caa a22 4500 388017287 CHVBK 20180307124914.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022336000036258 doi S0022336000036258 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022336000036258 Middle Triassic cnidarians from the New Pass Range, Central Nevada [Elektronische Daten] [Ewa Roniewicz, George D. Stanley] We describe three scleractinian corals and one species of hydrozoan from the New Pass Range, central Nevada, which together constitute the oldest Triassic cnidarian assemblage from North America. They occur in carbonate rocks tentatively correlated with the Augusta Mountain Formation, Star Peak Group. At generic and higher levels, these cnidarians seem representative of early Mesozoic Tethyan faunas and carbonate lithofacies, but they indicate some endemism. Although the original aragonitic skeletons and microstructure are destroyed by recrystallization, the corals still yield important details allowing their correct taxonomic assignment. They contain the minitrabecular cerioid coral, Ceriostella variabilis new genus and species, the thick-trabecular, thamnasteroid coral Mesomorpha newpassensis new species, and an undeterminable cuifastreid coral tentatively assigned to Cuifastraea. The discovery of Mesomorpha marks the first occurrence of this genus outside the Jurassic and Cretaceous seas. Also discovered is a remarkably corallike hydrozoan, Cassianastraea reussi (Laube), already known from the Carnian stage of the western Tethys. This is the first occurrence of this species outside the western Tethys. Copyright © The Paleontological Society Roniewicz Ewa Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, ul. Twarda 51/55, PL-00-918 Warszawa, Poland <e-mail: eron@twarda.pan.pl> aut Stanley George D. Department of Geology, The University of Montana, Missoula 59812 <e-mail: fossil@selway.umt.edu> aut Journal of Paleontology Cambridge University Press 72/2(1998-03), 246-256 0022-3360 72:2<246 1998 72 JPA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022336000036258 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022336000036258 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Roniewicz Ewa Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, ul. Twarda 51/55, PL-00-918 Warszawa, Poland <e-mail: eron@twarda.pan.pl> aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stanley George D. Department of Geology, The University of Montana, Missoula 59812 <e-mail: fossil@selway.umt.edu> aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Paleontology Cambridge University Press 72/2(1998-03), 246-256 0022-3360 72:2<246 1998 72 JPA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge