Eokosovopeltis sp.
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https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.2010.0036 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/256187AF-7B15-FFA7-FF8F-F940FBCCDE9F |
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Felipe |
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Eokosovopeltis sp. |
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Fig. 6G View Fig .
Material.—One pygidium (repository number NIGP−152001).
Remarks.—This pygidium bears morphologic features of Eokosovopeltis . Compared with pygidia of other Late Ordovician Eokosovopeltis species such as E. romanovskii (= Bronteus romanovskii ) ( Weber 1948: pl. 7: 20–23), E. atavus (= Heptabronteus atavus ) ( Webby 1974: pl. 28: 15–18), E. grandicurvatus ( Edgecombe et al. 2004: fig. 5A–F), E. currajongensis ( Edgecombe and Webby 2007: fig. 4C, D, F–I), the pygidium differs in having an inverted trapezoidal axis with a pair of longitudinal furrows, concave anterior part of the postaxial region, and slightly convex posterior part of the postaxial region with faintly impressed longitudinal furrow. Of the species, the pygidial morphology of E. currajongensis is most similar to this pygidium, but the former differs in having a sagittally much wider articulating half ring, faintly−defined anterior limit of postaxial region, and obliquely−directed anterior margin. To confidently erect a new Eokosovopeltis species to which this pygidium is assigned requires discovery of cranidial materials.
This pygidium might be associated with the styginid cranidia assigned to Meitanillaenus ? sp. ( Fig. 6A–E View Fig ). However, the pygidium occurs in locality 2, whereas the cranidia occur in locality 3. Since the mudstone of each locality is not stratigraphically contemporaneous (see above), the association is considered less likely.
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