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Olenellus

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Description

Olenellus sp. aff. clarki (Resser, 1928)

Fig. 3.2, 3.5

Olenellus clarki Lieberman, 1999, p. 21, figs. 3.2, 3.5; see for complete synonymy.

Material examined. KUMIP 355556 and PWNHC-2013.23.3.

Discussion. Despite being incompletely preserved specimens, it is possible to identify similarities between these two cephala and O. clarki. These include the presence of a plectrum and preglabellar field, narrow cephalic border, anteriorly divergent lateral margins of L2, a prominent furrow on the ocular lobe, and prominently flattened extraocular area. Olenellus clarki is a biostratigraphically long ranging species in the Great Basin (Webster 2011a) and thus it might not be surprising to find it or something very similar in the northwestern part of Laurentia.

Occurrence. Olenellus zone or Waucoban Series, Dyeran stage, sensu Webster (2011a, b) and Webster et al. (2011), early Cambrian, Sekwi Formation, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada, Section 4, 430– 720m above the base of section.

Notes

Published as part of Gapp, I. Wesley & Lieberman, Bruce S., 2014, New olenelloid trilobites from the Northwest Territories, Canada, pp. 479-498 in Zootaxa 3866 (4) on page 485, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/249698

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/DC11878B3B4BFFC3B1AF3984E6342067

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.4.2 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/249698 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/2028FFF33B4DFFC5B1383913E4032219 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/D06E5477-4D5C-4402-B909-09A2AAFFB556 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/DC11878B3B4BFFC3B1AF3984E6342067 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/119588926 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/42479/taxon/DC11878B3B4BFFC3B1AF3984E6342067.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Olenellidae
Genus
Olenellus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Redlichiida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Resser, C. E. (1928) Cambrian fossils from the Mohave Desert. Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, 81 (2), 1 - 14.
  • Lieberman, B. S. (1999) Systematic revision of the Olenelloidea (Trilobita, Cambrian). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 45, 1 - 150. [Yale University]
  • Webster, M. (2011 a) Trilobite biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Dyeran (traditional Laurentian " Lower Cambrian ") in the southern Great Basin, U. S. A. In: Hollingsworth, J. S., Sundberg, F. A. & Foster, J. R. (Eds.), Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Northern Arizona and Southern Nevada. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, 67, 121 - 154.
  • Webster, M. (2011 b) Stops 7 A, 7 B, and 7 C, Upper Dyeran litho- and biostratigraphy of the Split Mountain area, Nevada. In: Hollingsworth, J. S., Sundberg, F. A. & Foster, J. R. (Eds.), Cambrian Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Northern Arizona and Southern Nevada. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, 67, 236 - 246.