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The homalonotid trilobite Burmeisteria Salter, 1865 in the Lower Devonian of Argentina: new data in the context of southwestern Gondwana

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Juan José Rustán Open the ORCID record for Juan José Rustán [Opens in a new window] ,
Beatriz G. Waisfeld  and
N. Emilio Vaccari
Juan José Rustán
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Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba (X5016GCA) and Universidad Nacional de La Rioja, Argentina ,
Beatriz G. Waisfeld
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Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba (X5016GCA), Argentina
N. Emilio Vaccari
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Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba (X5016GCA) and Universidad Nacional de La Rioja, Argentina ,
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Abstract

The homalonotid trilobite Burmeisteria Salter, 1865 is revised from material from the Lower Devonian of central western Argentina (the Talacasto Formation in the Precordillera Basin). In contrast to other closely related Devonian marine basins from South America (mainly Bolivia, Brazil and Uruguay), the only species recognized in Argentina include Burmeisteria herschelii (Murchison, 1839) and B. notica (Clarke, 1913). New observations on the structure of the carapace indicate that structures sometimes interpreted as granules with taxonomic meaning are, in fact, taphonomic characters that represent the fillings of pore canals exposed by decortication. The antero-ventral process of the rostral plate may be a locking device during enrollment, which allowed long-term defensive behavior with a minimum of muscular energy. Burmeisteria is an upper Silurian to Middle Devonian endemic representative of southwestern Gondwanan (Malvinokaffric) basins. In the Argentine Precordillera Basin, this genus is virtually restricted to a sandy, Pragian, stratigraphic interval capped by a marker bed first reported by Keidel in 1921.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 94 , Issue 3 , May 2020 , pp. 498 - 512
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