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Fossils of Uncertain Affinity from the Upper Devonian of Iowa
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Fossils of Uncertain Affinity from the Upper Devonian of Iowa

Richard Arnold Davis and Holmes A. Semken
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Vol.187(4173), pp.251-254
01/24/1975
DOI: 10.1126/science.187.4173.251
PMID: 17838783

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Abstract

Thousands of specimens of the enigmatic fossil Gluteus minimus (new genus, new species) occur in a 5-centimeter-thick interval within the Maple Mill Shale and in equivalent deposits of the Devonian of eastern Iowa. They are roughly lenticular. bilobed fossils up to 11 millimeters in diameter and 8 millimeters thick. These objects consistently asymmetrical in the same direction. defy placement in any known higher taxon when their morphology. histology, and apatitic composition are considered.

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