Researches on the Visual Organs of the TrilobitesLindström, Gustaf
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Researches on the Visual Organs of the Trilobites
Lindström, Gustaf
Trilobites
Pl. VI fig. 11.
The hypostoma somewhat reminds of that of Calymmene, has projecting
angles and a prominent knob below the straight anterior border. The two
oblique and oblong macula are tubercular and placed near the lateral
borders. This hypostoma is upon the whole much related to that of
Phillipsia and Proetus.
=Phillipsia= PORTLOCK.
DE KONINCK figured a hypostoma of Phillipsia in his »Description des
Animaux Foss. de Belgique» as Cyclus Brongniartianus pl. LII fig. J
and NOVÁK in III figs. 6, 7 copied it and corrected the error. It is
provided with two globular maculæ united by a curved ridge.
_Phillipsia Eichwaldi_ WOODW. NOVÁK III fig. 5 a hypostoma with
globular maculæ. We have been able to examine three different, unnamed
or undeterminated species, which we distinguish by numbering them.
_Phill. No. 1_ from the Keokuk group of Crawfordsville, N. America. The
hypostoma is broader than in the other species. The nearly horizontal
elongated maculæ placed near the median line, close to the lateral
margins.
_Phill. No. 2_ (pl. VI, figs. 15-18) probably from the Carboniferous
formation of Belgium is of a lengthened form. The elliptic maculæ in
the groove, below the central elevation. They are smooth and surrounded
by a flat border.
The cephalic eyes are much destroyed, but seem to have consisted of
somewhat semi-prismatic lenses or prisms of the same type as Dysplanus.
_Phillipsia No. 3_ (pl. VI figs. 12-14) from the Carboniferous strata
of Beeren Eiland communicated by Hr J. G. ANDERSSON. It comes near the
preceding, is lengthened, but has broader and shorter anterior wings
and the inferior surface just above the posterior border peculiarly
pitted. The macula lying above this pitted field are ovate. The lenses
of the cephalic eye are hemispheric on the surface.
=Platymetopus= ANGELIN.
=Pl. planifrons= ANGELIN.
Pl. IV figs. 50, 51.
This genus may well be kept distinguished from Lichas in consequence
of its peculiar hypostoma and its still more peculiar maculæ, not to
remind of the other deviating features. The maculæ lie at the end of
narrow, sigmoid grooves of their own above the long transverse groove,
separating the posterior border from the anterior elevated moiety.
They are elongated, curved and entirely covered with a great number of
irregular lenticles, translucent through the thin covering membrane.
=Pliomera= ANG.
_Pliomera Törnquisti_ HOLM in Trilobit. Dalecarliens p. 5 fig. 2.
While Pl. Fischeri and Pl. actinura not have any hypostomic maculæ,
this species, which Dr. HOLM with some doubt joins in the same genus,
has a hypostoma, which as to its general shape resembles that of both
the mentioned species, evenly rounded at its posterior border, with
a shallow groove encircling the central field. A little below the
horizontal diameter of this the maculæ stretch obliquely inwards and
downwards. They rest on a little elevation and are elongate, anteriorly
acuminated. The figure on HOLM'S plate does not show the maculæ.
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