A Middle Devonian Trilobite Assemblage from Venezuela
Author
DE CARVALHO, MARIA DA GLORIA PIRES
Author
MOODY, JOHN
text
American Museum Novitates
2000
2000-03-16
3292
1
15
http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2000)292<0001:amdtaf>2.0.co;2
journal article
5849
10.1206/0003-0082(2000)292<0001:amdtaf>2.0.co;2
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0003-0082
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Genus
Rhenops
Richter & Richter, 1943
TYPE SPECIES
:
Cryphaeus anserinus
Richter, 1916
; Lower Devonian, Eifel (
Germany
).
GENERIC DIAGNOSIS: See Struve, 1959: O483.
REMARKS: This genus is known from the Lower Devonian (Emsian) of Europe (
Germany
,
France
, and
Spain
) and Middle Devonian (Eifelian) of Africa (
Morocco
). The presence of
Rhenops
in the Devonian of
Venezuela
was recently noted by Lieberman and Kloc (1997). There are still no records of this genus in North America.