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The hexactinellid sponge Cyathophycus from the Lower-Middle Ordovician Vinini Formation of central Nevada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

J. Keith Rigby
J. Keith Rigby*
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Geology Department, 210 Page School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602-4660
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Abstract

The new species Cyathophycus pseudoreticulatus and a fragment of Cyathophycus reticulatus? Walcott, 1879, are described and reported from the lower part of the Upper Member of the Vinini Formation from black shale of late Whiterockian age. The sponges were collected from the north fork of Vinini Creek, in the north-central part of the Roberts Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 69 , Issue 3 , May 1995 , pp. 409 - 416
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