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Eller, Eugene Rudy. (1940). New Silurian Scolecodonts from the Albion beds of the Niagara Gorge, New York. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 28: 9-46, plates I-VII.
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Eller, Eugene Rudy
1940
New Silurian Scolecodonts from the Albion beds of the Niagara Gorge, New York
Annals of the Carnegie Museum
28: 9-46, plates I-VII
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
[From introduction:]
Of the five thousand Scolecodonts, fossil polychaete annelid jaws, examined in this study, more than ninety per cent were found to be broken or badly crushed out of shape. Preliminary sketches were made of about five hundred good or usable forms. All specimens which were broken or which might leave a slight doubt as to their true shape were rejected. The specimens were collected along the tracks of the Lewiston Branch of the New York Central Railroad, just north of the tunnel near the mouth of the Niagara Gorge, about one-half mile south of Lewiston, New York. They came from the thin-bedded, calcareous sandstone layers of the Manitoulin Beds, Albion formation, Medina Group, of Silurian age. The Manitoulin beds are about thirty feet thick and consist of dark greenish shale, thin-bedded argillaceous magnesian limestone, and thin, calcareous sandstone layers. Fossils are scarce in these beds. The Scolecodont horizon is from about twenty to twenty-five feet above the Whirlpool sandstone. The layer containing the jaws was discovered by Mr. Raymond B. Hibbard, of Buffalo, New York, while searching for Bryozoa. When the Scolecodont layer is exposed, it becomes covered with a soft crust of calcareous mud which conceals the specimens from view in ordinary prospecting. To find the fossil jaws it is necessary to wash the mud from the rocks. This, of course, destroys many of the specimens. Scolecodonts were known to occur in the Niagara Gorge and the writer had spent a great deal of time searching for them and is therefore indebted to Mr. Hibbard for disclosing their exact locality. Thanks are also due to Mr. Max Kopf of Lancaster, New York, and to Mr. Hibbard for their assistance in collecting the specimens.
America, North
Paleontology, Fossils, Paleobiology
Systematics, Taxonomy
Arabellites oviformis Eller, 1940 † (original description)
Arabellites plenidens Eller, 1940 † (original description) Arabellites rectidens Eller, 1940 † (original description) Eunicites petasus Eller, 1940 † (original description) Eunicites vertex Eller, 1940 † (original description) Ildraites duplex Eller, 1940 † (original description) Ildraites geminus Eller, 1940 † (original description) Ildraites peramplus Eller, 1940 † (original description) Leodicites Eller, 1940 † (original description) Leodicites variedentatus Eller, 1940 † (original description) Lumbriconereites hibbardi Eller, 1940 † (original description) Nereidavus invisibilis Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites albionensis Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites bidens Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites coalescens Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites exactus Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites flexus Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites fornicatus Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites fossulus Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites franci Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites kopfi Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites levis Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites lewistonensis Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites parvidentatus Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites peracutus Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites permistus Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites staufferi Eller, 1940 † (original description) Oenonites triangulus Eller, 1940 † (original description) |