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Provenance Of The Pythian Cave Conglomerate, Northern California: Implications For Mid-Cretaceous Paleogeography Of The U.S. Cordillera, Kathleen D. Surpless, Gregory Alan Augsburger
Provenance Of The Pythian Cave Conglomerate, Northern California: Implications For Mid-Cretaceous Paleogeography Of The U.S. Cordillera, Kathleen D. Surpless, Gregory Alan Augsburger
Kathleen D. Surpless
Provenance analysis of middle Cretaceous sedimentary rocks can help distinguish between disparate tectonic models of Cretaceous Cordilleran paleogeography by establishing links between sediment and source, as well as between currently separated basins. This study combines new detrital zircon age data and compositional data with existing provenance data for the Pythian Cave conglomerate, an informally-named unit deposited unconformably on the eastern Klamath Mountains, to test possible correlations between the Pythian Cave conglomerate and similar-age deposits in the Hornbrook Formation and the Great Valley Group. These provenance results indicate that restoring Late Cretaceous clockwise rotation of the Blue Mountains adds a significant …
Remarkable Preservation Of A New Genus And Species Of Limuline Horseshoe Crab From The Cretaceous Of Texas, U.S.A., Rodney Feldman, Carrie Schweitzer, Benjamin Dattilo, James Farlow
Remarkable Preservation Of A New Genus And Species Of Limuline Horseshoe Crab From The Cretaceous Of Texas, U.S.A., Rodney Feldman, Carrie Schweitzer, Benjamin Dattilo, James Farlow
Benjamin F. Dattilo
A single specimen, part and counterpart of a carapace, of a horseshoe crab from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Glen Rose Formation in north-central Texas, forms the basis for the definition of a new genus and species, Crenatolimulus paluxyensis. The discovery represents only the fifth limuline known from the Cretaceous. Its preservational style is remarkable in that the carapace exterior is faithfully replicated by a massive overgrowth of serpulid worms.