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New Early Devonian pteraspidids (Agnatha, Heterostraci) from east-central Nevada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Robert R. Ilyes  and
David K. Elliott
Robert R. Ilyes
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff 86011
David K. Elliott
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff 86011
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Abstract

Three new species and genera of pteraspidids (Agnatha, Heterostraci), Tuberculaspis elyensis, Pirumaspis lancasteri, and Lamiaspis longiripa, are described from the Sevy Dolomite, east-central Nevada. They form part of a vertebrate fauna of typical Early Devonian aspect that indicates a correlation with previously described faunas from the Beartooth Butte and Water Canyon Formations of Utah and Wyoming, thus improving the known distribution and diversity of these faunas. Correlation with an accurately dated fauna in Death Valley, California, enables this fauna to be dated to the late Emsian (inversus–serotinus Zones).

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 68 , Issue 4 , July 1994 , pp. 878 - 892
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