Asteropygine trilobites from the Late Devonian of the Kerman region,Iran |
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| Authors: | Pierre Morzadec Mohammad Dastanpour Anthony J. Wright |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Laboratoire de Micropaléontologie et Paléontologie marines, Institut de Géologie , Université de Rennes I , Avenue du Général Leclerc, F-35042, Rennes Cedex, France E-mail: Pierre.Morzadec@univ-rennes1.fr;2. Department of Geology , Shahid Bahonar University , Kerman, Iran;3. School of Geosciences , University of Wollongong , Wollongong, N.S.W., 2522, Australia E-mail: tony_wright@uow.edu.au |
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| Abstract: | The discovery of two new Frasnian species of the subfamily Asteropyginae, Bradocryphaeus kermanensis and Radiopyge hamedii, in the Haruz section north of Kerman, east-central Iran, demonstrates for the first time the presence of North Gondwanan trilobites in this region. The two new species provide a link between faunas from Afghanistan to the east and the Alborz Mountains in north Iran. The recognition of R. hamedii confirms the validity of Radiopyge Farsan, hitherto known only from Afghanistan, as well as the presence in some Frasnian Asteropyginae of six pairs of lateral pygidial spines. |
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| Keywords: | Asteropyginae trilobites Late Devonian Iran |
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