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The Middle Devonian (Givetian) ammonoid Pharciceras from the New Albany Shale, Kentucky

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

David M. Work ,
Charles E. Mason  and
Gilbert Klapper
David M. Work
Affiliation:
Maine State Museum, 83 State House Station, Augusta 04333-0083,
Charles E. Mason
Affiliation:
Department of Physical Sciences, Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky 40351,
Gilbert Klapper
Affiliation:
emeritus, Department of Geoscience, The University of Iowa; present address: 1010 Eastwood Road, Glencoe, Illinois 60022-1125,
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Pharciceras Hyatt, 1884 is the diagnostic ammonoid of the late middle Givetian Stage of the Middle Devonian Series. It occurs in the Rhenish Massif in Germany, the Montagne Noire in southern France, and in equivalent strata in the Anti-Atlas in southern Morocco. Verified North American occurrences of Pharciceras are confined to the New York succession, where the appearance of the ancestral species P. amplexum (Hall, 1886) in the Upper Tully Limestone represents an important and well-established biostratigraphic datum within the Taghanic onlap interval (see Aboussalam and Becker, 2001 for discussion). In this note we describe a second, distinctly younger, North American species, Pharciceras barnetti n. sp., from the New Albany Shale in eastcentral Kentucky that provides new evidence on the Taghanic onlap interval (Upper Tully/Geneseo Sequence of Baird and Brett, 2003) in the central Appalachian Basin. This occurrence is particularly significant because of its association with conodonts that provide a basis for refined correlations between the central Appalachian Basin and the Taghanic onlap succession in New York.

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 81 , Issue 6 , November 2007 , pp. 1510 - 1515
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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