Facies architecture and depositional model for a fine‐grained hybrid‐energy delta: An example from the Upper Cambrian to Lower Ordovician Barik Formation, Central Oman

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga I. Shelukhina ◽  
Mohamed A. K. El‐Ghali ◽  
Iftikhar Ahmed Abbasi ◽  
Junaid Ahmed Khan ◽  
Mohamed Kh. Khalifa ◽  
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2005 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Waloszek ◽  
John E. Repetski ◽  
Andreas Maas

ABSTRACTPentastomida, tongue worms, are a taxon of about 130 species of parasites, living exclusively in the respiratory tracts of vertebrates. Three-dimensionally preserved Upper Cambrian larvae already demonstrate a high degree of adaptation to parasitism, striking morphological conservatism, and a high diversification by the Late Cambrian, thereby suggesting a likewise diversified host group. Not least due to their highly modified morphology, the systematic affinities of pentastomids remain controversial. The two major alternatives place the group as either close to branchiuran crustaceans or as stem-lineage derivatives of the Euarthropoda. To this set of Cambrian fossil representatives of the pentastomids we can add a new form from Lower Ordovician boundary beds from Sweden, most likely reworked from Upper Cambrian horizons. Based on this new species, named Aengapentastomum andresi gen. et sp. nov., and the available information about fossil and Recent pentastomids, we review the diverging ideas on the systematic position of this fully parasitic taxon.


1986 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 606-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce L. Stinchcomb

Fourteen new species and six new genera of the molluscan class Monoplacophora are described from the Upper Cambrian Potosi and Eminence formations and the Lower Ordovician Gasconade Formation of the Ozark Uplift of Missouri and some new biostratigraphic horizons are introduced. A new superfamily, the Hypseloconellacea nom. trans. Knight, 1956, and a new family, the Shelbyoceridae, are named. The genus Proplina is represented by five new species: P. inflatus, P. suttoni from the Cambrian Potosi Formation, P. arcua from the Cambrian Eminence Formation and P. meramecensis and P. sibeliusi from the Lower Ordovician Gasconade Formation. A new genus and species in the subfamily Proplininae, Ozarkplina meramecensis, is described from the Upper Cambrian Eminence Formation. Four new monoplacophoran genera in the superfamily Hypseloconellacea and their species are described, including: Cambrioconus expansus, Orthoconus striatus, Cornuella parva from the Eminence Formation, and Gasconadeoconus ponderosa, G. waynesvillensis, G. expansus from the Gasconade Formation. A new genus in the new family Shelbyoceridae, Archeoconus missourensis, is described from the Eminence Formation and a new species of Shelbyoceras, S. bigpineyensis, is described from the Gasconade Formation.


2003 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 646-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Pojeta ◽  
D. J. Eernisse ◽  
R. D. Hoare ◽  
M. D. Henderson

Echinochiton dufoei new genus and species is described from the Ordovician age Forreston Member, Grand Detour Formation (Blackriveran) near Beloit, Wisconsin. For a variety of reasons, we regard E. dufoei as a chiton; the species is known from four articulated or partially articulated specimens, one of which has eight plates and two of which have a mucro on the tail plate. Echinochiton dufoei differs from other chitons in having large hollow spines that project from each of the known plates. In plate shape and position, E. dufoei is much like the Upper Cambrian species Matthevia variabilis Walcott, 1885, and the Lower Ordovician species Chelodes whitehousei Runnegar, Pojeta, Taylor, and Collins (1979).


2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 550-585 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Lowe ◽  
R.W.C. Arnott ◽  
Godfrey S. Nowlan ◽  
A.D. McCracken

The Potsdam Group is a Cambrian to Lower Ordovician siliciclastic unit that crops out along the southeastern margins of the Ottawa graben. From its base upward, the Potsdam consists of the Ausable, Hannawa Falls, and Keeseville formations. In addition, the Potsdam is subdivided into three allounits: allounit 1 comprises the Ausable and Hannawa Falls, and allounits 2 and 3, respectively, the lower and upper parts of the Keeseville. Allounit 1 records Early to Middle Cambrian syn-rift arkosic fluvial sedimentation (Ausable Formation) with interfingering mudstone, arkose, and dolostone of the marine Altona Member recording transgression of the easternmost part of the Ottawa graben. Rift sedimentation was followed by a Middle Cambrian climate change resulting in local quartzose aeolian sedimentation (Hannawa Falls Formation). Allounit 1 sedimentation termination coincided with latest(?) Middle Cambrian tectonic reactivation of parts of the Ottawa graben. Allounit 2 (lower Keeseville) records mainly Upper Cambrian quartzose fluvial sedimentation, with transgression of the northern Ottawa graben resulting in deposition of mixed carbonate–siliciclastic strata of the marine Rivière Aux Outardes Member. Sedimentation was then terminated by an earliest Ordovician regression and unconformity development. Allounit 3 (upper Keeseville) records diachronous transgression across the Ottawa graben that by the Arenigian culminated in mixed carbonate–siliciclastic, shallow marine sedimentation (Theresa Formation). The contact separating the Potsdam Group and Theresa Formation is conformable, except locally in parts of the northern Ottawa graben where the presence of localized islands and (or) coastal salients resulted in subaerial exposure and erosion of the uppermost Potsdam strata, and accordingly unconformity development.


1986 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 310
Author(s):  
H.T. Moors

The Yellow Drum Formation has an extensive distribution on the Lennard Shelf of the Canning Basin. It straddles the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary and is a peritidal clearwater deposit. The environment of deposition controlled the diagenetic path followed by the sediments. The bulk of the formation was penecontem-poraneously dolomitized to a fine-grained crystalline rock with moderate porosity, with permeability too low to be an effective oil reservoir. However, in some facies the dolomite was coarser grained producing a good reservoir. Tertiary porosity was created by later leaching of remnant calcite, turning a good reservoir into an excellent reservoir.The environment of deposition is readily identified from examination of the sediments, which can then be located in a depositional model. From this the reservoir potential can be predicted. Conversely, from the identification of the portion of the depositional model in which the sediments were deposited it is possible to predict in what direction better reservoir development exists.


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