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Per Ahlberg

Per Ahlberg

Professor emeritus

Per Ahlberg

Paradoxides brachyrhachis Linnarsson, 1883 versus Paradoxides mediterraneus Pompeckj, 1901: a problematic determination

Author

  • Maria Eugenia Dies Alvarez
  • Adrian W. A. Rushton
  • Rodolfo Gozalo
  • Gian Luigi Pillola
  • Eladio Linan
  • Per Ahlberg

Summary, in English

A revision of paradoxidid trilobites reveals that previous identifications of specimens from Sardinia and Spain as the Nordic trilobite species Paradoxides brachyrhachis Linnarsson, 1883, are mistaken. The southern species, occurring also in France, is here referred to Eccaparadoxides mediterraneus (Pompeckj, 1901). Main differences are seen in the preocular field, pleural furrow and pygidium. The species P. brachyrhachis is referred with question to the genus Mawddachites Fletcher 2007.

Department/s

  • Lithosphere and Biosphere Science

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Pages

95-104

Publication/Series

GFF

Volume

132

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Geology

Keywords

  • Mediterranean subprovince
  • Spain
  • Sardinia
  • Scandinavia
  • middle Cambrian
  • Mawddachites? brachyrhachis
  • Trilobites
  • Eccaparadoxides mediterraneus

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2000-0863