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A bradoriid and brachiopod dominated shelly fauna from the Furongian (Cambrian) of Västergötland, Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Timothy P. Topper ,
Christian B. Skovsted ,
David A. T. Harper  and
Per Ahlberg
Timothy P. Topper
Affiliation:
Geologisk Museum, Statens Naturhistoriske Museum, Øster Voldgade 5–7, DK-1350 K⊘benhavn K, Denmark,
Christian B. Skovsted
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeozoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE-10405 Stockholm, Sweden,
David A. T. Harper
Affiliation:
Geologisk Museum, Statens Naturhistoriske Museum, Øster Voldgade 5–7, DK-1350 K⊘benhavn K, Denmark, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK,
Per Ahlberg
Affiliation:
GeoBiosphere Science Centre, Department of Geology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden,
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Abstract

A small assemblage of shelly fossils, dominated by the brachiopod Treptotreta jucunda and the bradoriid arthropod Mongolitubulus aspermachaera new species is described from a Furongian limestone of Västergötland, south-central Sweden. Mongolitubulus aspermachaera is represented in the assemblage by individual valves and numerous, ornamented spines. Valves and spines share identical ornament and microstructure leaving no doubt that the isolated spines were once attached to the bradoriid valves. Mongolitubulus aspermachaera adds to the increasing list of spinose Cambrian bradoriid arthropods, and Mongolitubulidae new family is erected here to incorporate the genera Mongolitubulus, Tubuterium and Spinospitella. Mongolitubulus aspermachaera represents the youngest member of the new family and supplements the biodiversity of bradoriids in the Furongian, an interval when bradoriid diversity is considered to be very much on the decline. The brachiopod Treptotreta jucunda described predominantly from the ‘middle' to ‘late' Cambrian of Australia is here documented for the first time from outside Gondwana, dramatically extending the biogeographical range of the species. Other elements of the faunal assemblage include typical Baltic Furongian representatives, such as the trilobite Parabolina, the agnostoid Agnostus and the phosphatocopids Hesslandona and Vestrogothia.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 87 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 69 - 83
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