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A unique occurrence of Endophyllum (rugose coral; Devonian) in eastern North America: An ecological and biogeographical puzzle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

William A. Oliver Jr. ,
James E. Sorauf  and
Carlton E. Brett
William A. Oliver Jr.
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, E-305 Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, Department of Geological Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 13902-6000
James E. Sorauf
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, E-305 Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, Department of Geological Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 13902-6000
Carlton E. Brett
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, E-305 Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, Department of Geological Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York 13902-6000
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Abstract

Endophyllum is described for the first time from North America. The occurrence of a single, large colony in Middle Devonian strata in New York is both biogeographically and environmentally anomalous: it belongs to an Old World Realm genus but was found in the Eastern Americas Realm, and it occurred in a gray, ambocoeliid-bearing mudstone, a facies in which morphologically complex corals are otherwise unknown. Available evidence suggests that the coral lived not far from where it was found, possibly on a hardground or bank a few km north of the outcrop. Endophyllum ciurcai new species is described.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , January 1996 , pp. 46 - 56
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