New ptychaspidid trilobites from the Upper Cambrian Mistaya Formation of southern Alberta

1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Westrop
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Upper Cambrian ◽  
Southern Alberta

Three new ptychaspidid genera are described from the Upper Cambrian (Sunwaptan Stage) Mistaya Formation of Banff and Jasper national parks, southern Alberta. Proricephalus gen. nov. is represented by two species and is placed in the subfamily Ptychaspidinae. Both Sunwaptia gen. nov. and Wilcoxaspis gen. nov. are monotypic. They are assigned to a new ptychaspidid subfamily, the Macronodinae, which also includes Macronoda Lochman. New species described are Proricephalus wilcoxensis, Sunwaptia carinata, and Wilcoxaspis bulbosa.

Facies anatomy of an Upper Cambrian grand cycle: Bison Creek and Mistaya formations, southern Alberta

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 2292-2304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Westrop
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Carbonate Platform ◽  
Half Cycle ◽  
Upper Cambrian ◽  
Facies Associations ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
Shallow Subtidal ◽  
Carbonate Bank

The Bison Creek and Mistaya formations form the youngest Cambrian sedimentary grand cycle exposed in Banff and Jasper national parks. The shaly half-cycle of the Bison Creek Formation records the displacement of a carbonate bank during a major rise in sea level that can be identified in other parts of North America. Lithofacies of the Bison Creek Formation fall into three recurrent associations that represent sedimentation in shallow, subtidal, storm-dominated shelf settings. The Mistaya Formation records the reestablishment of carbonate bank deposition, probably due to a decrease in the rate of sea-level rise, and includes two facies associations that represent a mosaic of shallow subtidal to supratidal environments. The grand cycle was terminated by a sea-level rise, possibly eustatic in nature, that drowned the carbonate platform. The overlying shales, mudstones, packstones, grainstones, and rudstones of the Survey Peak Formation mark a return to subtidal, storm-dominated shelf conditions.

New Monoplacophora (Mollusca) from Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician of Missouri

1986 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 606-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce L. Stinchcomb
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Upper Cambrian ◽  
Early Ordovician ◽  
New Family ◽  
Late Cambrian ◽  
Lower Ordovician ◽  
A New Species

Fourteen new species and six new genera of the molluscan class Monoplacophora are described from the Upper Cambrian Potosi and Eminence formations and the Lower Ordovician Gasconade Formation of the Ozark Uplift of Missouri and some new biostratigraphic horizons are introduced. A new superfamily, the Hypseloconellacea nom. trans. Knight, 1956, and a new family, the Shelbyoceridae, are named. The genus Proplina is represented by five new species: P. inflatus, P. suttoni from the Cambrian Potosi Formation, P. arcua from the Cambrian Eminence Formation and P. meramecensis and P. sibeliusi from the Lower Ordovician Gasconade Formation. A new genus and species in the subfamily Proplininae, Ozarkplina meramecensis, is described from the Upper Cambrian Eminence Formation. Four new monoplacophoran genera in the superfamily Hypseloconellacea and their species are described, including: Cambrioconus expansus, Orthoconus striatus, Cornuella parva from the Eminence Formation, and Gasconadeoconus ponderosa, G. waynesvillensis, G. expansus from the Gasconade Formation. A new genus in the new family Shelbyoceridae, Archeoconus missourensis, is described from the Eminence Formation and a new species of Shelbyoceras, S. bigpineyensis, is described from the Gasconade Formation.

Five new species of the genus Cheumatopsyche (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) from the Phetchabun Mountains, Thailand

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3613 (5) ◽  
pp. 445-454
Author(s):  
KITIYA THAWARORIT ◽  
NARUMON SANGPRADUB ◽  
JOHN C. MORSE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
High Density ◽  
Wildlife Sanctuary

Five new species of the genus Cheumatopsyche (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) from the Phetchabun Mountains, Thai-land, are described and illustrated. The national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in the Phetchabun Mountains are recognized as areas with a high density of endemic species deserving protection. Four new species of Cheumatopsyche (C. recta, C. diversa, C. triangula, and C. tongto) have been found in Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, Phu Kradueng National Park and Thung Salaeng Luang National Park; a fifth new species (C. cava) has been found in Phu Kradueng National Park. De-scribing hydropsychid species is important not only to study diversity and distribution but also to facilitate eventual de-scriptions of larvae for use in freshwater biomonitoring programs to detect pollution.

Revalidation of the milliped genus Amplaria Chamberlin 1941 (Diplopoda,  Chordeumatida, Striariidae), and description of two new species from caves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1532 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM A. SHEAR ◽  
JEAN K. KREJCA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Phyletic Line

The milliped genus Amplaria Chamberlin 1941 was synonymized with Striaria Bollman 1888 by Hoffman (1980). Examination of a much wider range of materials of nominal Striaria species both from eastern North America and the Pacific coastal states shows that some species occurring from California to Washington (state) represent a distinct phyletic line, for which Amplaria Chamberlin 1941 is the oldest available generic name. Speostriaria Causey 1960 is a synonym of Amplaria. Amplaria muiri n. sp. and A. adamsi n. sp. are two new, recently discovered species from caves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California. Illustrations are provided of a specimen that may represent the type species, Amplaria eutypa (Chamberlin) 1953.

Cambrian and Ordovician linguliform brachiopods from the Shallow Bay Formation (Cow Head Group), western Newfoundland

2001 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean P. Robson ◽  
Brian R. Pratt
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Continental Slope ◽  
Head Group ◽  
Lower Paleozoic ◽  
Middle Cambrian ◽  
Middle Ordovician ◽  
Upper Cambrian ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Brachiopod Fauna ◽  
Shallow Bay

Linguliform brachiopods were recovered from the Upper Cambrian Downes Point Member (lower Sunwaptan) and from the Middle Ordovician Factory Cove Member (Arenig) of the Shallow Bay Formation, Cow Head Group, of western Newfoundland. These rocks are a series of Middle Cambrian to Middle Ordovician conglomerates, lime mudstones, and shales that formed a sediment apron at the base of the lower Paleozoic continental slope of Laurentia. The linguliform brachiopod fauna consists of sixteen species assigned to twelve genera. Three new species are described: Picnotreta lophocracenta, Neotreta humberensis, and Siphonotretella parvaducta.

Trilobites from the upper part of the Deadwood Formation (Upper Franconian and Trempealeauan stages, Upper Cambrian), Black Hills, South Dakota

1997 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Stitt ◽  
Wendy Metcalf Straatmann
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South Dakota ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Great Basin ◽  
Black Hills ◽  
Upper Cambrian ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Study Interval ◽  
Central Texas

Trilobites assigned to 29 genera and 39 species are reported from the Deadwood Formation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Two new species, Prosaukia lochmani and Arcifimbria pahasapaensis, are described. Brachiopods are reported from the Taenicephalus Zone.A biostratigraphic zonation is established for the upper part of the Deadwood Formation. The Taenicephalus Zone in the lower part of the study interval is succeeded upsection by the Ellipsocephaloides Zone, both of which are assigned to the Franconian Stage. These two zones are overlain in turn by the Illaenurus and Saukia Zones of the Trempealeauan Stage. These zones are used to correlate this part of the Deadwood with coeval strata in Montana and Wyoming, central Texas, Oklahoma, and Alberta, Canada. The lowstand of sea level that occurred in the Great Basin at the time of the deposition of the Saukiella junia Subzone of the Saukia Zone probably extended eastward into the Black Hills, resulting in the absence of this fauna in the Black Hills.

Biogeographic shifts in a transgressive succession: the Cambrian (Furongian, Jiangshanian; Latest Steptoean–earliest Sunwaptan) agnostoid arthropodsKormagnostellaRomanenko andBiciragnostusErgaliev in North America

2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 804-817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Westrop ◽  
Jonathan M. Adrain
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Local Extinction ◽  
Faunal Turnover ◽  
Upper Cambrian ◽  
Extinction Event ◽  
Stratigraphic Interval

The first records of the upper Cambrian agnostoid generaKormagnostella, E. Romanenko,inRomanenko and Romanenko, 1967, andBiciragnostusF. Ergaliev,inEraliev and Ergaliev, 2001, in Laurentian North America are from a narrow stratigraphic interval in the Steptoean–Sunwaptan boundary interval (Furongian, Jiangshanian) of Nevada and Utah. In Nevada, both genera occur in a condensed bioclastic lag below a major flooding surface, andKormagnostellaalso appears in a transgressive interval in Utah. Immigration of these genera is associated with sea level rise, and also with faunal turnover.Biciragnostusis confined to the latestElviniaZone, immediately below the onset of a trilobite and agnostoid extinction event at the base of theIrvingella majorZone (basal Sunwaptan).Kormagnostellais present in the latestElviniaZone, and has its highest occurrence in theI. majorZone. Stratigraphic data from the Karatau-Naryn Terrane, Kazakhstan indicate that both genera disappear near the local extinction ofIrvingella, suggesting that faunal turnover in that region may have been broadly correlative with the more profound extinction in Laurentia. New species areKormagnostella advena,K. insolitaandBiciragnostus viator.

THE APPLICATION OF A NEW NOMENCLATURAL APPROACH TO UPPER CRETACEOUS PLANT MICROFOSSILS FROM WESTERN CANADA

1957 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn E. Rouse
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Vancouver Island ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
New Genera ◽  
Southern Alberta ◽  
Plant Microfossils ◽  
New System

A new system of nomenclature is proposed with the purpose of presenting a scheme which will be applicable to spores, pollens, and other microfossils from all geological ages. A review of previous nomenclatural systems is presented to indicate the historical development of microfossil nomenclature. The applicability of the new system is illustrated by naming 21 new species and four new genera of Upper Cretaceous microfossils from the Comox formation of Vancouver Island and the Oldman formation of southern Alberta. The microfossil conspecti are briefly compared with the assemblage previously reported from the Brazeau formation of western Alberta. Advantages of the new nomenclatural scheme are discussed in the light of future discoveries of plant microfossils, and their application to palaeobotanical and geological problems.

Heterodermia pindurae (Physciaceae)—a new foliose lichen from Rwanda

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 311 (3) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
EBERHARD FISCHER ◽  
DOROTHEE KILLMANN ◽  
DAMIEN ERTZ ◽  
EMMANUËL SÉRUSIAUX
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Foliose Lichen

The new species Heterodermia pindurae, found in the Nyungwe and Volcanoes National Parks in Rwanda, is described and illustrated. It differs from the morphologically similar H. subcomosa and H. pellucida in the minute, only 0.3–0.6 cm long thallus, blackish cilia, lack of laciniae, the pedicellate, cup-like apothecia with sorediate margins and production of norstictic acid.

scholarly journals Xylariales: First results of mycological exploration in the Sangay and Llanganates National Park, Ecuador

F1000Research ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
María-Fernanda Guevara ◽  
Paula Salazar ◽  
Bence Mátyás ◽  
María-Eugenia Ordoñez
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Taxonomic Identification ◽  
Bioinformatic Tools ◽  
First Results ◽  
Identification Of Fungi ◽  
A New Species

In the present study fungi collections were sampled in the Sangay (SP) and Llanganates (LP) National Parks, from which sequences of the regions of the internal transcribable spacer (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) of the ribosomal DNA were obtained (RDNA). The taxonomic identification of fungi of the order Xylariales was achieved with the bioinformatic tools, to further study the phylogenetic relationships among the collected individuals and thus contribute with base information on their biological diversity, necessary to design and implement measures for the conservation of fungi. All records belong to the genus Xylaria, of these eight belong to PL and two to SP. A record was not identified at the species level, suggesting that it could be a new species. A phylogenetic tree of Maximum Likelihood was built.

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