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A new Permian waagenophyllid coral from the Klamath Mountains, California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Calvin H. Stevens ,
M. Meghan Miller  and
Merlynd Nestell
Calvin H. Stevens
Affiliation:
San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192
M. Meghan Miller
Affiliation:
Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
Merlynd Nestell
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Arlington 76019
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Abstract

Specimens of a new species of the Permian waagenophyllid coral genus Waagenophyllum, W. klamathensis, have been recovered from limestone lenses near the top of the Upper Permian Dekkas Formation in the eastern Klamath Mountains, and similar specimens have been collected from an isolated limestone mass in the eastern Hayfork terrane of the southwestern Klamath Mountains, northern California. Another specimen of Waagenophyllum, which may represent another species, has been recovered from another limestone mass in the Hayfork terrane. These specimens of Waagenophyllum, a genus which otherwise is restricted to the Tethyan Province, provide the only tie between the Permian limestone masses of the eastern Hayfork terrane, which also contain typical Tethyan foraminifers, and the eastern Klamath Mountains terrane (McCloud belt), which contains many fossils with non-Tethyan affinities.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 61 , Issue 4 , July 1987 , pp. 690 - 699
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