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A new species of Coenothyris (Brachiopoda) from the Triassic (Upper Anisian-Ladinian) of Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Howard R. Feldman
Howard R. Feldman*
Affiliation:
Biology Department, Touro College, 160 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016-7304
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∗Correspondence to Division of Paleontology (Invertebrates) American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street at Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5192
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Abstract

Coenothyris oweni new species is described from the Lower Member (Upper Anisian-Ladinian) of the Triassic Saharonim Formation (Upper Anisian–Lower Carnian) at Har Gevanim, Makhtesh Ramon, southern Israel. The Saharonim Formation was deposited under normal, calm, shallow marine conditions as part of the ingression of the Saharonim Sea. The presence of Coenothyris along with characteristic conodonts, ostracodes, foraminiferans, bivalves, cephalopods, gastropods, echinoderms and vertebrate remains is 1) indicative of the Sephardic Province; 2) diagnostic of the Middle Triassic series of Israel; and 3) important in differentiating the Sephardic Province from the Germanic Muschelkalk and Tethyan Realm faunas to the north and correlating the Triassic rocks in the Negev.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 76 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 34 - 42
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