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Paleobiogeographical significance of the Late Silurian microproblematicum Tuxekanella Riding and Soja

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Stanislaw Skompski
Stanislaw Skompski*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Warsaw University, Al. Żwirki i Wigury 93, PL 02—089 Warszawa, Poland
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Abstract

An enigmatic microproblematicum, Tuxekanella Riding and Soja (1993), has been identified in the shallow water carbonate succession of the Late Silurian Skala formation (Podolia, Ukraine). the newly found specimens suggest most probably the algal nature of this enigmatic microfossil. Tuxekanella is known only from two extremely distant regions at the moment: the Alexander terrane in Alaska and Podolia. the possibility of their paleobiogeographical link is discussed in the context of paleotectonic models, assuming the peri-Gondwanan origin of the Alexander Terrane.

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 84 , Issue 2 , March 2010 , pp. 346 - 351
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