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
_Triarthrus becki_ is usually represented as having four pairs of
glabellar furrows, but the two pairs at the front are exceedingly
faint and the first of them is hardly ever visible, though that it
does exist is proved by a number of authentic specimens. The neck
furrow is narrow and sharply impressed, continuing across the glabella
with a slightly backward curvature. In front of it are two pairs of
linear, deeply impressed furrows which in their inward and backward
sweep are bowed slightly forward, the ends of the corresponding
furrows on opposite sides nearly meeting along the crest of the
glabella. In front of these, near the median line, is a pair of slight
indentations, having the appearance and position of the inner ends of
a pair of furrows similar to those situated just behind them.
In front of and just outside this pair are the exceedingly faint
impressions of the anterior pair of furrows, these, as said above,
being but seldom seen. They are short, slightly indented linear
furrows which have their axes perpendicular to the axis of the
cephalon, and do not connect with each other or with the dorsal
furrows. The latter are narrow, sharply impressed, and merge into a
circumglabellar furrow at the front. In front of the circumglabellar
furrow is a very narrow rounded ridge, but the anterior end of the
glabella is very close to the margin of the cephalon.
Specimen No. 214, which was cleaned from the dorsal side, shows the
posterior tip of the hypostoma, apparently in its natural position,
3.5 mm. back from the anterior margin. The entire length of the
cephalon is 6 mm., so that the hypostoma reaches back slightly over
one half the length (0.583). The greater part of it has been cleaned
off, and one sees the proximal portions of the antennules, which are
apparently attached just at the sides of the hypostoma, 2.5 mm. apart
and 2.25 mm. back from the anterior edge of the cephalon. This
position is distinctly within the outline of the glabella and
corresponds approximately to the location of the second pair of
glabellar furrows. Specimens 214, 215, 216, 217, and 219 all seem to
show the same location for the bases of the antennules. Specimen 220
is the one in which the basal shafts are best preserved and the points
of attachment seem to be further apart in it than in any of the
others. This specimen is 38 mm. long, and the bases of the antennules
are 5.5 mm. apart and 4 mm. behind the anterior margin. As the
specimen is cleaned from the ventral side, the dorsal furrows do not
show distinctly, but another specimen of about the same size (No. 228,
38.5 mm. long) has the dorsal furrows 8 mm. apart 4 mm. back of the
anterior margin.
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