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An Ordovician Species of Chaetetes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Kenneth P. Oakley
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).

Extract

THE fossil material collected from the Ordovician limestones of Akpatok Island, N.W.T., by Mr. Ian Cox during the Oxford Hudson Straits Expedition in 1931, included a specimen whose affinities could not be determined from a superficial examination. In asking me to report on the Polyzoa from these rocks, Mr. Cox suggested that I might also investigate this doubtful form, since it resembled in many respects certain massive Polyzoa. Critical examination by means of thin sections has shown, however, that it is not a Polyzoan but a Tabulate Coral referable to the genus Chaetetes.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1936

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