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Ptychopleurites spinosa, a new trilobite species from the Upper Cambrian of Texas and South Dakota

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

James H. Stitt  and
Wendy L. Metcalf
James H. Stitt
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia 65211
Wendy L. Metcalf
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia 65211
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During preparation of a manuscript on new collections of Upper Cambrian trilobites from the Threadgill Creek section in central Texas (Longacre, 1970, text-fig. 6), a new trilobite species Ptychopleurites spinosa was discovered that can be used to recognize a revised base to the Saukia Zone (Trempealeauan Stage) in central Texas. This species is represented in central Texas by numerous, well-preserved cranidia and librigenae, but no pygidia have been recovered. Recently Ptychopleurites spinosa was also identified in a collection of trilobites of the partly correlative Illaenurus Zone (= lower part of Saukia Zone) from the type section of the Deadwood Formation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This work is part of a paper that will describe the latest Franconian and Trempealeauan trilobites from the Deadwood Formation, using collections made by Dr. Christina Lochman-Balk. Ptychopleurites spinosa is represented in the Black Hills by incompletely preserved cranidia and well-preserved librigenae. Because it is not known which of these two papers will be published first, it was decided to establish Ptychopleurites spinosa as a new species with one of the better Texas cranidia as the holotype and the Black Hills material as part of the suite of paratypes.

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 69 , Issue 6 , November 1995 , pp. 1183 - 1185
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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