Rhyncholepis

Rhyncholepis Temporal range: Silurian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Infraphylum:	Agnatha
Class:	† Anaspida
Order:	† Birkeniiformes
Family:	† Rhyncholepididae Kiær 1924 corrig.
Genus:	† Rhyncholepis Kiær 1911 non Miquel 1843 non Nuttall 1841
Type species
Rhyncholepis parvula Kiær 1911
Species
R. butriangulaBlom, Märss & Miller 2002 R. parvulaKiær 1911

Rhyncholepis was an extinct genus of anaspid from the Late Silurian. Fossils of species R. butriangula and R. parvula have been found in Ringerike, Norway, and Oesel, Estonia. ^[1] The genus has two species, described in 1911 and 2002.

Discovery

Rhyncholepis parvula was discovered and originally described in 1911, and described in more detail in 1924 by Norwegian Professor Johan Kiær. In the associated monograph, Kiær describes the genus in great detail, along with several other anaspids discovered around the same time.

More recently, the second discovered species (R. butriangula) was described by Henning Blom, Tiiu Märss, and C. Giles Miller in 2002. ^[2]

References

1. Ritchie, Alexander (1980). "The late Silurian anaspid genus Rhyncholepis from Oesel, Estonia, and Ringerike, Norway". The late Silurian anaspid genus Rhyncholepis from Oesel, Estonia, and Ringerike, Norway. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
2. Blom, Henning (2002). "Silurian and earliest Devonian birkeniid anaspids from the Northern Hemisphere". Silurian and earliest Devonian birkeniid anaspids from the Northern Hemisphere: 264. Retrieved 2024-01-07.