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Freshwater ostracodes from upper Middle Devonian fluvial facies, Catskill Mountains, New York

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Gerald M. Friedman  and
Robert F. Lundin
Gerald M. Friedman
Affiliation:
1Northeastern Science Foundation, Inc. affiliated with Brooklyn College, Rensselaer Center of Applied Geology, 15 Third Street, P.O. Box 746, Troy, New York 12181-0746 and Department of Geology, Brooklyn College and Graduate School of the City University of New York, Brooklyn 11210
Robert F. Lundin
Affiliation:
2Department of Geology, P.O. Box 871404, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-1404
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Abstract

Leperditiocope ostracodes identified as Sollenella? sp. were discovered in the Gilboa Formation (upper Givetian, uppermost Middle Devonian) within the continental Catskill Magnafacies of New York State. The deposits in which the ostracodes were found are meandering-fluvial facies that were part of a vast alluvial plain that sloped westward from the eroding Acadian Mountains. Hence, ostracodes colonized freshwater habitats earlier than heretofore thought. It has been widely accepted that, until now, the oldest known unequivocal occurrences of freshwater ostracodes are of Late Carboniferous age. This new discovery means that the first colonization of freshwater habitats by Ostracoda occurred approximately 60 million years earlier than previously known.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 72 , Issue 3 , May 1998 , pp. 485 - 490
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