LOWER DEVONIAN TRILOBITES FROM COBAR, NEW SOUTH WALES

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 Abstract - A Lower Devonian (Lochkovian-Pragian) trilobite fauna from the Biddabirra Formation near Cobar, New South Wales, Australia includes 11 previously undescribed species (Alberticoryphe sp., Cornuproetus sp., Gerastos sandfordi sp. nov., Cyphaspis mcnamarai sp. nov., Kainops cf. ekphymus,
Paciphacops sp., Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) edgecombei sp. nov., Crotalocephalus sp. and Leonaspis sp., a styginid sp., and a harpetid sp.). Three species belonging
to the genera Paciphacops, Kainops, Acanthopyge (Lobopyge), and Leonaspis are preserved with sufficient detail to provide enough information to be coded and analysed by two cladistic analyses. The resulting cladograms provide justification for the monophyly of Paciphacops and further support for Kainops. Leonaspis sp. is placed as the most plesiomorphic species within the monophyletic Leonaspis.

Author(s) EBACH, MALTE CHRISTIAN : Part 4
Page Number
353

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