Researches on the Visual Organs of the Trilobites — John Shaqi
Researches on the Visual Organs of the TrilobitesLindström, Gustaf
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Researches on the Visual Organs of the Trilobites
Lindström, Gustaf
Trilobites
_A. (Isotelus) canalis_ J. HALL, Pal. N. Y. I, pl. 4 bis, f. 18-19.
Though this and a following species probably on account of the
deviating conformation of their body, belong to a different genus
or subgenus, I mention them along with the Asaphi, as there is the
greatest similarity in their hypostoma. Fragment of an interior cast;
still more strange is the fragment showing part of the interior surface
and the duplicature.
_A. expansus_ L. BR. I pl. VII f. 3, BR. II pl. I f. 2, 2 c. In the two
first figures there are no tubercles nor maculæ marked, in the last
figure there are distinct tubercles.
_A. fallax_ A. pl. XXVIII f. 3, c. BR. II pl. I, f. 3, both nearly
congruent.
A. (Isotelus) gigas J. HALL, Pal. N. Y. 1, pl. 60, f. 7 g, pl. 66 f.
5, the inside of an entire, uncommonly large hypostoma gives a general
good view with the macula; which are large and evident. He mentions the
maculæ as »two circular spots». »These probably indicate the points for
the attachment of muscles and tendons upon the inside,» he adds.
_A. ingens_ BARR. NOVÁK II, pl. I, f. 7, a good figure showing two
semiglobular maculæ. BARRANDE'S figures pl. 33, f. 7, 8 are not
distinct.
_A. ludibundus_ TQT. BR. II, pl. 1, f. 7. Two semilunar sulci on the
cast of the interior surface, being only the posterior borders of the
maculæ which are a little more raised and distinct than the rest.
_A. nobilis_ BARR. pl. 32, f. 6. Indistinct traces of maculæ. In the
figure 6, pl. 31 representing the hypostoma of a young specimen, there
are no tubercles at all. If the figures were to be relied upon, it
might be assumed, that the tubercles appear at a more mature age.
_A. Powisii_ SALTER, pl. 23, f. 6. Two semilunar, narrow tubercular
maculæ, their interior apices converging towards the anterior border of
the hypostoma.
_A. raniceps_ A., pl. XXVIII, f. 2 c., BR. II, pl. 1, f. 4. A good
figure.
_A. raniceps_ var. _maxima_ BR. II, pl. 1, f. 6. Semilunar impressions
on a cast and thus far incomplete.
_A. striatus_ BOECK. To this belongs probably A. expansus M. SARS
»Ueber einige neue oder unvollständig bekannte Trilobiten» in Isis
1835 p. 333, and especially p. 340 and the following (Bemerkungen über
die untere Seite von einigen Trilobiten). SARS there gives a very
good description of the exterior side, where he also mentions the two
maculæ, pl. IX, f. 9 a, b. (»2 kleine Knoten»), BR. I, pl. VIII, f. 4
a, and BR. II, pl. I, f. 9. These latter figures differ in so far, that
the former has the maculæ excavated or rather tubular below, in the
latter again they are regular.
_A. trinucleorum_ BR. II, pl. I, f. 16 a large specimen with linear
maculæ arranged rectangularly in respect to the longitudinal axis of
the hypostoma and both on the same level.
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