New placoderm fishes from the Late Devonian of South Africa

Long, John A; Anderson, M Eric; Gess, Robert W; Hiller, Norton

Title: New placoderm fishes from the Late Devonian of South Africa
Creator: Long, John A
Creator: Anderson, M Eric
Creator: Gess, Robert W
Creator: Hiller, Norton
Date Issued: 1997
Date: 1997
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72763
Identifier: vital:30108
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.1997.10010973
Description: New placoderm fishes are described from a black shale lens in the Famennian Witpoort Formation, near Grahamstown, South Africa. Arthrodires include a new species of Groenlandaspis, G. riniensis sp. nov., a new genus of groenlandaspidid, Africanaspis doryssa gen. et sp. nov., and a new species of the antiarch Bothriolepis, B. africana sp. nov. This is the first record of the ubiquitous genera Bothriolepis and Groenlandaspis from the African continent. The South African placoderm fauna has demonstrable links with the eastern Gondwana faunas in the close affinity of the Bothriolepis africana with B. barred of Antarctica, and the high diversity of groenlandaspid species, especially the presence of a very high crested form having affinities to Tiaraspis.
Format: 115 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Relation: Long, J.A., Anderson, M.E., Gess, R. and Hiller, N., 1997. New placoderm fishes from the Late Devonian of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17(2), pp.253-268.
Relation: . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology volume 17 number 2 253 268 February 1997 1937-2809
Rights: Taylor and Francis
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