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
There appear to be about 7 articulations in the palpus itself,
above the basal joint, marked by swellings upon its tubular stem,
which is 1 line in diameter.
[Illustration: Fig. 9.--A restored composite of _Isotelus maximus_ and
_I. latus_. The exopodites are left out because entirely unknown.
Drawn by Doctor Elvira Wood. Natural size.]
Desiring to know more of this individual, I wrote to Doctor Bather
and was surprised to learn that the specimen which was the basis of
Woodward's observations is so badly preserved as to be of no real
value. With his permission, I append a note made by Doctor Bather
some years ago when selecting fossils to be placed on exhibition:
_Asaphus gigas_ Dekay. Ordovician, Trenton Limestone. N. America,
Canada. Descr. H. Woodward, 1870, Q. J. G. S., XXVI, pp. 486-488,
text fig. 1, as _Asaphus platycephalus_. Coll. and presd. J. J.
Bigsby, 1851. Regd. I 14431.
This specimen is in the Brit. Mus. Geol. Dept. I 14431. The
supposed hypostome is exceedingly doubtful; it lies dorsad of the
crushed glabellar skeleton. The "appendage" is merely the edge of
a part in the head-shield; the maxilla is some calcite filling,
between two such laminæ.
13 Sept. 1911. (Signed) F. A. BATHER.
Walcott figured a slice of _Isotelus gigas_ from Trenton Falls, New
York, which shows a few fragments of appendages, but is of particular
importance because it shows the presence of well developed appendifers
beneath the axial lobe.
=Isotelus arenicola= Raymond.
Illustrated: Ottawa Nat, vol. 24, 1910, p. 129, pl. 2, fig. 5.
The following quotations from my paper are inserted here to complete
the record of appendage-bearing specimens:
A rather remarkable specimen of this species was found by W. C.
King, Esq., on the shore of Lake Deschenes at Britannia [near
Ottawa, Ontario]. This specimen is an impression of the lower
surface of the trilobite, and shows a longitudinal ridge
corresponding to the central furrow along the axis of the ventral
side of the animal, ten pairs of transverse furrows, and the
impression of the hypostoma. The doublure of the pygidium has
also left a wide smooth impression, but in the cephalic region
the hypostoma is the only portion of which there are any traces
remaining. The specimen was found on a waterworn surface of the
beach, partially covered by shingle....
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