The Appendages, Anatomy, and Relationships of TrilobitesRaymond, Percy E. (Percy Edward)
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The Appendages, Anatomy, and Relationships of Trilobites
Raymond, Percy E. (Percy Edward)
Trilobites
Length of coxopodite of seventh left thoracic appendage 16 mm.,
diameter about 3.5 mm.; length of basipodite of the endopodite of the
same appendage 6 mm.; diameter about 2 mm.; length of ischiopodite 5
mm.; length of meropodite 4.5 mm.; length of carpopodite 4.5 mm.;
length of propodite 3 mm.; length of dactylopodite 2.75 mm.; total
length of endopodite 25.75 mm.
Length of coxopodite of fourth left thoracic appendage 20 mm.,
diameter 4 mm.; length of five proximal joints of the endopodite 25
mm.; diameter of basipodite about 2 mm.
RESTORATION OF ISOTELUS.
(Text fig. 9.)
The exopodites have been omitted from this restoration since nothing
is known of their actual form. The chief reason for the figure is to
contrast the greatly developed coxopodites of the posterior part of
the cephalon and thorax with those of other trilobites. The antennules
and first two pairs of biramous appendages of the cephalon are more or
less hypothetical, and less is known of the appendages of the pygidium
than is shown here. The restoration is based somewhat upon Walcott's
figure in Science. The outline is that of a specimen of _Isotelus
maximus_ from Toronto, Ontario.
=Isotelus gigas= Dekay.
Illustrated: Woodward, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., London, vol. 26,
1870, text fig. 1; Geol. Mag., dec. 3, vol. 1. 1884, p. 78, text
fig. Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat, Zoologie, ser. 6, vol. 12, 1881,
pl. 12, fig. 46. Walcott, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard Coll.,
vol. 8, 1881, pl. 2, fig. 9; Geol. Mag., dec. 4, vol. 1, 1894, pl.
8, fig. 9; Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 9, 1894, pl. 1, fig.
9.
The specimen in the British Museum which Woodward called _Asaphus
platycephalus_, is, in all probability, an _Isotelus gigas_. Woodward
says of it:
I was at once attracted by a specimen of _Asaphus_, from the Black
Trenton Limestone (Lower Silurian), which has been much eroded on
its upper surface, leaving the hypostoma and what appear to be
the appendages belonging to the first, second, and third somites,
exposed to view, united along the median line by a longitudinal
ridge. The pseudo-appendages, however, have no evidence of any
articulations. But what appears to me to be of the highest
importance, as a piece of additional information afforded by
the Museum specimen, is the discovery of what I believe to be
the _jointed palpus_ of one of the maxillæ, which has left its
impression upon the side of the hypostoma--just, in fact, in that
position which it must have occupied in life, judging by other
Crustaceans which are furnished with an hypostoma, as _Apus_,
_Serolis_, etc.
The palpus is 9 lines in length, the basal joint measures 3 lines,
and is 2 lines broad, and somewhat triangular in form.
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