Tropidocaris salsiusculus, a new rhinocaridid (Crustacea: Phyllocarida) from the Upper Devonian Hampshire Formation of West Virginia
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Paleontology
- Vol. 60 (2) , 379-383
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000021880
Abstract
A new species of phyllocarid arthropod, Tropidocaris salsiusculus, is described from the Upper Devonian Hampshire Formation near Rowlesburg, West Virginia. The organism was found in association with numerous trace fossils, at least one of which could have been produced by T. salsiusculus, and body fossils, including Lingula sp., several bivalve mollusks and smooth ostracods. Collectively, these organisms suggest a brackish-water environment of deposition. This report represents only the third record of phyllocarids from West Virginia.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The earliest seedsNature, 1981
- Revision of the Phyllocarida from the Chemung and Waverly Groups of PennsylvaniaQuarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 1902