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Cambrian Radiolaria from Utah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2016

Russell D. White
Russell D. White*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045
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Abstract

Radiolaria have been recovered in acid residues from late Middle Cambrian strata in western Utah. Although the first Cambrian radiolaria were described by Nazarov (1973) from the Batenevskij Mountains of eastern Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union, radiolaria have not been reported from the Cambrian of North America. Except for the Kazakhstan specimens, the oldest known radiolaria are from the Lower Ordovician of western Spitsbergen (Fortey and Holdsworth, 1971). In North America only two accounts of Ordovician assemblages have been reported from southwestern Newfoundland and eastern Nevada (Bergström, 1974; Dunham and Murphy, 1976).

Type
Paleontological Notes
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 60 , Issue 3 , May 1986 , pp. 778 - 780
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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