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Article: Small Naiadites obesus from the Calciferous Sandstone Series (Lower Carboniferous) of Fife

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 4
Part: 2
Publication Date: July 1961
Page(s): 300 311
Author(s): G. M. Bennison
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Abstract

Small specimens of Naiadites occur at two horizons in the Calciferous Sandstone Series of Eastern Fife. At one horizon the small shells constitute an indigenous 'life-assemblage' (now a fossil community), and are described as dwarfed, whereas at the other the shells are exotic, comprising a fossil assemblage that should be termed a 'pebble necrocoenosis'. Variation is illustrated, and the affinities of these small Naiadites are re-examined. All are referred to the species N. obesus s.l.
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