Vachonisia
| Vachonisia Temporal range: | |
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| Ventral view of Vachonisia rogeri (reconstruction) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | †Marrellomorpha |
| Order: | †Acercostraca |
| Family: | †Vachonisiidae |
| Genus: | † Lehmann, 1956 |
| Species: | †V. rogeri |
| Binomial name | |
| †Vachonisia rogeri (Lehmann, 1955) | |
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Vachonisia is a Devonian marrellomorph known from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate.[1] It grows in a similar fashion to the other Hunsruck marrellomorph, Mimetaster,[2] and is closely related to the Silurian Xylokorys.[3] It is known from 20 specimens; its whole body is covered by a shield-like carapace.[3]
References
- ^ Stürmer, W; Bergström, J (1976). "The arthropods Mimetaster and Vachonisia from the Devonian Hunsrück Shale". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 50 (1): 78–111. Bibcode:1976PalZ...50...78W. doi:10.1007/bf03001974.
- ^ Kühl, G.; Rust, J. (2010). "Re-investigation of Mimetaster hexagonalis: a marrellomorph arthropod from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 84 (3): 397–411. Bibcode:2010PalZ...84..397K. doi:10.1007/s12542-009-0049-x.
- ^ a b Kühl, Gabriele; Bergström, Jan; Rust, Jes (2008). "Morphology, Paleobiology and Phylogenetic Position of Vachonisia rogeri (Arthropoda) from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany)". Palaeontographica Abteilung A. 286 (4–6): 123–157. Bibcode:2008PalAA.286..123K. doi:10.1127/pala/286/2008/123.