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Characterization of the placoderm (Gnathostomata) assemblage from the tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud (Belgium, upper Famennian)
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Characterization of the placoderm (Gnathostomata) assemblage from the tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud (Belgium, upper Famennian)

Sebastien Olive, Gael Clement, Edward B. Daeschler and Vincent Dupret
Palaeontology, v 58(6), pp 981-1002
Nov 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12190View
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Abstract

Arthrodira Arthropoda Belgium Chordata Devonian Europe Evieux Formation Famennian faunal list faunal studies floral list floral studies Groenlandaspididae Invertebrata lithostratigraphy morphology Namur Belgium new taxa Paleozoic Phyllolepis undulata Pisces Placodermi Plantae Strud Belgium taxonomy Turrisaspis strudensis Upper Devonian upper Famennian Vertebrata Vertebrate paleontology Wallonia Belgium Western Europe
The placoderm fauna of the late Famennian tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud, Belgium, is studied on the basis of historical and newly collected material. It includes the previously described antiarch Grossilepis rikiki, the groenlandaspidid Turrisaspis strudensis sp. nov. and the actinolepidoideid Phyllolepis undulata. P. undulata is thoroughly described and joins the list of the valid Phyllolepis species confidently diagnosed. A morphometrical analysis performed on the centronuchal and anterior ventrolateral plates of the Phyllolepis material demonstrates that there is only one species of Phyllolepis in Belgium (thus, Phyllolepis konincki becomes a junior synonym of P. undulata), that P. rossimontina (Pennsylvania) is a synonym of P. undulata and that the unity of the genus Phyllolepis is strongly supported, although the characterization of several species within this genus is blurred. The strong resemblance between the faunal compositions in Strud and Red Hill (Pennsylvania, USA) suggests important faunal exchanges between these regions of the Euramerica landmass. Abstract Copyright The Palaeontological Association.

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