Early Devonian fishes from coastal De Long Strait, central Chukotka, Arctic Russia
Author
Mark-Kurik, Elga
Author
Blieck, Alain
Author
Burrow, Carole J.
Author
Turner, Susan
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Geodiversitas
2013
2013-09-27
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/g2013n3a3
journal article
10.5252/g2013n3a3
1638-9395
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HETEROSTRACI
? indet.
(
Fig. 6I
)
MATERIAL. — Specimen
GIT
580-8: isolated tessera or platelet.
LOCALITY AND STRATIGRAPHIC HORIZON. — Same as specimens
GIT
n°580-1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7: locality (sample) 73, Tonnel’nyj Brook, south of De Long Strait,
Chukotka
; Lower Member (1) of Enmakaj Formation, Lochkovian.
DESCRIPTION ħis specimen is an isolated square-shaped element (either a tessera or platelet), partially broken, and with an altered surface. It bears a single, probably central, star-shaped tubercle (
Fig. 6I
). Because it is larger (
c.
3.2 mm long for its preserved part) than all other tesserae that have been prepared from sample 73 of the Coast section, we suggest that it might correspond to a different taxon. Furthermore, with such a small sample (a single specimen), no thin section has been made, and thus its histology is not confirmed as being of a heterostracan.