The effaced styginid trilobite Thomastus from the Silurian of Victoria, Australia

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The effaced styginid trilobite Thomastus from the Silurian of Victoria, Australia

  • Volume / Part: 41 / 5
  • Publication Date: October 1998
  • Page(s): 913 - 928
  • Authored By: Andrew Sandford and David J. Holloway

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Thomastus is a blind effaced styginid trilobite that occurs in strata of Wenlock age in Victoria, Australia. The genus is most closely related to Bumastella and Illaenoides, with which it shares characters such as a highly convex cephalon, the absence of the omphalus and the anterolateral internal pit, a weakly forwardly converging facial suture, a transverse furrow in front of the articulating flange on the posterior fixigenal margin, and a pygidium with a deep holcos. Of the four species previously assigned to Thomastus, T. collusor and T. vicarius are considered to be synonyms of the type species T. thomastus. One new species, T. aops, is described.

Palaeontology - Volume 41 Part 5 Pages 913-928



Palaeontology - Volume 41 Part 5 Pages 913-928

Citations

SANDFORD, A., HOLLOWAY, D. J. 1998. The effaced styginid trilobite Thomastus from the Silurian of Victoria, Australia. Palaeontology, 41, 5, 913–928.