Title: Carboniferous Ostracodes in the Rhadamès Basin of Western Libya: Paleoecological Implications and Comparison with North America, Europe and the Ussr
Abstract: Carboniferous ostracode assemblages from two boreholes in the Rhadamès Basin of western Libya are compared with ostracode assemblages of the same age in North America, Western Europe and the USSR. The assemblages of the M'rar and Assedjefar Formations are characteristic of intertidal environments. These are compared with intertidal ostracode faunas from the late Devonian to early Dinantian of Belgium, and with near-shore faunas from the Upper Carboniferous of Spain and northwestern Europe. The assemblage of the Dembaba Formation is characteristic of a substital environment. Similar ostracode faunas have been described from subtidal or offshore deposits in the Devonian and Carboniferous of North America, Western Europe and the USSR. One genus (Rhadamesella) and nine species (Mammoides bouckaerti, Monoceratina kockeli, Marginohealdia africana, Marginohealdia paprothae, Paracavellina fernetae, Cribroconcha streeli, Graphiadactyllis beckeri; Rhadamesella rhadamesensis and Rhadamesella bourdoni) are new.
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'doaj']
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