The Trace Fossil Paleodictyon within The Cruziana Ichnofacies: First Record from The Devonian in Pennsylvania |
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| Authors: | Robert Metz |
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| Institution: | Department of Geology and Meteorology , Kean University , Union , New Jersey , USA |
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| Abstract: | Offshore marine deposits of hemipelagic dark-gray shales comprising the Middle Devonian Mahantango Formation have yielded the first evidence of the trace fossil Paleodictyon from Pennsylvania. Paleodictyon occurs in conjunction with a diversity of largely deposit-feeding trace fossils belonging to the Cruziana ichnofacies, and documents another example of a shallower-water occurrence of this ichnofossil in Paleozoic rocks. |
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| Keywords: | Paleodictyon Mahantango Formation Middle Devonian Pennsylvania |
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