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Loganellia FREDHOLM 1990

Description

LOGANELLIA FREDHOLM, 1990

Type speciesThelodus scoticus Traquair, 1898.

LOGANELLIA SP. CF. L. CUNEATA

(TABLE 1; SUPPL. 1, FIGS. 1, 4)

Referred specimens —One scale from BCII level 27’ (8.2 m); two scales from level 430.5’ (131.2 m): Roberts Mountains Formation.

Description and comparison —Elongate teardrop-shaped scales with two sharp crown ridges. The base is oval and extends about two-thirds crown length. There is no anterior basal spur.

This scale resembles those described as Loganellia cuneata (Gross 1947, pl. 3; 1967, pl. 3) from the Přidolí of Britain, Europe, and Russia (Märss et al. 2007) but also is similar to the much older L. sulcata and L. prolata (Märss et al. 2002) from the Lower Silurian of arctic Canada. Without more material, the designation can only be tentative.

Notes

Published as part of Burrow, Carole Jan, Murphy, Michael & Turner, Susan, 2023, Late Silurian to earliest Devonian vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Birch Creek II section, Roberts Mountains, Nevada, U. S. A., pp. 1-32 in PaleoBios 40 (4) on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.5070/P940454153, http://zenodo.org/record/10913559

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
FREDHOLM
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Loganelliformes
Family
Loganelliidae
Genus
Loganellia
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Loganellia FREDHOLM, 1990 sec. Burrow, Murphy & Turner, 2023

References

  • Fredholm, D. 1990. Agnathan vertebrates in the Lower Silurian of Gotland, Sweden. Geologiska Foreningens i Stockholm Forhandlingar 112: 61 - 84.
  • Traquair, R. H. 1898. [Report on fossil fishes]. Summary of Progress, Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1897, p. 72 - 76.
  • Gross, W. 1947. Die Agnathen und Acanthodier des obersilurischen Beyrichienkalks. Palaeontographica Abt. A 96: 91 - 161.
  • Marss, T., S. Turner, and V. Karatajute-Talimaa. 2007. Agnatha II-Thelodonti. Volume 1 B. 143 pp. Verlag Dr Friedrich Pfeil, Munich.
  • Marss, T., M. V. H. Wilson, and R. Thorsteinsson. 2002. New thelodont (Agnatha) and possible chondrichthyan (Gnathostomata) taxa established in the Silurian and Lower Devonian of Arctic Canada. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Geology 51: 88 - 120.