The late Middle Devonian fauna of Red Hill I, Nevada, and its paleobiogeographic implications

Schultze, Hans‐Peter

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“…10), was identified by Rigby and Mehl (1994) in the Middle Devonian dolomitic lime mudstone in Red Hills (RH), Nevada. According to Schultze (2010), the RH comprises unusual Middle Devonian fauna with fishes, sponges, conulariids, bivalves, ammonoids, brachiopods, and echinoderms. This fauna lived in shallow, open marine water with a high terrestrial contribution located approximately 28°S latitude under arid climatic conditions (Scotese, 2001).…”

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“…As with fishes and conulariids, the sponges were substituted by hematite. Schultze (2010) suggested the presence of dysaerobic conditions, perhaps Journal of Paleontology 93(5):827-838 hypersaline conditions, and rapid burial during the preservation process at RH. He also believed that the sponges preserved there were endemic at the species and/or genus level.…”

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Pennsylvanian sponge from the Mecca Quarry Shale, Carbondale Group (Indiana, USA) and the paleobiogeographic distribution ofTeganiellain the paleoequatorial region of Laurentia

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The sponges may be the oldest group of Metazoa, with a long and successful evolutionary history. Despite their intermittent fossil record quality, the group has been considered reliable for paleoecological and paleobiogeographic analyses because they have inhabited various types of aquatic environments, forming a significant part of benthic communities. We have presented a detailed description of a new species from the genus Teganiella, Teganiella finksi new species, which expands the chronologic range and classifies the genus as endemic to the paleoequatorial regions of Laurentia associated with arid climate conditions linked to hypersaline periods. Combining the paleoecological and paleoenvironmental features of the Teganiella species, our findings also suggest a trend toward more closed-inlet conditions, which may be related to competition and/or specific habitat supplies, for example, heavy metals such as vanadium, zinc, and molybdenum.UUID: http://zoobank.org/12901a63-7cd5-4207-ac7a-0ce12649fcaf

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Pennsylvanian sponge from the Mecca Quarry Shale, Carbondale Group (Indiana, USA) and the paleobiogeographic distribution ofTeganiellain the paleoequatorial region of Laurentia

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“…Cnidarians such as conulariids, a clade known elsewhere only from marine strata [18] , are preserved in levels 21-5 ( Figure 1 ). Moreover, the widespread deposition of limestone and shale along the western margin of Laurentia suggests that the regional geology of the northern Simpson Park Range represents an open marine paleoenvironment [19] , and in particular the outer continental shelf [16] , [20] . Trace fossils preserved between levels one and two suggest a short-term nearshore paleoenvironment [20] .…”

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A Marine Stem-Tetrapod from the Devonian of Western North America

Swartz

2012

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The origin of terrestrial vertebrates represents one of the major evolutionary and ecological transformations in the history of life, and the established timing and environment of this transition has recently come under scrutiny. The discovery and description of a well-preserved fossil sarcopterygian (fleshy-limbed vertebrate) from the Middle Devonian of Nevada helps to refine and question aspects of the temporal and anatomical framework that underpins the tetrapod condition. This new taxon, Tinirau clackae, demonstrates that substantial parallelism pervaded the early history of stem-tetrapods, raises additional questions about when digited sarcopterygians first evolved, and further documents that incipient stages of the terrestrial appendicular condition began when sarcopterygians still retained their median fins and occupied aquatic habitats.

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“…Cheirolepis schultzei is the third oldest Cheirolepis species known from articulated remains and is present in the uppermost Givetian of Nevada, USA (Schultze, 2010). Cheirolepis canadensis is the youngest Cheirolepis species and is present in the early Frasnian of Canada (Arratia & Cloutier, 1996).…”

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A new actinopterygian Cheirolepis jonesi nov. sp. from the Givetian of Spitsbergen, Svalbard

Newman¹,

Burrow²,

Blaauwen³

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The late Middle Devonian fauna of Red Hill I, Nevada, and its paleobiogeographic implications

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Pennsylvanian sponge from the Mecca Quarry Shale, Carbondale Group (Indiana, USA) and the paleobiogeographic distribution ofTeganiellain the paleoequatorial region of Laurentia

Pennsylvanian sponge from the Mecca Quarry Shale, Carbondale Group (Indiana, USA) and the paleobiogeographic distribution ofTeganiellain the paleoequatorial region of Laurentia

A Marine Stem-Tetrapod from the Devonian of Western North America

A new actinopterygian Cheirolepis jonesi nov. sp. from the Givetian of Spitsbergen, Svalbard

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