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The Silurian pelagic myodocope ostracod Richteria migrans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2008

Vincent Perrier
Affiliation:
Université Lyon 1, Lyon, F-69003, France; UFR Sciences de la Terre, CNRS, UMR 5125 PEPS ‘Paléoenvironnements et Paléobiosphère’, Bâtiment Géode, 2 rue Raphäel Dubois, 69622 Villeurbanne, France. E-mail: vincent.perrier@univ-lyon1.fr
Jean Vannier
Affiliation:
Université Lyon 1, Lyon, F-69003, France; UFR Sciences de la Terre, CNRS, UMR 5125 PEPS ‘Paléoenvironnements et Paléobiosphère’, Bâtiment Géode, 2 rue Raphäel Dubois, 69622 Villeurbanne, France. E-mail: vincent.perrier@univ-lyon1.fr
David J. Siveter
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Bennett Building, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK

Abstract

A study of type and newly collected material of the Silurian ostracod Richteria migrans (Barrande, 1872) demonstrates that it had wide distribution, occurring in at least the Czech Republic, France, Sardinia, Wales, central Asia and probably Poland. R. migrans has biostratigraphic value, as an indicator for the mid to late part of the Ludlow Series. It was almost certainly pelagic, living predominantly in probable shelf topographic lows to marginal/off-shelf environments, characteristically with cephalopod-graptolite-bivalve-dominant associates. It had at least five to six growth stages, exhibits polymorphic variation, and its morphology provides evidence to endorse the notion that ‘entomozoaceans’ are myodocopes.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2007

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