Scaphites of the "nodosus group" from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of the Western Interior of North America. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 342)
| dc.contributor.author | Landman, Neil H. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kennedy, W. J. (William James) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cobban, William A., 1916-2015. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Larson, Neal L. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-22T13:05:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-09-22T13:05:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.description | 242 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. "Issued September 21, 2010." | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Scaphitid ammonites (scaphites) are common in the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale and Bearpaw Shale of the Western Interior of North America. We redescribe Hoploscaphites nodosus (Owen, 1852) and H. brevis (Meek, 1876) from the Baculites compressus–B. cuneatus zones of the upper Campanian. The types of both of these species were collected in the mid-19th century in what was then called Nebraska Territory, and included parts of present-day South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana. Based on our present knowledge of the distribution of these species, the type material was probably collected from the B. compressus–B. cuneatus zones in the Pierre Shale at Sage Creek, a tributary of the Cheyenne River, Pennington County, South Dakota. Traditionally, the more robust, more coarsely ornamented scaphites (comprising the "nodosus group") from the Pierre Shale and Bearpaw Shale were assigned to Jeletzkytes Riccardi, 1983, and the more slender, more finely ornamented scaphites were assigned to Hoploscaphites Nowak, 1911. However, our large collections of these scaphites from the Baculites compressus–B. cuneatus zones reveal a complete intergradation between the two morphological extremes, and for many specimens, the choice of genus is arbitrary. In addition, our studies of other biostratigraphic zones in the Pierre Shale and Bearpaw Shale reveal that cooccurring species of these two "genera" share more in common with each other than they do with congeneric species from other horizons. Furthermore, contrary to earlier assumptions, Jeletkytes is not endemic to the Western Interior Basin of North America and occurs, for example, in the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain and Europe. We thus provisionally treat Jeletzkytes as a junior subjective synonym of Hoploscaphites. This expanded definition of Hoploscaphites is consistent with present-day concepts of other scaphitid genera such as Discoscaphites Meek, 1876, and Trachyscaphites Cobban and Scott, 1964... | en |
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| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/6083 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | American Museum of Natural History. | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 342. | en |
| dc.subject | Hoploscaphites nodosus. | en |
| dc.subject | Hoploscaphites brevis. | en |
| dc.subject | Scaphites. | en |
| dc.subject | Ammonoidea. | en |
| dc.subject | West (U.S.) | en |
| dc.title | Scaphites of the "nodosus group" from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of the Western Interior of North America. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 342) | en |