Exceptionally well-preserved Orsten-type phosphatocopid crustaceans from the Cambrian of Poland
Author
Olempska, Ewa
Author
Maas, Andreas
Author
Waloszek, Dieter
Author
Eriksson, Mats E.
text
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
2019
2019-02-07
64
1
19
39
http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00553.2018
journal article
10.4202/app.00553.2018
1732-2421
10626598
Genus
Cyclotron
Rushton, 1969
Type
species
:
Polyphyma lapworthi
Groom, 1902
; Malvern Hills,
England
; Cambrian, Furonian,
Olenus
Biozone
(
Groom 1902
).
Remarks
.—Phosphatocopid taxonomy was for a long time based on external shield features, such as the occurrence and location of lobes and spines, and the general outline of the shield (e.g.,
Maas et al. 2003
). Although minute details also of the ventral appendage morphology have been described (
Müller 1979
,
1982
;
Maas et al. 2003
;
Maas and Waloszek 2005
; Zhang et al. 2010), such features remain unknown for most species.