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Scenella and “a chondrophorine (medusoid hydrozoan) from the basal Cambrian (Placentian) of Newfoundland”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Ed Landing
Affiliation:
New York State Geological Survey, The State Education Department, Albany 12230
Guy M. Narbonne
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6

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In a recent article, Narbonne et al. (1991) documented that the stratigraphic range of the chondrophorine Kullingia delicata continues above the the uppermost Precambrian (Vendian) into the lowermost Cambrian (Placentian Series) of the Avalonian faunal province. The revised text published in the Journal of Paleontology includes several references to Scenella Billings, 1872, as a Cambrian chondrophorine. This classification is in error and unfortunately serves to reinforce several recent reports that conclude that Scenella is a chondrophorine rather than a helcionacean mollusk.

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