Two rare taxa from the type area of the Devonian,south-west England |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia;2. South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia;3. School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia |
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Abstract: | The rarity of certain taxa in the type Devonian, south-west England, may be real, but it is probably, in part, an artefact of preservation. In part this is a product of Variscan deformation, but disarticulation of multi-element skeletons into minute plates must also be a contributory factor. Echinoids are rare from these deposits and were hitherto limited to the Upper Devonian. A single radiole (=spine) from the Middle Devonian (Givetian) Lummaton Shell Beds, Torquay Limestone Formation, is referred to echinoid sp. indet. Although stromatoporoids are common in these same beds, true sponges were hitherto unknown. In the same rock specimen, a moderately well preserved siliceous spicule is referred to octactinellid sp. indet. |
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Keywords: | Porifera Echinoidea Givetian Torquay Limestone Formation Lummaton Shell Beds |
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