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Silicified Carboniferous (Chesterian) Brachiopoda of the Arco Hills Formation, Idaho

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Susan H. Butts
Susan H. Butts*
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow 83843
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Current address: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, PO Box 208118, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8118, <susan.butts@yale.edu>
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Abstract

The Arco Hills Formation contains abundant lingulate, strophomenate, and rhynchonellate brachiopods, echinoderms, corals, bryozoans, and rare vertebrate and trilobite fossil fragments. Fossils are equally abundant in carbonate and siliciclastic units; however, silicified brachiopods are limited to carbonate lithologies which occasionally have minor amounts of siliciclastic sediment. These silicified brachiopods were extracted for taxonomic, taphonomic, and paleoecologic description. Chesterian brachiopod assemblages of the Cordilleran region are poorly described and this work represents the only systematic treatment of Chesterian macrofossil assemblages in Idaho. Fifteen genera (23 species) of brachiopods are presented from Arco Hills Formation, including two new species: Anthracospirifer arcoensis and Composita idahoensis, described herein.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 81 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 48 - 63
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