New Late Ordovician cornulitids from Peru

 

Authors: Vinn O, Gutiérez-Marco JC

Published in: Bulletin of Geosciences, volume 91, issue 1; pages: 89 - 95; Received 26 November 2015; Accepted in revised form 29 January 2016; Online 22 February 2016

Keywords: problematic fossils, tubeworms, Sandbian, Gondwana,

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Abstract

Two new species of cornulitids, Cornulites zatoni sp. nov. and Cornulites vilcae sp. nov., are described from the lower part (Sandbian) of the Calapuja Formation of south-western Peru. Late Ordovician cornulitid diversities of Peru (Gondwana) and Estonia (Baltica) are similar. Aggregative growth form dominates among the cornulitids of the Sandbian of Peru. Multiple oriented C. zatoni sp. nov. specimens on a strophomenid brachiopod likely represent a syn vivo encrustation. Cornulitids from the Sandbian of Peru differ from those known from the Sandbian of Baltica. C. zatoni sp. nov. possibly also occurs in the Late Ordovician of Laurentia.

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