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Evolution of Pennsylvanian stratigraphic nomenclature in the Manzanita Mountains showing changing ideas about the stratigraphic position of the Kinney Brick Quarry (from Lucas et al., 2011).
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The Kinney Brick Quarry, located in the Manzanita Mountains of central New Mexico, is a world-famous fossil locality in deposits of a marine embayment of Late Pennsylvanian age. The quantity and quality of fossil preservation identify Kinney as a Konservat Lagerstätte. This volume presents the results of recent research on the Kinney rocks and foss...
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... in the Manzano and Manzanita mountains (Lucas et al., 2011(Lucas et al., , 2013a(Lucas et al., , b, 2014Vachard et al., 2012Vachard et al., , 2013Allen and Lucas, 2018). This research placed Kinney in a different stratigraphic position and assigned it an older age than that of most workers who contributed to the 1992 volume ( Lucas et al., 2011) (Fig. 4). Additional research on the fishes at the quarry was undertaken by another UNM student, Sally Williams, who, in collaboration with SGL studied the taphonomy of the Kinney fishes (Williams and Lucas, ...
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... AND AGE In a UNM masters thesis, Stukey (1967) made the first attempt to establish the stratigraphic position and age of the Kinney Brick Quarry. He located Kinney stratigraphically low in the "arkosic limestone member" of the Madera Formation (Fig. 4). However, Charles Read claimed to have found what was then considered a Permian index fossil, the plant Callipteris, at Kinney (this claim has never been substantiated or replicated). Thus, Stukey (1967), and later Kelley and Northrop (1975, p. 49), considered that Kinney might be of Permian age and in strata equivalent to the lower ...
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... restudied the Pennsylvanian stratigraphy and biostratigraphy in the Manzano and Manzanita mountains. They rejected Myers' Pennsylvanian lithostratigraphic nomenclature, and replaced his lithostratigraphic names by the 1940s nomenclature proposed by Thompson (1942) and Kelley and Wood (1946), as modified by Rejas (1965) and Lucas et al. (2009) (Fig. 4). This revised lithostratigraphy located Kinney in the lower part of the Tinajas Member of the Atrasado Formation (Figs. 4-5), strata of Missourian age to the south of the Manzano Mountains. Indeed, fusulinids from a bed a few meters below the stratigraphic level of the Kinney fossil deposit and conodonts from the fish bed at Kinney ...
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... Pennsylvanian lithostratigraphic nomenclature, and replaced his lithostratigraphic names by the 1940s nomenclature proposed by Thompson (1942) and Kelley and Wood (1946), as modified by Rejas (1965) and Lucas et al. (2009) (Fig. 4). This revised lithostratigraphy located Kinney in the lower part of the Tinajas Member of the Atrasado Formation (Figs. 4-5), strata of Missourian age to the south of the Manzano Mountains. Indeed, fusulinids from a bed a few meters below the stratigraphic level of the Kinney fossil deposit and conodonts from the fish bed at Kinney indicate an early Missourian age (Lucas et al., ...
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... in the Manzano and Manzanita mountains (Lucas et al., 2011(Lucas et al., , 2013a(Lucas et al., , b, 2014Vachard et al., 2012Vachard et al., , 2013Allen and Lucas, 2018). This research placed Kinney in a different stratigraphic position and assigned it an older age than that of most workers who contributed to the 1992 volume ( Lucas et al., 2011) (Fig. 4). Additional research on the fishes at the quarry was undertaken by another UNM student, Sally Williams, who, in collaboration with SGL studied the taphonomy of the Kinney fishes (Williams and Lucas, ...
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... AND AGE In a UNM masters thesis, Stukey (1967) made the first attempt to establish the stratigraphic position and age of the Kinney Brick Quarry. He located Kinney stratigraphically low in the "arkosic limestone member" of the Madera Formation (Fig. 4). However, Charles Read claimed to have found what was then considered a Permian index fossil, the plant Callipteris, at Kinney (this claim has never been substantiated or replicated). Thus, Stukey (1967), and later Kelley and Northrop (1975, p. 49), considered that Kinney might be of Permian age and in strata equivalent to the lower ...
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... restudied the Pennsylvanian stratigraphy and biostratigraphy in the Manzano and Manzanita mountains. They rejected Myers' Pennsylvanian lithostratigraphic nomenclature, and replaced his lithostratigraphic names by the 1940s nomenclature proposed by Thompson (1942) and Kelley and Wood (1946), as modified by Rejas (1965) and Lucas et al. (2009) (Fig. 4). This revised lithostratigraphy located Kinney in the lower part of the Tinajas Member of the Atrasado Formation (Figs. 4-5), strata of Missourian age to the south of the Manzano Mountains. Indeed, fusulinids from a bed a few meters below the stratigraphic level of the Kinney fossil deposit and conodonts from the fish bed at Kinney ...
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... Pennsylvanian lithostratigraphic nomenclature, and replaced his lithostratigraphic names by the 1940s nomenclature proposed by Thompson (1942) and Kelley and Wood (1946), as modified by Rejas (1965) and Lucas et al. (2009) (Fig. 4). This revised lithostratigraphy located Kinney in the lower part of the Tinajas Member of the Atrasado Formation (Figs. 4-5), strata of Missourian age to the south of the Manzano Mountains. Indeed, fusulinids from a bed a few meters below the stratigraphic level of the Kinney fossil deposit and conodonts from the fish bed at Kinney indicate an early Missourian age (Lucas et al., ...
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... Shelly marine invertebrates, mainly brachiopods and bivalves (Dunbarella), crustaceans (syncarids, hoplocarids, conchostracans and ostracodes), conodonts, fishes (including coprolites and regurgitalites) lived in the estuary, while terrestrial myriapods, insects (flying adult Blattodea), arachnids (Dunlop et al. 2014;Selden 2021) and amphibians were washed in by seasonal river floods, and preserved in the anoxic muds. This Lagerstätte has recently received renewed interest (Lucas et al. 2021b). It has produced three previously documented eurypterids (Adelophthalmus) (Kues 1985;Braddy et al. 2021), but this is the first report of a Hibbertopterus. ...
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... Среди всех пермских местонахождений рыб Европейской России только Кичкасс [15] и Шихово-Чирки [16] могут сравниться по количеству и качеству материала. По сохранности комплекса ископаемых остатков Куеда-Ключики приближается к такому известному пресноводному лагерштетту, как Кинней Брик Кверри (Kinney Brick Quarry) [17] чем 10 скелетами каждый. Характерной чертой ориктокомплекса является наличие ювенильных особей лучепёрых рыб, редко встречающихся в других пермских местонахождениях. ...
The Kueda-Klyuchiki locality of Permian vertebrates located in the south of the Perm Region in the Kuedinsky District was discovered in 2005 and quickly became known among paleontologists. The locality contains a rich complex of exceptionally preserved plants and vertebrates (fish, amphibians, and reptiles). Their remains are confined to limestones of various textures, which form two bone-bearing beds in the section of the quarry. However, the age of rocks remains a controversial issue. This research aims to analyze and compare various stratigraphic markers and discuss a number of existing stratigraphic inconsistencies in an attempt to arrive at a general conclusion about the age of the locality. According to geological survey data on a scale of 1:200 000, the Buraevo Sequence (Sheshmian For-mation, Ufimian Stage) was identified in the territory of the quarry. At the boundary of the Sheshmian and Belebey Formations, a mineralogical “boundary” is observed, which is manifested in a decrease in the proportion of minerals of the epidote group and an increase in the content of black ore minerals. Terrigenous rocks of the Kueda-Klyuchiki section are close to the values of the Sheshmian Formation, in terms of the amount of epidote and black ore minerals in the heavy fraction. The results of the geo-chemical study indicate that the bitumoids of the Kueda-Klyuchiki and Posad outcrops (Kazanian Stage) developed in different paleogeographic and geomorphological conditions. The bitumoids of the Kazanian outcrop Posad formed through the sapropelic organic matter accumulated in the coastal-marine reducing conditions, while the organic matter of the Kueda-Klyuchiki outcrop formed in the relatively deep-water conditions. The composition of the ichthyological assemblage indicates the Upper Kazanian age of the section. The fish orictocenosis includes Kazanichthys viatkensis, Acropholis kamensis, Acropholis stensioei, Palaeoniscum kasanense, Platysomus biarmicus, Kargalichthys efremovi, Kargalichthys pritokensis, Platysomidae gen. indet., Palaeonisci ordo indet. sp. 1, Palaeonisci ordo indet. sp. 2. Its composition indicates that Kueda-Klyuchiki has higher stratigraphic position than most Upper Kazanian localities, which is confirmed by the absence of terminal Kazanian species. However, the composition of the ichthyofauna in Kueda-Klyuchiki differs significantly from that of the early Kazanian localities, typical of the Kazanichthys golyushermensis ichthycomplex. The orictocomplex of fish from the Kueda-Klyuchiki locality is most similar to the two Upper Kazanian localities – Aksakovo (Pechishchi beds) and Shikhovo-Chirki (Verkhnyi Uslon beds). The complex of amphibians includes temnospondyls (presumably, Melosauridae), discosauriscid (Discosauriscidae gen. ind.) and kotlassiid (Leptoropha sp.) seymouriamorphs, diapsids, and therapsid reptiles. To clarify the age of the Kueda-Klyuchiki outcrop, the results of the mineralogical analysis of the heavy fraction of terrigenous rocks and the geochemical characteristics of the dispersed organic matter from the carbonate-clayey rocks of the section are presented. The results obtained can serve as a starting point for further multidisciplinary research.
Actinopterygii makes up half of living vertebrate diversity, and study of fossil members during their Palaeozoic rise to dominance has a long history of descriptive work. Although research interest into Palaeozoic actinopterygians has increased in recent years, broader patterns of diversity and diversity dynamics remain critically understudied. Past studies have investigated macroevolutionary trends in Palaeozoic actinopterygians in a piecemeal fashion, variably using existing compendia of vertebrates or literature‐based searches. Here, we present a comprehensive occurrence‐based dataset of actinopterygians spanning the whole of the Palaeozoic. We use this to produce the first through‐Palaeozoic trends in genus and species counts for Actinopterygii. Diversity through time generally tracks metrics for sampling, while major taxonomic problems pervading the Palaeozoic actinopterygian record obscure diversity trends. Many described species are concentrated in several particularly problematic ‘waste‐basket’ genera, hiding considerable morphological and taxonomic diversity. This taxonomic confusion also feeds into a limited understanding of phylogenetic relationships. A heavy sampling bias towards Europe and North America exists in both occurrence databases and available phylogenetic matrices, with other regions underrepresented despite yielding important data. Scrutiny of the extent to which spatial biases influence the actinopterygian record is lacking, as is research on other forms of bias. Low richness in some time periods may be linked to geological biases, while the effects of taphonomic biases on Palaeozoic actinopterygians have not yet been investigated. Efforts are already underway both to redescribe poorly defined taxa and to describe taxa from underrepresented regions, helping to address taxonomic issues and accuracy of occurrence data. New methods of sampling standardisation utilising up‐to‐date occurrence databases will be critical in teasing apart biological changes in diversity and those resulting from bias. Lastly, continued phylogenetic work will enable the use of phylogenetic comparative methods to elucidate the origins of actinopterygian biogeography and subsequent patterns of radiation throughout their rise to dominate aquatic faunas.
