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Genus: | Serrodiscus Richter & Richter, 1941 |
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ParadiscusKobayashi, 1943 [type: Microdiscus speciosus Ford, 1872] Contents |
Serrodiscus Richter and Richter 1941. [1] is a genus of Eodiscinid trilobite belonging to the family Weymouthiidae Kobayashi T. (1943), [2] Order Agnostida (Salter 1864). [3] It lived during the late Lower Cambrian, with remains found in Canada (Newfoundland & Nova Scotia), China (Gansu), The United Kingdom (England), Germany (Silesia), Poland (Holy Cross Mountains), the Russian Federation (Tuva, Gorno-Altayskaya, Kuznetsk Alatau), and the United States (Massachusetts, New York State). [4] It is named for the spines on the ventral side of the pygidium, which give it a serrated impression.
Fletcher & Theokritoff (2008) [5] designated Shaw’s (1950, pl. 79, fig. 24) [6] specimen of “Weymouthia nobilis (Ford, 1872)” [7] as the holotype of a new species, Serrodiscus weymouthioides, and considered Runcinodiscus Rushton (in Bassett et al., 1976) [8] [= ?Weymouthia nobilis (Ford, 1872)] to be a junior synonym of Serrodiscus. Weymouthia and Runcinodiscus had previously been viewed as closely allied with Serrodiscus (e.g. Rushton op. cit., 1976).
Like all Weymouthiidae, Serrodiscus lacks eyes and facial sutures. The cephalon is semi-elliptical; glabella conical or parallel sided and usually with weak or effaced furrows. Front of glabella does not extend to the anterior furrow; preglabellar field short (sag.) and sometimes separating the genae by a shallow depression. Occipital ring may or may not carry a backward-directed spine. Cephalic border convex, with up to eight pairs of tubercles laterally. Thorax has three segments. The pygidium has a wide, subconical axis with more than eight rings. The pleural fields are extremely weakly furrowed (on internal mould only). Pygidial border becomes narrower towards posterior and usually carries about 8 ventral spines either side. [4]
Serrodiscus could protect its soft underside by enrollment and it has been demonstrated that the ventral spines on the pygidial doublure interlock the nodes on the cephalic border, probably improving defense.
Agnostus is a genus of agnostid trilobites, belonging to the family Agnostidae, that lived during the late Middle Cambrian – early Upper Cambrian. It is the type genus of the family Agnostidae and is subdivided into two subgenera, Agnostus and Homagnostus.
Acidiscus Rasetti, 1966, is a genus of Eodiscinid trilobite belonging to the family Weymouthiidae Kobayashi T. (1943), Order Agnostida Salter (1864). It lived during the Botomian stage = late Lower Cambrian Stage 4 ; the upper Botomian boundary corresponds to base of the Middle Cambrian, Miaolingian Series and Wuliuan stage.
Acimetopus Rasetti, 1966, is a genus of Eodiscinid trilobite belonging to the family Weymouthiidae Kobayashi (1943), Order Agnostida Salter (1864). It lived during the Botomian stage. = late Lower Cambrian Stage 4 ; the upper Botomian boundary corresponds to base of the Middle Cambrian, Miaolingian Series and Wuliuan stage.
Analox Rasetti, 1966 is a genus of Eodiscinid trilobites belonging to the family Weymouthiidae Kobayashi T. (1943), Order Agnostida It lived during the Botomian stage. It can easily be distinguished from other trilobites by the two furrows that extend forwards and sidewards from the front of the glabella.
Bolboparia is an extinct genus of eodiscinid agnostid trilobites. It lived during the late Lower Cambrian in what today Canada and the United States.
Leptochilodiscus Rasetti, 1966 [= Kerberodiscus Bassett et al., 1976] is a genus of Lower Cambrian Eodiscinid trilobite belonging to the family Weymouthiidae Kobayashi (1943), Order Agnostida. It lived during the Botomian stage = late Lower Cambrian Stage 4 ; the upper Botomian Stage boundary corresponds to base of both the Middle Cambrian Wuliuan stage and Miaolingian Series.
Oodiscus is an extinct genus of small size trilobite, with three known species. It lived during the Toyonian in what are now Canada and the USA.
Stigmadiscus Rasetti, 1966, is a genus of Lower Cambrian Eodiscinid trilobite belonging to the family Weymouthiidae Kobayashi (1943) Order Agnostida It lived during the Botomian stage, = late Lower Cambrian Stage 4 ; the upper Botomian Stage boundary corresponds to base of both the Middle Cambrian Wuliuan stage and Miaolingian Series.
Chelediscus Rushton, 1966, is a genus of Eodiscinid trilobite belonging to the family Weymouthiidae Kobayashi T. (1943), Order Agnostida Salter (1864). The Treatise assigns this genus to the Calodiscidae; Cotton and Fortey (2005) however move it to the Weymouthiidae. Chelediscus lived during the later part of the Botomian stage.
Runcinodiscus Rushton is a genus of Lower Cambrian Eodiscinid trilobite belonging to the family Weymouthiidae, Order Agnostida.
Callavia is an extinct, monotypic genus of trilobite arthropods. C. broegeri lived during the late Atdabanian stage, which lasted from 530 to 524 million years ago during the early part of the Cambrian Period in what are today Canada and the United States.
Pagetia is a genus of small trilobite, assigned to the Eodiscinid family Pagetiidae and which had global distribution during the Middle Cambrian. The genus contains 55 currently recognized species, each with limited spatial and temporal ranges.
Weymouthia is an extinct genus of eodiscinid agnostid trilobites, which lived at the end of the Lower Cambrian, in what are now the eastern United States, England, Siberia and China.
Litometopus is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the Botomian stage.
Pleuroctenium Hawle & Corda (1847) is an agnostid trilobite belonging to the family Condylopygidae Raymond (1913). The genus occurs in Middle Cambrian (Drumian) strata of Canada, the Czech Republic, England and Wales, France, and Sweden.
Tannudiscus Pokrovskaya (1959) is a genus of Eodiscinid trilobites belonging to the family Weymouthiidae Kobayashi T. (1943), Order Agnostida. It lived during the late Lower Cambrian, with remains found in Canada (Newfoundland), China (Gansu), The United Kingdom (England), and the Russian Federation.
The Hells Mouth Grits, formally defined and renamed the Hells Mouth Formation by Young et al., is a geological formation composed of Cambrian Greywackes in the south west part of St. Tudwal's Peninsula. Equivalent to the Rhinog Formation in the Harlech Dome, the grit beds exposed at St Tudwal's are very uniform in lithology and thickness when traced along the outcrops, with a gradual thinning southwards. They exhibit the characteristic textures and structures of greywackes but differ from the normal type in being relatively well sorted and commonly laminated. Intercalated mudstones are more variable both in thickness and in lithology and contain laminated mudstones rich in sponge remains. The sandstones have sharply defined bases, often bearing sole structures and occasionally loaded. Sandstone dykes cut down from the bases of some beds and extend through up to 0.6 m of underlying siltstones. The sandstones may form sheets up to 4 m thick, although a bed thickness of up to 1m is more usual, and have been interpreted as turbidites deposited by currents from the northeast.
Plutonides is a genus of Middle Cambrian trilobite in the family Paradoxididae with species Plutonides sedgwickii and possibly Plutonides? illingi. Several other species and subspecies were at times placed in Plutonides but have subsequently been moved to other genera.
Bailiaspis Resser, 1936, is a Middle Cambrian (Miaolingian) trilobite genus belonging to the Family Conocoryphidae Angelin, 1854. Within the Acado-Baltic region, the genus ranges from Wuliuan into Guzhangian age strata.
The Hoppin Formation named for Hoppin Hill in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, contains Early Cambrian fossils associated with the explosion of multi-cellular life, beginning 539 million years ago at the start of the Phanerozoic Eon. The bottom rock units of the formation are arkose quartzite, conglomerate and sandstone. The quartzite lies on top and was sourced from the underlying Dedham Granite. Upper units in the formation include green and red slate shale, calcareous nodules and layers of red, argillite limestone.