A Middle Devonian trilobite assemblage from Venezuela

Title Variants

Alternative: Middle-Devonian trilobites

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3292

By

Carvalho, Maria da Gloria Pires de

Moody, John M.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2000

Notes

Title from caption.

"March 16, 2000."

Summary also in Spanish.

[English abstract]. Three new species of trilobites are described from the upper level of the Caño del Oeste Formation (Middle Devonian) of Venezuela. These taxa include a phacopinine, Viaphacops venezuelensis, n. sp., and two asteropyginines, Rhenops odremani, n. sp., and Greenops perijaensis, n. sp. The biogeographic implications of these records are discussed. Viaphacops is somewhat cosmopolitan in its distribution. The presence of Rhenops in Venezuela represents a profound range extension beyond the Rhenish-Bohemia region of the Old World Realm. The Venezuelan occurrence of Greenops represents a southerly range extension within the Eastern Americas Realm, reinforcing faunal similarities previously recognized among Devonian brachiopods and trilobites of Venezuela and North America.

Subjects

Caño Colorado , Devonian , Greenops perijaensis , Paleontology , Rhenops odremani , Trilobites , Venezuela , Viaphacops venezuelensis

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3292 2000

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2000)292<0001:AMDTAF>2.0.CO;2
OCLC: 43753908