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Polychaeta source details
Eller, Eugene Rudy. (1969). Scolecodonts from well cores of the Maquoketa shale, Upper Ordovician, Ellsworth County, Kansas. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 41(1): 1-17.
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Eller, Eugene Rudy
1969
Scolecodonts from well cores of the Maquoketa shale, Upper Ordovician, Ellsworth County, Kansas
Annals of the Carnegie Museum
41(1): 1-17
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World Polychaeta Database (WPolyD)
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[From introduction:]
Dr. William K. Pooser, Research Geologist of the Cities Service Oil Company, has graciously presented to the Carnegie Museum a suite of 18 scolecodonts for study. The specimens, from Ellsworth County, Kansas, were taken from well cores between 3336 and 3413 feet below the surface and are thought to be from the Maquoketa shale, late Ordovician. Scolecodonts from Ordovician rocks in a number of areas have been studied by various workers: Hinde (1879), Stauffer (1933), Eller (1942, 1945, 1946), Kozlowski (1956), and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1961, 1962). No single species described in this paper can be said to be closely related to any other described Ordovician forms. All the specimens are very small, being less than a half-millimeter in size. If the surface outcrops, together with cores from a number of wells of the Maquoketa formation were examined, it is likely that scolecodonts would be found in relative abundance. Detailed studies at numerous localities and stratigraphic horizons could be beneficial to biostratigraphers.
America, North
Paleontology, Fossils, Paleobiology
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Ildraites cyclus Eller, 1969 † (original description)
Ildraites infractus Eller, 1969 † (original description) Ildraites limatus Eller, 1969 † (original description) Ildraites pooseri Eller, 1969 † (original description) Leodicites interstrictus Eller, 1969 † (original description) Lumbriconereites attactus Eller, 1969 † (original description) Lumbriconereites dissimilaris Eller, 1969 † (original description) Lumbriconereites inconditus Eller, 1969 † (original description) Lumbriconereites machinosus Eller, 1969 † (original description) Marphysaites claviger Eller, 1969 † (original description) Marphysaites multiformis Eller, 1969 † (original description) Nereidavus novenus Eller, 1969 † (original description) Paleoenonites discrepans Eller, 1969 † (original description) Paleoenonites infundibulus Eller, 1969 † (original description) Siluropelta crassecaulis Eller, 1969 † (original description) Staurocephalites apicatus Eller, 1969 † (original description) Staurocephalites ellsworthensis Eller, 1969 † (original description) Staurocephalites invisitatus Eller, 1969 † (original description) |