Biology:Acastoides

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Short description: Genus of trilobites (fossil)

Acastoides
Temporal range: 428–392 Ma
Middle Silurian (Wenlock) to Devonian (?Eifelian)
Acastoides zguilmensis lateral 2.jpg
Acastoides zguilmensis, Devonian, Morocco.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Trilobita
Order:
Phacopida
Suborder:
Phacopina
Superfamily:
Acastoidea
Family:
Acastidae
Genus:
Acastoides

Delo, 1935
Species
  • A. henni (R. Richter, 1916) (type) = Acaste henni
  • A. constricta (Salter, 1864) synonyms Phacops (Acaste) downingiae constrictus, P. constrictus, Acaste (Acastoides) constrictus[1]
  • A. acutilobata (Knod, 1908)
  • A. gamonedensis
  • A. haddadi Chatterton, Fortey, Brett, Gibb & McKellar, 2006
  • A. insolitus Wolfart, 1968
  • A. maura Alberti, 1969
  • A. paeckelmanni R. Richter & E. Richter, 1939
  • A. poschmanni Basse & Müller, 2016[2]
  • A. zguilmensis Chatterton, Fortey, Brett, Gibb & McKellar, 2006

Acastoides is an extinct genus of trilobite that lived during the Silurian and Devonian. It has been found in Bolivia, France, Morocco, Poland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Distribution

  • A. constricta is found in the Silurian of the United Kingdom (Wenlock, Woolhope Shale, Worcestershire, Malvern).[3]

Taxonomy

Species previously assigned to Acastoides

  • A. verneuili = Calmonia terrarocenai[4]

See also

  • List of trilobites

References

  1. ↑ Sherwood, J.H. (1966). "A Revision of Acaste downingiae (Murchinson) and related trilobites". Palaeontology 9 (2): 183–207. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20110716060014/http://palaeontology.palass-pubs.org/pdf/Vol%209/Pages%20183-207.pdf. 
  2. ↑ Martin Basse; Peter Müller (2016). "Trilobiten aus dem Ober-Emsium und frühen Eifelium der südlichen Lahnmulde (Rupbach-Schiefer, Leun-Schiefer und Ballersbach-Kalk)". Abhandlungen der Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung 572: 1–329. ISBN 978-3-510-61407-3. 
  3. ↑ "42 (Acastoides constricta)". The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, the Lapworth Museum of Geology and the University of Birmingham Collections. http://mimsy.bham.ac.uk/detail.php?t=objects&type=browse&f=option3&s=The+Lapworth+Museum+of+Geology&record=41. Retrieved 17 March 2013. 
  4. ↑ Edgecombe, G.D. (1993). "Silurian Acastacean trilobites of the Americas". Journal of Paleontology 67 (4): 535–548. doi:10.1017/S0022336000024884. Bibcode: 1993JPal...67..535E. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources-rx/files/edgecombe-1993-acastaceans-94161.pdf. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q4672172 entry




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