Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-8gtf8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-22T17:30:43.603Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Andinacaste (Trilobita) from the earliest Devonian of Argentina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Gregory D. Edgecombe ,
Beatriz G. Waisfeld  and
Norberto E. Vaccarp
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E3, Canada
Beatriz G. Waisfeld
Affiliation:
Cátedra de Estratigrafia y Geología Histórica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Avenida Vélez Sársfield 299, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
Norberto E. Vaccarp
Affiliation:
Cátedra de Estratigrafia y Geología Histórica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Avenida Vélez Sársfield 299, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The acastomorph calmoniid trilobite Andinacaste Eldredge and Braniša, 1980, has been known from the basal Devonian (Lower Lochkovian) of Bolivia. Andinacaste espejensis n. sp., described from probable Lower Lochkovian strata of the Los Espejos Formation in the Precordillera of San Juan Province, is the first Argentine record of this genus. Accordingly, Andinacaste is identified as a typical component of basal Devonian trilobite assemblages over a broad geographic range in Andean South America.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 68 , Issue 4 , July 1994 , pp. 837 - 841
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Benedetto, J. L., Racheboeuf, P. R., Herrera, Z., Brussa, E. D., and Toro, B. A. 1992. Brachiopodes et biostratigraphie de la Formation de Los Espejos, Siluro-Dévonien de la Précordillère (NW Argentine). Geobios, 25:599–637.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Delo, D. M. 1935. A revision of the phacopid trilobites. Journal of Paleontology, 9:402–120.Google Scholar
Edgecombe, G. D. 1993. Silurian acastacean trilobites of the Americas. Journal of Paleontology, 67:535–548.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eldredge, N., and Braniša, L. 1980. Calmoniid trilobites of the Lower Devonian Scaphiocoelia Zone of Bolivia, with remarks on related species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 165:181–290.Google Scholar
Green, J. 1832. A monograph of the trilobites of North America: with coloured models of the species. J. Brano, Philadelphia, 94 p.Google Scholar
Haas, W. 1968. Trilobiten aus dem Silur und Devon von Bithynien (NW-Turkei). Palaeontographica A, 130:60–207.Google Scholar
Hollard, H. 1963. Les Acastella et quelques autres Dalmanitacea du Maroc présaharien. Leur distribution verticale et ses conséquences par l'étude de la limite Silurien-Dévonien. Notes et Mémoires du Service Géologique du Maroc, 176:1–66.Google Scholar
Lieberman, B. S., Edgecombe, G. D., and Eldredge, N. 1991. Systematics and biogeography of the “Malvinella group,” Calmoniidae (Trilobita, Devonian). Journal of Paleontology, 65:824–843.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ramsköld, L., and Edgecombe, G. D. 1993. Silurian acastid trilobites from Gotland and Scania, Sweden. Palaöntologische Zeitschrift, 67:261–285.Google Scholar
Rehfeld, U., and Mehl, J. 1989. Andinodesma radicostata n. gen. n. sp., a grammysiid taxon from the Lower Devonian Catavi Formation (Bolivia) and its autecological and phylogenetic implications. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 63:263–279.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sánchez, T. M., Waisfeld, B. G., and Benedetto, J. L. 1991. Lithofacies, taphonomy and brachiopod assemblages in the Silurian of western Argentina: a review of Malvinokaffric Realm communities. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 4:307–329.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shergold, J. H. 1968. On the occurrence of the trilobite genera Acaste and Acastella in Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 81:19–30.Google Scholar
Šnajdr, M. 1987. Reussiana, new name replacing Reussia Maksimova, 1972 (Trilobita). Věstnik Ústředniho ústavu geologickeho, 62:104.Google Scholar
Struve, W. 1959. Calmoniidae, p. 483–487. In Moore, R. C. (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part O, Arthropoda 1. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.Google Scholar
Swartz, F. M. 1925. The Devonian fauna of Bolivia. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Geology, 6:29–68.Google Scholar
Thomas, I. 1905. Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der devonischen Fauna Argentiniens. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaf, 42:233–290.Google Scholar
Tomczykowa, E. 1991. Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian trilobites of Poland. Prace Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego, 134.Google Scholar
Waisfeld, B. G., Toro, B. A., and Brussa, E. D. 1988. Trilobites Silúricos de la Formación Los Espejos, Sector Occidental del Cerro del Fuerte, Precordillera de San Juan, Argentina. Ameghiniana, 25:305–320.Google Scholar