Bulbaspis
| Bulbaspis Temporal range:
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| B. mirabilis | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | †Artiopoda |
| Class: | †Trilobita |
| Order: | †Asaphida |
| Family: | †Raphiophoridae |
| Genus: | †Bulbaspis Chugaeva, 1956 |
| Type species | |
| Ampyx bulbifer Weber, 1932
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| Species groups[1] | |
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Bulbaspis ("bulb shield") is a late Ordovician genus of asaphid trilobites of the family Raphiophoridae found primarily in upper Ordovician-aged deepwater marine strata of Kazakhstan, China, and possibly Tasmania. Species of Bulbaspis are similar to other raphiophorids such as Ampyx and Raphiophorus, save that the long spine that emanates from the glabella of the latter two genera has been modified into a knob-like or bulb-like structure in Bulbaspis that developed incrementally in the animal's growth.[1] The function of the bulb is currently unknown: one hypothesis suggests sexual selection may have had a role in its evolution in the genus.[2]
Species
[edit | edit source]- ovulum group
- B. lageniformis Zhou et al. 1982
- B. ovulum Weber 1948
- B. ordosensis Lu et al. 1976
- bulbifer group
- B. brevis Zhou & Zhou, 2006
- B. bulbifer (Weber, 1932)
- B. korlaensis Zhang, 1981
- B. mirabilis Chugaeva, 1958
- B. sphaerornatus Chugaeva, 1958
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Zhiqiang, Zhou, and Zhou Zhiyi. "Late Ordovician trilobites from the Zhusilenghaierhan area, Ejin Banner, western Inner Mongolia, China."MEMOIR-ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIAN PALAEONTOLOGISTS 32 (2006): 383. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Knell, Robert J., and Richard A. Fortey. "Trilobite spines and beetle horns: sexual selection in the Palaeozoic?." Biology letters 1.2 (2005): 196-199. [1]
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