The Appendages, Anatomy, and Relationships of Trilobites — John Shaqi
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
Walcott figured one individual of this species showing long slender
antennules projecting in front of the cephalon. It is of especial
interest because one of the antennules shows almost exactly the same
sigmoid curvature which is so characteristic of the related
_Triarthrus_. The individual segments are not visible.
_Measurements:_ The specimen is 23 mm. long and the direct distance
from the front of the head to the anterior end of the more perfect
antennule is 9.5 mm. Measured along the curvature, the same antennule
is about 11 mm. long.
_Horizon and locality:_ Same as the preceding.
The Appendages of Kootenia.
=Kootenia dawsoni= Walcott.
Illustrated: Walcott, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 67, 1918, pl. 14,
figs. 2, 3.
One specimen figured by Doctor Walcott shows the distal ends of some
of the exopodites and endopodites of the right side. He compares the
exopodites with those of Neolenus, stating that the shaft consists
of two segments, the proximal section being long and flat, fringed
with long setæ, while the distal segment has short fine setæ. The
endopodite best shown is very slender, and the segments are of uniform
width and only slightly longer than wide.
Measurements (from Walcott's figures): Length of specimen, about 41
mm. Length of five distal segments of an endopodite, 7.5 mm. Since
the pleural lobe is only 7 mm. wide, the endopodites, and probably
the exopodites also, must have projected a few millimeters beyond the
dorsal test when extended straight out laterally.
Formation and locality: Burgess shale, Middle Cambrian, on the west
slope of the ridge between Mount Field and Wapta Peak, above Field,
British Columbia.
The Appendages of Calymene and Ceraurus.
HISTORICAL.
All of the work on these species has been done by Doctor Walcott, who
summarized his results in 1881.
In the first of his papers (1875, p. 159), Walcott did not describe
any appendages but paved the way for further work by a detailed and
accurate description of the ventral surface of the dorsal shell of
Ceraurus. He demonstrated the presence in this species of strongly
buttressed processes which extend directly downward from the test just
within the line of the dorsal furrows. One pair of these is seen
beneath each pair of the glabellar furrows, each segment of the thorax
has a pair, and there are four pairs on the pygidium. He pointed out
also that these projections were but poorly developed on that part of
the glabella which is covered by the hypostoma. He called them axial
processes, the only name which appears to have been suggested thus
far.
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