod genus Cooperrhynchia is described for the species originally designated “Rhynchonella” schucherti Stanton, 1895, from the so-called Knoxville beds of northern California. A lectotype is selected for Cooperrhynchia schucherti (Stanton). An isolated carbonate lens within deep-water turbidites of the Great Valley Group (Jurassic–Cretaceous) yielded the brachiopod fossils near the town of Paskenta, western Sacramento Valley. The associated bivalve fauna indicates a mid late Tithonian age for the locality. Mollusks and the rhynchonellids Cooperrhynchia and Peregrinella are known from several scattered limestone lenses within Great Valley strata; collectively, these faunas and carbonate patches represent cold seep-associations that developed in forearc basins along the tectonically active northeast Pacific convergent margin during the late Mesozoic.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 68 , Issue 6 , November 1994 , pp. 1243 - 1252
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