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Repository of Trentonia shegiriana Pickerill and Forbes, 1978 (Annelida, Polychaeta)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Ron K. Pickerill*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada

Extract

The holotype of the errant polychaete annelid Trentonia shegiriana Pickerill and Forbes, 1978 from the Middle Ordovician Trenton Group of the Quebec City area, Quebec, Canada (see Pickerill and Forbes, 1978, fig. 1, p. 660), and subsequently figured in Boardman et al. (1987, fig. 12.4, p. 199), has now been reposited in the Division of Natural Sciences, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick, with the catalog number NBMG 6501. Although the Trenton Group in this area has yielded additional annelids of uncertain affinity (Conway Morris et al., 1982), the holotype of T. shegiriana still represents the only known specimen despite a further decade of investigation. At the time of publication, a repository for the specimen was unavailable, but Dr. R. Miller, Curator for Paleontological Collections, has now arranged to receive the specimen.

Type
Paleontological Notes
Copyright
Copyright © The Journal of Paleontology 

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References

Boardman, R. S., Cheetham, A. H., and Rowell, A. J. (eds.). 1987. Fossil Invertebrates. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Palo Alto, Oxford, London, Edinburgh, Boston, Melbourne, 713 p.Google Scholar
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