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FIGURE 5 in A new phosphatized ophiuroid from the lower Triassic of Nevada and its position in the evolutionary history of the Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata)

  • 1. Natural History Museum Luxembourg, Department of Paleontology, 25 rue Münster, 2160 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. Department of Geosciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA.

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FIGURE 5: Dissociated disc plates of the ophiuroid Ophiosuperstes praeparvus gen. et sp. nov., from the Virgin Limestone Member of the Moenkopi Formation, Spathian, lower Triassic, Lost Cabin Springs locality, southern Nevada. A: paratype (OPH188), oral plate in abradial view. B: paratype (OPH189), radial shield in external view, with outline of missing proximal tip reconstructed using a dashed grey line. C: paratype (OPH190) adradial genital plate in dorsal view. Abbreviations: AMF: abradial muscle fossa; do: dorsal; LG: longitudinal groove; pr: proximal. All scale bars equal 0.2 mm.

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Published as part of Thuy, Ben, Maxwell, Vivienne & Pruss, Sara B., 2021, A new phosphatized ophiuroid from the lower Triassic of Nevada and its position in the evolutionary history of the Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata), pp. 369-383 in Zootaxa 5071 (3) on page 378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5071.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5723744

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