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Occurrence of the chimaeroid Ischyodus bifurcatus Case in the Cusseta Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian) of western Georgia and its distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Gerard R. Case  and
David R. Schwimmer
Gerard R. Case
Affiliation:
P.O. Box 689, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey 07660 and Department of Chemistry
David R. Schwimmer
Affiliation:
Geology, Columbus College, Columbus, Georgia 31993
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We described a Late Cretaceous fish fauna from the Campanian-age Blufftown Formation in western Georgia (Case and Schwimmer, 1988), including 15 selachian taxa and 8 osteichthyans; however, at that time no chimaeras had been found in the region. A well-preserved specimen of Ischyodus bifurcatus Case, 1978, was subsequently collected from the same general locality described in the above study, but in the immediately superjacent Cusseta Formation. This is a note of the new occurrence of this fish and a summary of its known geographic and stratigraphic distribution (Appendix).

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Paleontological Notes
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , March 1992 , pp. 347 - 350
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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