Cretaceous Terebratulid Events in Western and Southern Europe and their relation to the stage boundaries

Middlemiss, F. A.

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“…whiskyi. Rectithyris shenleyensis has a more regularly convex profile and generally more elongate outline than Cyrtothyris cyrta (Walker) (Upper Valanginian to Aptian, Middlemiss, 1976). The maxi mum width of outline is more anterior and the width of the uniplication of the anterior commissure tends to be greater in R. whiskyi compared to C. cyrta and the Aptian species C. uniplicata (Walker).…”

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“…The hinge plates of the genus Praelongithyris art initially virgate or markedly concave towards the posterior of the brachidium. Towards the anterior, the hinge plates become flatter and the crural bases project ventrally (Middlemiss, 1976). In Cyr tothyris the hinge plates are clubbed and virgate, with the inner lamina the same length as the outer lamina (Cox and Middlem iss, 1978).…”

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“…The distribution of Ptilorhynchia has recently been discussed and the adoption of the two subgenera Ptilorhynchia (Ptilorhynchia) and Ptilorhynchia Proteorhynchiaproposed by Sandy (1990a). 2) Rectithyris is known from the Albian-Cenomanian of Eu rope (Middlemiss, 1984). Smirnova (1972) recorded Rectithyris depressa scharica from the Upper Albian of the Crimea.…”

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“…Plotted occurrences range from Tithonian to Campanian or Maastrichtian. Key to symbols: Ca = Capillithyris (Cox and Middlemiss, 1978;Middlemiss, 1978); Cr = Cretirhynchia (Pettitt, 1950); K = Kingena (Elliott, 1952;Owen, 1970; New Zealand Geological Survey, G. R. Stevens, personal commun. ); L = Lamellaerhynchia (Burri, 1956;Owen and Thurrell, 1968;Thomson and Owen, 1979; Lamellaerhynchia recorded from the United States by Ager et al, 1963 andAger, 1964;Owen, 1981, considered the 1963 record a Cyclothyris)\ Pe = Penzhinothyris (Smirnova and Pergament, 1969;Thomson and Owen, 1979); Pt = Ptilorhynchia (Crickmay, 1933;Dagys, 1968;Owen, 1972;Thomson and Owen, 1979;Sandy, 1990aSandy, , 1990b; R = Rectithyris (Cox and Middlemiss, 1978); Ro = Rossithyris (Owen, 1980a); T = Terebratulina (Middlemiss, 1976;Owen, 1980a).…”

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“…Lamellaerhynchia appears to have a widespread distri bution although records in the Southern Hemisphere are cur rently rare. Capillithyris is known from the Tethys Ocean in Europe during the Barremian and Aptian (Middlemiss, 1978). Its total known stratigraphic range in western Europe is from Lower Barremian to Campanian (Middlemiss, 1984).…”

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Cretaceous brachiopods from James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula, and their paleobiogeographic affinities

Sandy

1991

J. Paleontol.

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Articulate brachiopods from the Aptian–Coniacian (Kotick Point and Whisky Bay Formations, Gustav Group) and the Santonian–Campanian (Santa Marta Formation, Marambio Group) of James Ross Island are described. A new terebratulid species,Rectithyris whiskyin. sp., is described from the late Albian–early Coniacian of the Whisky Bay Formation. The record from the late Albian is supported by palynological evidence making it contemporaneous with other species ofRectithyrisfrom Europe. The relative abundance ofRectithyris whiskyin. sp. in late Turonian to early Coniacian sections indicates an extended biohorizon that may aid biostratigraphic correlation in the James Ross Island region.The brachiopods have some affinities with faunas described from Europe, northern Siberia, North America, Madagascar, southern India, Western Australia, and Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Elements of the James Ross Island brachiopod fauna probably migrated by the following routes: 1) from northern high latitudes via the Eastern Pacific; 2) from Europe via the north and central Atlantic and opening south Atlantic Ocean; and 3) via Eastern Tethys, the East African Seaway, to the south Atlantic Ocean. Brachiopod evidence supports a fully marine connection between the central Atlantic and south Atlantic Ocean (Route 2) possibly as early as the late Albian (as do ammonite faunas from western Africa), and certainly by the late Turonian. Route 3 was established in the Cretaceous by the Aptian?–Albian to eastern Africa and Madagascar and to the Antarctic Peninsula by the late Turonian. Faunal links between James Ross Island and Western Australia support the Late Cretaceous juxtaposition of these plates.A distinct austral brachiopod fauna may be present in the Cretaceous from the Aptian onwards (although current evidence is scant). Antarctic Peninsular and Western Australian faunas yield five brachiopod genera (and their species) endemic to Gondwanaland's southern marine fauna. Other genera known from the Antarctic Peninsula (Kingena, Ptilorhynchia, andRectithyris) and the Northern Hemisphere may have species endemic to Gondwanaland.

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