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Arabellites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Annelida
    Class:  
Polychaetia
    Order:  
Errantida
    Family:  
Leodicidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Arabellites HINDE, 1879
    Type Species:  
*A. hamatus


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Fig. 87,1. *A. hamatllS, Ord.(Pulaski), Ont.; X20 (66).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

N. Am.-Eu.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Ord.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Tremadocian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
486.85
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Dev.
    Ending International Stage:  
Famennian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
359.3


Description

Forceps with very large hook and row of denticles on wide base, mandibles subquadrate in form with straight, denticulate, upper edge




References

Hinde, G. J., 1879, On conodonts from the Chazy and Cincinnati group of the Cambro-Silurian, and from the Hamilton and Genesee-shale divisions of the Devonian, in Canada and the United States: Geol. Soc. London, Quart. Jour., v. 35, art. 29, p. 351-369, pl. 15-17.


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