Cambrian Fossils from the Dead Sea

King, William

doi:10.1017/s001675680008849x

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“…However, some features of the new genus are strikingly different from those of above mentioned genera. The detailed review and emendation of Kingaspis by Geyer (1990) and Geyer and Landing (2001) and the restudy of the type material of the type species, Kingaspis campbelli (King, 1923) by Rushton and Powell (1998) has greatly clarified the generic concept of the genus. An exfoliated cranidium has been selected as lectotype for the type species by the latter authors (Rushton and Powell, 1998, fig.…”

Section: Agnostids Of Uncertain Familialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cambrian Trilobites from the Parahio and Zanskar Valleys, Indian Himalaya

et al. 2009

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New collections of trilobites from the type section of the Parahio Formation in the Parahio Valley, Spiti, and from the Parahio, Karsha, and Kurgiakh formations in the Zanskar Valley, permit biozonation based on material precisely located within measured stratigraphic sections. Specimens preserved in limestone with mild tectonic deformation clarify the features of several Himalayan taxa known previously only from severely deformed specimens preserved in shale. A total of 75 trilobite taxa from the Cambrian of Spiti and Zanskar can be referred, questionably at least, at the generic level or below, and 61 of these are present in our new collections. This new material is assigned with confidence to 29 existing species, and to 12 new species. Three new genera,Haydenaspis, Bhargavia, andHimalisania, are established; new species includeHaydenaspis parvatya, Prozacanthoides lahiri, Probowmania bhatti, Xingrenaspis parthiva, X. shyamalae, Bhargavia prakritika, Kaotaia prachina, Gunnia smithi, Sudanamonocarina sinindica, Proasaphiscus simoni, Koldinia odelli, andTorifera jelli. Ten additional Himalayan forms are assigned at the generic level only, and another 11 are questionably assigned to genera or species. The zonation proposed includes 6 zones and 3 levels, including theHaydenaspis parvatyalevel, theOryctocephalus indicuslevel, theKaotaia prachinaZone, theParamecephalus defossusZone, theOryctocephalus salteriZone, theIranoleesia buteslevel, theSudanomocarina sinindicaZone, theLejopyge acanthaZone, and theProagnostus bulbusZone. The sections span from the upper part of the informal Stage 4, Series 2 of the Cambrian System, about 511 Ma old, to theProagnostus bulbuszone of the Guzhangian Stage near the top of Series 3, dated at about 501 Ma. This time interval is represented by about 2000 m of section, which is thick compared to similar intervals elsewhere and is consistent with high rates of sedimentation along the Himalayan margin at the time. The fauna resembles others from equatorial peri-Gondwanaland, with closest similarity to that of South China. It also bears strong affinity to the North China fauna. Juvenile trilobites are described for the first time from India. A new Chinese species,Monanocephalus liquani, is also described.

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Section: Agnostids Of Uncertain Familialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cambrian Trilobites from the Parahio and Zanskar Valleys, Indian Himalaya

et al. 2009

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“…Although Öpik (, p. 9) suggested that M. palmeri was ‘the same or … closely related’ to O. somniurna , the poor preservation of the Mediterranean material led him to select the Australian species as the type species for a new genus. Rushton & Powell () illustrated one librigena and one well‐preserved pygidium from King's () locality, Wadi Rimeileh (= Wadi At Tayan after Rushton & Powell (), in Jordan), and stated that the poorly‐preserved topotypes make it ‘difficult to ascertain the characters of the species’. In contrast, Elicki & Geyer () assigned some disarticulated sclerites preserved in limestones from Wadi Uhaymir (Jordan) to M. palmeri .…”

Section: Systematic Palaeontologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Australia (Öpik ), Israel and Jordan (King ; Parnes ; Rushton & Powell ; Elicki & Geyer ), Spain (Liñán & Gozalo ; Dies Álvarez et al . ), Morocco (Geyer & Landing ) and Poland (Bednarczyk ; Żylińska & Masiak ).…”

Section: Systematic Palaeontologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cambrian trilobites from the Huérmeda Formation (Iberian Chains, north‐east Spain) and the inadequacy of the Marianian Stage

Álvaro

Esteve

Gracia³

et al. 2018

Papers in Palaeontology

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A taxonomic study of the trilobites found in the Marianian parastratotype of the Iberian Chains, north‐east Spain, results in the recognition of the new redlichiid Redlichia isuelaensis sp. nov., the ellipsocephalid Lusatiops ribotanus, and the saukiandids Onaraspis garciae sp. nov., Paulaspis tiergaensis gen. et sp. nov. and Luciaspis matiasi gen. et sp. nov. The diagnosis of the new Subfamily Onaraspininae (Saukiandidae) and its genera takes into account distinct differences in the thorax, which is subdivided into prothorax with spinose and/or macropleural tergites and opistothorax with micropleurid segments. Onaraspis geyeri sp. nov. is erected based on material previously described in Jordan, which was assigned to poorly preserved material of Myopsolenites palmeri from Israel. The temporal correlation of Marianian endemic‐dominant trilobites throughout the Variscan tectonostratigraphic units of the Iberian Peninsula is not supported by acritarchs, archaeocyaths or trilobites. Three diachronous horizons have been proposed to mark the base of the Marianian (based on the first occurrence of two trilobite genera and one archaeocyathan assemblage zone) and two diachronous horizons for the top (based on the first and last occurrence of different trilobite genera). As a result, the Cambrian Epoch‐2 Marianian Stage is ill‐defined and rendered invalid for correlation throughout the Iberian Peninsula.

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“…3-4 Diagnosis: See Hupé, 1953, p. 253. Discussion: Kobayashi 91935, p. 196) erected Kingaspis based on specimens described by King (1923) as Anomocare campbelli from the eastem side of the Dead Sea. Richter and Richter 91941b) subsequendy described campbelli from the same area, but ineluded it in Palaeolenus.…”

Section: Systematic Palaeontologymentioning

confidence: 99%