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Early Permian corals from Arrow Canyon, Clark County, Nevada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Edward C. Wilson  and
Ralph L. Langenheim Jr.
Edward C. Wilson
Affiliation:
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California 90007
Ralph L. Langenheim Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801
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Abstract

Rugose and tabulate corals from the Lower Permian (Wolfcampian) part of the Bird Spring Group in Arrow Canyon, Arrow Canyon Range, Clark County, Nevada, comprise eight species in eight genera. Stylastraea rowetti n. sp. is the first unequivocal record of this genus west of Texas in North America. Heritschiella girtyi, the only endemic North American waagenophyllid genus and species, is recorded outside Kansas for the first time. Paraheritschioides stevensi formerly was known only from northern California. The other species also occur elsewhere in the Permian of Nevada and nearby. This southeast Nevada shelf area has the first known intermixture of corals from the Durhaminid Coral Province and subprovinces of far western North America and the Cyathaxonid Coral Province of middle and southwestern North America.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 67 , Issue 6 , November 1993 , pp. 935 - 945
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