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Ichnotaxonomic assessment of Mazon Creek area trace fossils, Illinois, USA
dc.contributor.advisor | Hasiotis, Stephen T. | |
dc.contributor.author | LoBue, David J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-19T23:33:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-11-19T23:33:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-08-12 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11065 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10406 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Francis Creek Shale Member (FCSM) of the Mid-Pennsylvanian Carbondale Formation along Mazon Creek in northern Illinois is known for soft-bodied organisms preserved within siderite concretions. Trace fossils, though less well known, also occur in concretions. Several hundred trace-fossil-bearing concretions were examined from collections at The Field Museum, Chicago, and The University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence. Identification was based on accepted diagnostic criteria and comparison with like specimens. Described were 24 ichnogenera and 28 ichnospecies, including a new ichnospecies of Pennatulites and a new ichnogenera of coprolite--Funiculichnus spiralis, unnamed trace fossils including a bivalve-locomotion trail, spiral and amorphous coprolites, and two possible galls, and several deformation structures and body fossils misidentified as trace fossils. Trace-fossil assemblages indicate a Skolithos-Cruziana ichnofacies transition from shallow, high-energy to deeper, lower-energy nearshore marine environments, which is consistent with previous interpretations that the FCSM was deposited in a nearshore, deltaic environment. | |
dc.format.extent | 128 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Paleontology | |
dc.subject | Carboniferous | |
dc.subject | Ichnology | |
dc.subject | Ichnotaxonomy | |
dc.subject | Mazon creek | |
dc.subject | Trace fossils | |
dc.title | Ichnotaxonomic assessment of Mazon Creek area trace fossils, Illinois, USA | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Selden, Paul A. | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Walton, Anthony W. | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Geology | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | M.S. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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