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Item Brachiopods from the Jurassic of Gebel El-Maghara, northern Sinai. American Museum novitates ; no. 3006(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1991) Feldman, Howard R.; Owen, Ellis Frederic.; Hirsch, Francis.Item Brachiopods of the Onondaga Limestone in central and southeastern New York. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 179, article 3([New York] : American Museum of Natural History, 1985) Feldman, Howard R."Thirty-nine species of brachiopods from central and southeastern New York are systematically described. This monograph is based upon 7030 specimens collected from 30 localities and includes silicified as well as nonsilicified faunas. The following members of the Onondaga Limestone were sampled: Edgecliff, Nedrow, Moorehouse, and Seneca. The Onondaga thickens considerably toward the east with the greatest net change occurring in the Moorehouse Member (19 ft. near Syracuse to 92 ft. at Saugerties). The Seneca Member disappears just east of Cherry Valley and is not found in any strata of the mid-Hudson Valley. Crinoid columnals up to about 1 inch in diameter are characteristic of the Edgecliff Member across the state but become less abundant in the east. Brachiopod diversity is greatest in the Moorehouse Member and least in the Edgecliff Member. Of the 26 species of brachiopods in the underlying Bois Blanc Formation in western New York, nine occur in the Onondaga and show no evolutionary change. Morphologic variability in the Onondaga faunas was greater laterally than vertically. For the species studied here, the high degree of stasis in the Bois Blanc-Onondaga (Emsian-Eifelian) time interval may support a punctuational model as an evolutionary mode. During Eifelian time the faunas found in central and southeastern new York belonged to the Appohimchi Subprovince of the Eastern Americas Realm and were part of the larger suite extending westward across the continent. The Onondagan brachiopods reviewed here were provincial in character with the following genera endemic to the Appohimchi Subprovince: Charionoides, 'Pacificocoelia,' and Pentagonia. Atribonium halli and Discomyorthis? sp. are the only species described herein not previously reported from Onondaga strata. No new species or genera were erected"--P. 293.Item Chonetacean brachiopods of the "Pink Chonetes" Zone, Onondaga limestone (Devonian, Eifelian), central New York. American Museum novitates ; ; no. 2982.(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1990) Rachebuf, Patrick.; Feldman, Howard R.Item Goliathyris lewyi, new species (Brachiopoda, Terebratulacea) from the Jurassic of Gebel El-Minshera, northern Sinai. American Museum novitates ; no. 2908(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1988) Feldman, Howard R.; Owen, Ellis Frederic.Item Notes on and description of Oleneothyris fragilis (Morton) 1828 (Brachiopoda, Terebratulidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 2621(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1977) Feldman, Howard R.; Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851."The Oleneothyris biostrome, a well-known stratigraphic marker at the top of the Hornerstown Formation in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, contains two distinct species of a large terebratulid brachiopod. These two species, O. harlani (Morton) and O. fragilis (Morton), may be differentiated by the prominent sulcus and fold, along with two pronounced dorsal ridges on the less robust O. fragilis. The latter species is confined vertically to a lens within the biostrome and geographically to the area around New Egypt, New Jersey. A narrowly triangular, strongly arched loop, characteristically terebratulid, is found to differ slightly from that of O. harlani. Since the holotype of O. fragilis, first described in 1828 by S.G. Morton, is either no longer in existence or lost, a neotype (RU 5700) is herein designated. The neotype is housed in Rutgers University Geological Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey"--P. [1].Item Paleoecology, taphonomy, and biogeography of a Coenothyris community (Brachiopoda, Terebratulida) from the Triassic (Upper Anisian-Lower Ladinian) of Israel. American Museum novitates ; no. 3479(New York, NY : American Museum of Natural History, 2005) Feldman, Howard R.A brachiopod community from the Fossiliferous Limestone Member (Upper Anisian-Lower Ladinian) of the Triassic Saharonim Formation at Har Gevanim, Makhtesh Ramon, southern Israel, is dominated by the terebratulid Coenothyris oweni Feldman. The community shows evidence of time-averaging and is largely composed of a single cohort of juvenile mortality of one spatfall. The Saharonim Formation was deposited under normal, calm, relatively shallow marine conditions as part of the global Anisian-Ladinian transgression. One horizon, varying in thickness between 1 and 1.5 cm, represents an autochthonous obrution deposit of juvenile Coenothyris brachiopods and 10 bivalve genera that were rapidly buried by pulses of clay in the form of flocculated mud. Other faunal constituents of the Saharonim Formation include conodonts, ostracodes, foraminiferans, bivalves, cephalopods, gastropods, echinoderms, and vertebrate remains that belong to the Sephardic Province and are diagnostic of the Middle Triassic series of Israel. The faunal composition and shallow depositional environment of the strata studied are useful in correlating the Triassic rocks in the Negev with those in Europe and help to differentiate the Sephardic Province from the Germanic Muschelkalk and the Alpine Tethyan faunas to the north.