| Reference Type | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
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| Title | Kleptothule rasmusseni gen. et sp. nov.: an ?olenellinid-like trilobite from the Sirius Passet fauna (Buen Formation, Lower Cambrian, North Greenland) |
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| Journal | Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences |
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| Authors | Budd, Graham E. | Author |
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| Year | 1995 | Volume | 86 |
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| Issue | 1 |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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| DOI | doi:10.1017/s0263593300002121Search in ResearchGate |
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| Mindat Ref. ID | 494447 | Long-form Identifier | mindat:1:5:494447:2 |
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| Full Reference | Budd, Graham E. (1995) Kleptothule rasmusseni gen. et sp. nov.: an ?olenellinid-like trilobite from the Sirius Passet fauna (Buen Formation, Lower Cambrian, North Greenland) Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 86 (1) 1-12 doi:10.1017/s0263593300002121 |
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| Plain Text | Budd, Graham E. (1995) Kleptothule rasmusseni gen. et sp. nov.: an ?olenellinid-like trilobite from the Sirius Passet fauna (Buen Formation, Lower Cambrian, North Greenland) Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 86 (1) 1-12 doi:10.1017/s0263593300002121 |
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| In | (1995) Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences Vol. 86 (1) Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
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| Abstract/Notes | AbstractThe Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna from Peary Land, North Greenland, is a rich repository of soft-bodied and poorly-sclerotised fossils. A new arthropod from the fauna, Kleptothule rasmusseni, is described. The animal is broadly trilobite-like, possessing a trilobed exoskeleton which is divided into distinct cephalic, thoracic and caudal regions. However, it is unusual in that it possesses a large number of segments, and demonstrates pronounced cephalic segmentation, and a very narrow cephalon and thorax. There is some evidence that the exoskeleton was lightly mineralised.Kleptothule is compared to some of the olenellimd trilobites, especially those taxa that possess a many-segmented ‘opisthothorax’. Its morphology raises some issues discussed by Lauterbach (1983) in his assignment of some olenellids to the stem-group of the chelicerates. However, it is not considered herein that such a model can be supported. A complete analysis of basal trilobites and the stem-group leading to them must await a fuller description of key taxa from China and Greenland. |
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