Asterolepis Eichwald, 1840 sensu Agassiz 1844
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Genus Asterolepis Eichwald, 1840 sensu Agassiz (1844)
TYPE SPECIES. — Asterolepis ornata Eichwald, 1840 (Eichwald 1840b), sensu Agassiz (1844); East Baltic area, Main Devonian Field, Gauja Formation, Middle Devonian (late Givetian).
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Eichwald first proposed the name Asterolepis ornata in a November, 1839, letter to H. G. Bronn of Stuttgart. The letter was published sometime after April of the following year (Eichwald 1840b) in the annual journal at which Bronn served as co-editor, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrekaften-Kunde. This reference has been mis- cited (e.g., Lyarskaja 1981; Upeniece 2011) as a publication of Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Paläontologie, a title change for the journal that only occurred after Bronn’s death in 1862 and then continued through to 1942. In an earlier 1840 publication (published in April), Eichwald (1840a: 79) mentions, though misspells, “Astrolepis” but makes no formal proposal of the name and does not use the name of the type species, A. ornata. His casual use of the name “Astrolepis” here is likely due to his previously written, though not yet published, proposal of A. ornata in his letter to Bronn. The quirk of publication schedules means that the earlier Eichwald (1840a) publication, in Bulletin scientifique de l’Académie impériale des Sciences de Saint Petersbourg, is the first published occurrence of “Astrolepis,” though not of the type species name. This understanding reveals that the original spelling of Asterolepis is actually “Astrolepis.” However, considering the subsequent spelling’s prevailing (though not exclusive; see Murphy et al. 1976) usage and its common attribution to the publication containing the original spelling (e.g., Traquair 1888; Woodward 1891; Rohon 1899; Gross 1931, 1933; Karatajūte-Talimaa 1963; Lyarskaja 1981; Janvier & Villarroel 2000; Moloshnikov 2008; Newman & Den Blaauwen 2018), the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Article 33.3.1) supports Asterolepis as a correct spelling.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Eichwald, 1840 sensu Agassiz
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Tortricidae
- Genus
- Asterolepis
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- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Asterolepis Eichwald, 1844 sec. Downs, Daeschler, Lo, Carey & Shubin, 2019
References
- AGASSIZ L. 1844. - Monographie des Poissons Fossiles du Vieux Gres Rouge ou Systeme Devonien (Old Red Sandstone) des iles Britanniques et de Russie. Soleure, Neuchatel, 171 p. (in French). https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 5752
- EICHWALD E. 1840 b. - Geognostische Uebersicht von Esthland und den Nachbar-Gegenden. Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 1840: 421 - 430 [in German].
- LYARSKAJA L. A. 1981. - Baltic Devonian Placodermi: Asterolepididae. Zinatne, Riga, Latvia, 152 p. [in Russian with English summary].
- UPENIECE I. 2011. - Palaeoecology and juvenile individuals of the Devonian placoderm and acanthodian fishes from Lode site, Latvia. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https: // dspace. lu. lv / dspace / handle / 7 / 4659 (last access on 3 rd October 2019).
- EICHWALD E. 1840 a. - Die Tier und Pflanzenreste des alten rothen Sandsteins und Bergkalks in Novogrodischen Gouvernement. Bulletin Scientifique publie par l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Petersbourg et redige par son Secretaire perpetuel 7 (6, 7): 78 - 91 [in German].
- MURPHY M. A., MORGAN T. G. & DINELEY D. L. 1976. - Astrolepis sp. from the Upper Devonian of Central Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 50 (3): 467 - 471. https: // www. jstor. org / stable / 1303528
- TRAQUAIR R. H. 1888. - On the structure and classification of the Asterolepidae. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh 10: 23 - 46. https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 25123533
- WOODWARD A. S. 1891. - The Devonian fish-fauna of Spitsbergen. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6, 8 (43): 1 - 15. https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 19244677
- ROHON J. V. 1899. - Die devonischen fische von Timan in Russland. Sitzungsberichte der koniglische bohmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe 8: 1 - 77 [in German].
- GROSS W. 1931. - Asterolepis rnate Eichw. Und das Antiarchiproblem. Palaeontographica Abteilung A. Band 75. Lieferung 1 - 2: 1 - 62 [in German].
- GROSS W. 1933. - Die Fische des Baltischen Devons. Palaeontographica Abteilung A. Band 79. Lieferung 1 - 2: 1 - 74 [in German].
- JANVIER P. & VILLARROEL C. 2000. - Devonian vertebrates from Colombia. Palaeontology 43 (4): 729 - 763. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / 1475 - 4983.00147
- MOLOSHNIKOV S. 2008. - Devonian antiarchs (Pisces, Antiarchi) from Central and Southern European Russia. Paleontological Journal 42 (7): 691 - 773. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0031030108070010
- NEWMAN M. J. & DEN BLAAUWEN J. L. 2018. - A redescription of the endemic antiarch placoderm Asterolepis thule from the Middle Devonian (Givetian) of Shetland and its biostratigraphical horizon. Scottish Journal of Geology https: // doi. org / 10.1144 / sjg 2018 - 005