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Trilobites from the upper part of the Deadwood Formation (Upper Franconian and Trempealeauan stages, Upper Cambrian), Black Hills, South Dakota

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

James H. Stitt  and
Wendy Metcalf Straatmann
James H. Stitt
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia 65211
Wendy Metcalf Straatmann
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia 65211
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Abstract

Trilobites assigned to 29 genera and 39 species are reported from the Deadwood Formation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Two new species, Prosaukia lochmani and Arcifimbria pahasapaensis, are described. Brachiopods are reported from the Taenicephalus Zone.

A biostratigraphic zonation is established for the upper part of the Deadwood Formation. The Taenicephalus Zone in the lower part of the study interval is succeeded upsection by the Ellipsocephaloides Zone, both of which are assigned to the Franconian Stage. These two zones are overlain in turn by the Illaenurus and Saukia Zones of the Trempealeauan Stage. These zones are used to correlate this part of the Deadwood with coeval strata in Montana and Wyoming, central Texas, Oklahoma, and Alberta, Canada. The lowstand of sea level that occurred in the Great Basin at the time of the deposition of the Saukiella junia Subzone of the Saukia Zone probably extended eastward into the Black Hills, resulting in the absence of this fauna in the Black Hills.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 71 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 86 - 102
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