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Early Devonian vertebrate microfossils from the Simpson Park Range, Eureka County, Nevada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Susan Turner and
Michael A. Murphy
Susan Turner
Affiliation:
Queensland Museum, P.O. Box 300, South Brisbane, Queensland, 4101 Australia
Michael A. Murphy
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside 92521
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Abstract

Vertebrate microfossils are commonly present as minor constituents of acid-etched limestone residues in the Lochkovian (Lower Devonian). This paper describes the fish taxa from the Simpson Park Range section at Coal Canyon, central Nevada. These include thelodont scales of the family Nikoliviidae; heterostracan scales; acanthodian scales, platelets, and spines of Nostolepis type, Gomphonchus type, Acanthodes type, Machaeracanthus type, and climatiid type; placoderm scales of buchanosteid and radotinid types; and the shark, Polymerolepis whitei.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 62 , Issue 6 , November 1988, pp. 959 - 964
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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