Researches on the Visual Organs of the TrilobitesLindström, Gustaf
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Researches on the Visual Organs of the Trilobites
Lindström, Gustaf
Trilobites
almost like a Homalonotus, and the hypostoma of which has been partly
delineated in this memoir, seems to be the real one. They differ both
in the shape of the hypostoma as well as in other respects.
=Barrandia= MAC COY.
According to SALTER Monogr. pl. 19 fig. 9 his B. Portlocki, of which
there is a fragmentary and broken hypostoma, shows feeble traces of
oblique macula, nearly in the fashion of Asaphus. In the description at
page 139 is told about »the usual pair of tubercles».
=Bronteus= GOLDFUSS.
BARRANDE delineates the maculæ on the hypostoma of
_B. palifer_, Tab. 45 fig. 17,
_B. planus_, Tab. 48 fig. 7, and
in the supplementar volume of
_B. rhinoceros_, Tab. 9 f. 16,
_B. furcifer_, Tab. 11 fig. 16, but there is not the slightest
indication of granulation on any of them, nor is there in the
descriptions, generic or specific, the least mention made of the
tubercular maculæ. It is also remarkable that in the works of ANGELIN
and NOVÁK where several hypostomas belonging to species of this genus
are delineated, not a single one shows these tubercles. We shall now
continue the descriptions of the Swedish Brontei, already begun with
Br. polyactin in the introductory part of this memoir.
=Bronteus irradians= LINDSTR.
Pl. II figs. 4-5.
has a hypostoma that much resembles that of Br. polyactin. In its
general shape it is similar and the two concentric grooves with the two
maculæ placed in the same way, just below the superior groove. These
maculæ are much larger than in Br. polyactin, nearly thrice their size.
They are also more ovate or rather like a bean, the smooth surface
is larger and the granulated spot restricted to a more narrow space
forming an oblique patch. The granules or lenses are also individually
larger than in the allied species, double their size or 0,06
millimeters. We have not succeeded in making sections of the cephalic
eye nor of the maculæ.
=Br. platyactin= ANGELIN.
Pl. II f. 14-19.
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