Diplorrhina Hawle and Corda (1847) [2] is a genus of trilobite belonging to Order Agnostida. It lived during the early Middle Cambrian (Amgan and Mayan stages) in what are now the Czech Republic and the North Siberian plateau. as in members of the family Peronopsidae it lacks a preglabellar furrow. Both cephalon and pygidium lack spines. It is difficult to distinguish Diplorrhina from many other peronopsids.[3]
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Taxonomy edit
The ancestor of Diplorrhina is most likely one of the Siberian species of the genus Archaeagnostus. D. recta is the most primitive species and it gave rise to D. cuneifera, which was in turn ancestral to Diplorrhina triplicata.[3]
Species previously assigned to Diplorrhina edit
- D. normata = Peronopsis (Proacadagnostus) normata
- D. spitiensis = Peronopsis (Svenax) spitiensis[3]
Distribution edit
- D. triplicata is known from the early Middle Cambrian of the Czech Republic (Eccaparadoxides pusillus and P. gracilisZones, Skryje Beds, pod hruskou, near Tyrovice and near Ginetz).[1]
- D. cuneifera has been collected from the early Middle Cambrian of the Czech Republic (Eccaparadoxides pusillusZone Skryje Beds, near Tyrovice) [4]
- D. redita occurs in the early Middle Cambrian of the Czech Republic (Paradoxides gracilis Zone, Jince Formation). Agnostus cambrensis Harkness & Hicks (1871, p. 390) [5] was identified by Lake (1906, p. 18) [6] as Agnostus integer Beyrich [7] (now Peronopsis integra), but re-examination of this specimen shows it to be referable to Diplorrhina redita (Pek & Vanĕk 1971, p.274, pl.1, figs. 4 & 5). [8] The species was placed in Peronopsis by Rees et al., (2014, p. 73). [9] From upper part of the Whitesands Bay Formation (Rees et al., 1914 p. 72), lower T. fissus Biozone.
- D. recta was recovered from the early Middle Cambrian of Eastern Siberia (Ovatoryctocara Zone, Molodo River, Olenek Uplift, and Kounamkite-zone, Nekekit River and Amidai River, all Western Jakutia).
- D. lata is found in the Middle Cambrian of Eastern Siberia (Kounamkites Zone, Nekekit River).[3]
Description edit
Both border and border furrow of the cephalon are relatively narrow. The transglabellar furrow is straight or curved slightly towards posterior. The posterior glabellar lobe is parallel sided, has two pairs of lateral furrows and small basal lobes; there is no median node. The pygidial border is flattened and wide with posterolateral angles, but no spines. The pygidal lobes reach the median node but do not cross the axis. The distance between the pygidial axis and border furrow is short or sometimes touching.[3]
Differences with Peronopis edit
Diplorrhina differs from members of the subgenus Peronopsis (Peronopsis) in the better developed transaxial furrows, better developed lateral furrows of the glabella, larger basal lobes, and in the trend towards the formation of a transverse depression of the axis.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b WHITTINGTON, H. B. et al. Part O, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Revised, Volume 1 – Trilobita – Introduction, Order Agnostida, Order Redlichiida. 1997
- ^ HAWLE, J. & CORDA, A. J. C. 1847. Prodrom einer Monographieder bohmischen Trilobiten. 176 pp. J. G. Calve, Prague.
- ^ a b c d e f NAIMARK, E.B. (2012). "Hundred species of the Genus Peronopsis Hawle et Corda, 1847". Paleontological Journal. 46 (9): 945–1057. Bibcode:2012PalJ...46..945N. doi:10.1134/S0031030112090018. S2CID 85130465.
- ^ BARRANDE, J. 1846. Notice pre Âliminaire sur le syste Áme silurien et les trilobites de Bohême. Leipzig, 97 pp.
- ^ HARKNESS, R. & HICKS, H. 1871. On the ancient rocks of the St David's Promontory, South Wales, and their fossil contents: with descriptions of the new species, by H. Hicks, Esq. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London, 27, 384–404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/ GSL.JGS.1871.027.01-02.46.
- ^ LAKE, P. 1906–1946. A Monograph of the British Cambrian Trilobites. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London, (1) 1906, 1–28, pls, 1, 2.
- ^ BEYRICH E. (1845). Über einige böhmische Trilobiten. G. Reimer, Berlin, 47 pp.
- ^ PEK, I. & VANĚK, J. 1971. Revision of the genera Peronopsis Hawle et Corda, 1847 and Diplorrhina Hawle et Corda, 1847 Trilobita from the Middle Cambrian of Bohemia. Věstnik Ústredniho ústavu geologického, 46, 269–276.
- ^ REES, A. J., THOMAS, A. T., LEWIS, M., HUGHES, H. E. & TURNER, P. 2014. The Cambrian of SW Wales: Towards a United Avalonian Stratigraphy. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 42, 1–30.