| ABOUT THE AUTHOR SAMUEL J. CIURCA, JR. |
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| SEE PHOTO OF THE GREAT PTERYGOTID, ACUTIRAMUS AND THE AUTHOR |
| FIGURING OUT THE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE LATE SILURIAN EURYPTERID-BEARING SEQUENCES ACROSS NEW YORK STATE HAS BEEN THE CHALLENGE OF MY LIFE- TIME. AND, TO DATE, THERE HAS BEEN NO SATISFACTORY INTERPRETATION OF THE STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE SEQUENCES. INDEED, MANY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EURYPTERID-BEARING UNITS STILL GO UNNOTICED. |
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| Perhaps the most important observations I have made concern the very widespread occurrence and abundance of eurypterid faunas and remains. |