Geological Survey Professional Paper Volume 685 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ...1950, Annals and Mag. Nat. History, ser. 12, v. 3, p. 344-345. CaroUnitcs Kobayiishi. Stubblefield, 1950, Annals and Mag. Nat. History, ser. 12, v. 3, p. 45152. In his discussion of ill-fated Dimastocephahts, synonym Carolinites, Stubhlefield (1950a, p. 341-344) noted the great geographic spread of the genus from Tasmania through Utah to northern Ireland. Since then CaroUnites has been reported in the Leningrad district by Balashova (1961, p. 130-131), in northeastern USSR by Chugaeva, Rozman, and Ivanova (1964, p. 11-13), in Newfoundland by Whittington (1965, p. 373), in Spitsbergen by Vallance and Fortey (1968), and in Argentina by Harrington and Leanza (1957, p. 141-142). W. T. Dean (written commun., May 8,1970) stated that CaroUnites occurs in Arenigian strata in Turkey. Stubblefield's (1950a, p. 341-344) discussion of the stratigraphic occurrence of Carolinites killaryensi? revealed that the species was associated in Ireland with Ecterumotus, Nileus, Illaenus, and other genera typical of the Table Head-Lower Head assemblages of Newfoundland and of the Orthidiella zone in Nevada. Furthermore, the occurrence in Ireland was in peculiar lenses of brecciated limestone within a sequence of conglomerates and graptolitic shales. These limestone lenses may be related in origin to somewhat similar limestone bodies north of Elko, Nev., as well as to biohermal masses like that at Meiklejohn Peak. Carolinites ranges from the Pseudocybele zone into the Orthidiella zone in the Utah-Nevada area. Hintze (1952, p. 145) has reported C. killaryensis utahensis in the lowest Anomalorthis zone of western Utah. I have never found the genus in beds I considered younger than those of the Orthidiella zone in Nevada, and I have found C. killaryensis in the area west of the Nevada Test...