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Phacopid trilobites from the Silurian of Arctic Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Jonathan M. Adrain
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
Eugene W. MacDonald
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada

Extract

Diverse silicified trilobite faunas from the lower Wenlock to lower Ludlow of the Cape Phillips Formation, central Canadian Arctic, have been the subject of works by Perry and Chatterton (1977), Chatterton and Perry (1979), Adrain (1994), and Adrain and Edgecombe (1995, and in press). The present work describes a very minor component of these faunas, the family Phacopidae, which is nevertheless of considerable biogeographic interest.

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Paleontological Notes
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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