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Homolozoan
Kingdom: Animalia
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Paleozoic
Period: Devonian
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Early
International Age: Emsian (early)
Hunsrück Slate Group
Kaup Formation
Herrenberg Member
Collector: T. Bastelberger
Date Collected: 07/01/1977
Acquired by: Field Collection
Length: 12 mm
Heap pile "Grube Herrenberg"
Bundenbach
Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Taxonomy from Ruta and Bartels 1998.
Description (Südkamp 2017, p. 98): "The theca is roughly rectangular. The lateral margins are slightly arcuate longitudinally. The dorsal surface is composed of 11 marginal and two central plates; the oral surface consists of 20 plates, which are arranged in five transverse rows. The plates are thick. The sculpture of both surfaces close to the aulacophore consists of widely spaced, wavy ridges. One margin is entirely occupied by the insertion of the aulacophore; at the opposite roughly strait margin one spine articulates per corner. The elongate aulacophore tapers rapidly at the body margin and bears long spines. In most cases the aulacophore is curved over the theca.
Identified by oilshale.
References:
IMRAN A. RAHMAN, RICHARD P. S. JEFFERIES, WOUTER H. SÜDKAMP and RUD. A. SMITH (2009) ICHNOLOGICAL INSIGHTS INTO MITRATE PALAEOBIOLOGY. Palaeontology, Vol. 52, Part 1, 2009, pp. 127–138.
RUTA, M., BARTELS, C. (1998) A redescription of the anomalocystitid mitrate Rhenocystis latipedunculata from the Lower Devonian of Germany. Palaeontology, 41, 4, 771–806.
Südkamp, W. (2017) Life in the Devonian. Identification book Hunsrück Slate fossils. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. München 2017. ISBN978-3-89937-221-2.
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