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Rare phyllocarid crustaceans from the Devonian Hunsrück Slate

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AußerNahecaris stuertzi sind Phyllocariden selten im Hunsrückschiefer. Die seltenen und meistens unvollständig erhaltenen Exemplare werden hier beschrieben und sieben verschiedenen Taxa zugewiesen:Heroldina rhenana, Ceratiocarina fam. et gen. indet.,Montecaris? Nahecaris? balssi, Nahecaris sp.,Dithyrocaris? sp., und Rhinocarididae gen. et sp. indet. Fast kein Stück bietet diagnostische Merkmale, die eine Bestimmung auch nur auf dem Gattungsniveau zuließen. Manche Stücke könnten von unterschiedlichen Körperregionen desselben Taxons stammen. Die Phyllocariden des Hunsrückschiefers, unter Einschluß vonNahecaris, überliefern Merkmale, die eine Verwandtschaft mit den leptostracen Malacostraca andeuten. Die Zuweisung der Phyllocariden zur Klasse Phyllopoda durch Schram (1986) wird zurückgewiesen.

Abstract

Phyllocarids other thanNahecaris stuertzi are rare in the Hunsrück Slate. The few specimens, mostly fragmentary, are here described and referred to seven different taxa:Heroldina rhenana, Ceratiocarina fam. et gen. indet.,Montecaris? sp.,Nahecaris? halssi, Nahecaris sp.,Dithyrocaris? sp., and Rhinocarididae gen. et sp. indet. Almost none of them yields diagnostic characters permitting identification at even generic level. Some may be different body regions of the same taxon. The Hunsrück Slate phyllocarids, includingNahecaris, preserve characters which indicate an affinity with the leptostracan Malacostraca. Schram’s (1986) reassignment of the phyllocarids to the Class Phyllopoda is therefore rejected.

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  1. Jan Bergström

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  1. Geological Survey, Kiliansgatan 10, S-223 50, Lund, Sweden

    Jan Bergström

  2. University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, BS8 1RJ, Bristol, UK

    Derek E. G. Briggs

  3. Skogsmyrsvägen 19, S-752 45, Uppsala, Sweden

    Erik Dahl

  4. The Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, EH1 1JF, Edinburgh, UK

    W. D. Ian Rolfe

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Bergström, J., Briggs, D.E.G., Dahl, E. et al. Rare phyllocarid crustaceans from the Devonian Hunsrück Slate. Paläont. Z. 63, 319–333 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02989518

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