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Semitubina yukonensis new species, first occurrence of this biogeographically distinctive Old World Realm gastropod genus in the Lower Devonian of the western hemisphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Robert B. Blodgett ,
Jiří Frýda  and
Alfred C. Lenz
Robert B. Blodgett
Affiliation:
Departments of Zoology and Geosciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331,
Jiří Frýda
Affiliation:
Český geologický ústav, Klárov 3/131, 118 21 Praha 1, Czech Republic,
Alfred C. Lenz
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada,
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Despite the rapidly expanding knowledge of Lower Devonian brachiopod faunas of the Western Cordillera of Canada (Lenz, 1976, 1977a, 1977b, 1982; Ludvigsen, 1970; Perry, 1984; Perry and Lenz, 1978; Perry et al., 1974, 1981), equivalent data on coeval gastropod faunas from this region are non-existent; to date, no publications have appeared in which gastropods have been described. Blodgett et al. (1988, table 1) provided faunal lists for two Lower Devonian localities in Western Canada: 1) Lochkovian-Emsian age collections from the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, collected by the late D. G. Perry as part of his Ph.D. dissertation (Perry, 1984); and 2) an early Emsian collection from the Mt. Lloyd George area, British Columbia. We are currently examining the gastropod material recovered by A. C. Lenz from his richly diverse collections in the Royal Creek area, Yukon Territory, equivalent in age to those gathered by D. G. Perry from the Mackenzie Mountains. This note is the first of several papers focused on these paleobiogeographically significant faunas, and it is our desire to ultimately make clear the character of this Early Devonian province, which appears to include strata of British Columbia, Yukon and Northwest Territories, as well as the non-accreted portion of adjacent east-central Alaska.

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , March 2001 , pp. 466 - 470
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 2001

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