Upper Furongian (Cambrian) conodonts from the Degerhamn quarry road section, southern Öland, Sweden

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The Alum Shale Formation exposed at the Degerhamn quarry road section, southern Oland, Sweden, contains a diversified assemblage of euconodonts, paraconodonts and protoconodonts, the majority of which have ranges confined to the Furongian Series (Cambrian). The first occurrence (FO) of the cosmopolitan euconodont species Proconodontus muelleri is recorded in the uppermost part of the Ctenopyge spectabilis trilobite Zone and the first appearance datum of Cordylodus? andresi is in the upper part of the Parabolina lobata trilobite Zone. Three new successive paraconodont associations are introduced: (1) the Furnishina Association, (2) the Prooneotodus Association and (3) the Westergaardodina Association, which, respectively, correspond to deeper marine, deep marine and shallow marine conditions. The genus Stenodontus Chen & Gong is revised in multielement taxonomy. New species formally named are Furnishina holmi and Westergaardodina asinina; Furnishina sp. A and Furnishina sp. B are described in open nomenclature.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftGFF
Vol/bind136
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)436-458
Antal sider23
ISSN1103-5897
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2014

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Acknowledgements – We thank Arne T. Nielsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Fredrik Terfelt (University of Lund, Sweden) for the identification of the collected trilobites and sharing their experience on Cambrian stratigraphy with us. The access to the collections at the Humbolt Institute, Berlin, and the Coelerodontus type specimens at the University of Iowa, USA, is greatefully acknowledged. The financial support provided by the Synthesys programme to G. Bagnoli is gratefully appreciated, and S. Stouge thanks the Danish Research Council for funding the research. Drs V. Viira and T. Tolmacheva are gratefully acknowledged for their constructive and helpful comments that improved the manuscript.

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