Zygocycloides? foerstei n. sp. is described from the Llandovery (Aeronian) Brassfield Formation of southwestern Ohio. This is among the oldest reported Silurian cyclocystoids from North America and is the only North American Llandovery cyclocystoid that is preserved with a complete rim of marginal ossicles. Zygocycloides Smith and Paul, 1982 is most similar to Nicholsodiscus Glass et al., 2003 (Katian) and Perforocycloides Ewin et al., 2019 (Llandovery, Telychian), both from Anticosti Island, Québec. Cyclocystoids (Ordovician to Mississippian) survived Late Ordovician extinctions, and this discovery documents that this echinoderm clade was part of shallow-water, marine paleocommunities during the initial post-extinction transgression onto the Laurentian platform.
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11 April 2023
Recovery of Laurentian cyclocystoids following Late Ordovician extinctions (Brassfield Formation, Llandovery; southwestern Ohio)
William I. Ausich,
Nikki E. Zehler
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Journal of Paleontology
Vol. 97 • No. 2
March 2023
Vol. 97 • No. 2
March 2023