A Middle Ordovician cephalopod fauna from Cuzco Province, southern Perú and its palaeobiogeographical significance
✍ Scribed by David H. Evans
- Book ID
- 102223895
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 430 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0072-1050
- DOI
- 10.1002/gj.1063
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A small cephalopod assemblage collected during the 1930s by J. A. Douglas from the Middle Ordovician San José Formation of Cuzco Province is redescribed. Although small in number (four taxa) and poorly preserved, this assemblage contains a representative of the ellesmerocerid family Eothinoceratidae and a probable member of the Arionoceratidae (Orthocerida). One taxon may be closely related to Protocycloceras harringtoni Cecioni from northern Argentina. The presence of a particular group of eothinoceratids, here and elsewhere in South America indicate a link with western Gondwana. The relatively diminutive size of the arionoceratids suggests homeomorphy with those Silurian forms associated with a pelagic habitat and indicates a relatively offshore site for this assemblage. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.