Researches on the Visual Organs of the TrilobitesLindström, Gustaf
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Researches on the Visual Organs of the Trilobites
Lindström, Gustaf
Trilobites
The maculæ are distinguished from all other sorts of maculæ, excepting
those of Megalaspis, in being, as it were, shelved on a sort of
support, formed through the bulging of the hypostomic surface just
below them, one such console for each. Their surface lies consequently
almost rectangularly to the adjoining surface of the hypostoma. They
are white and smooth.
=Niobe frontalis= ANG.
Pl. V figs. 19-21.
The pocketlike consoles are shorter and broader than in N. læviceps
and the maculæ also larger and of an elliptic shape. In a horizontal
section near the surface the macula has a speckled appearance of
black dots, indicating an undeveloped prismatic structure, much more
primitive than in the Asaphidæ.
=Niobe læviceps= ANG.
Pl. V figs. 22-26.
It differs from the preceding through longer consoles below the maculæ,
which are oval and in a horizontal section exhibit the same spongious
structure, pl. V fig. 25. The cephalic eyes consist of polyedric
prisms, which through deterioration show a central cylindrical core
surrounded by darkish matter like Asaphus. The passage from solid,
homogenous prisms to changed ones is most evident in the figure 22.
=Ogygia= BRONGN.
Figures of the maculæ are found in
_O. Buchi_ SALTER, Mem. Geol. Surv., Dec. II pl. VI fig. 3 p. 2, where
it is stated that »there are two transverse furrows near the apex, with
compressed tubercles between them» There are two narrow crescentic
maculæ and between them a little lower a longer, crescentic ridge,
which may be the ridge that in other species connects the maculæ.
Moreover, the shape of the hypostoma is not concordant with that of the
other species. In Monogr. Brit Trilob. pl. 15 figs. 2, 3 there is only
a reproduction of the former figure.
_O. corndensis_ MURCH. SALTER in Monogr. pl. 16 fig. 10 interior side
of the hypostoma with two lateral maculæ. In the description two pairs
of furrows the uppermost is the maculæ. H. WYATT-EDGELL »On the Genera
of Trilobites Asaphus and Ogygia and the Subgenus Ptychopyge» in
Geol. Magaz. 1867, p. 14, 15 fig. 2 probably a cast with two oblique
impressions of maculæ.
_O. dilatata_ (Asaphus) SARS var. Sarsi ANG. SARS in Isis 1835 p. 342,
pl. IX fig. 11. The figure has two small maculæ near the posterior
margin and the author says »mit einer starken Vertiefung oder
Einschnitt an jeder Seite des Endes». ANGELIN pl. XLII fig. 1 _b_.
BRÖGGER'S fig. 38 pl. 3, in II, collies near to the specimen, which is
described below, also belonging to Dr. G. HOLM.
=O. dilatata= var. =Sarsi= ANG.
Pl. V figs. 27, 28.
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