Knowledge Of The Carboniferous And Permian Actinopterygian Fishes Of The Bohemian Massif - 100 Years After Antonín Frič
Author
Štamberg, Stanislav
Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové, EliŠČino nábřeží 465,500 01 Hradec Králové, the Czech Republic; e-mail: s. stamberg @ muzeumhk. cz
text
Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae Series B
2013
2013-12-31
69
3 - 4
159
182
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.13191121
2533-4069
13191121
Progyrolepis speciosus
(
FRIČ
, 1875)
Text-fig. 3
1875 1891 1895
1991
2006
2008
Gyrolepis speciosus
FR
.
; Frič, p. 77.
Elonichthys speciosus
;
WOODWARD
, p. 501.
Progyrolepis speciosus
(
FRIČ
, 1875
)
; Fritsch, p. 118; fig. 308; pl. 131, figs 1–15; pl. 132, figs 1–7.
Progyrolepis speciosus
(
FRIČ
, 1875
)
; Štamberg, p. 47; figs 12–23; pls. 5–9.
Progyrolepis speciosus
(
FRIČ
, 1876)
; Štamberg, p. 223; fig. 3.
Progyrolepis speciosus
(
FRIČ
, 1876)
; Štamberg and Zajíc, p. 148; fig. 217.
L e c t o t y p e (
Štamberg 1991
): Specimen figured by
Fritsch (1895
, pl. 131, fig. 12) deposited in the National Museum,
Prague
under No. M 1217 (positive) and M 881 (negative).
L o c u s t y p i c u s: Kounov, district Rakovník,
Czech Republic
.
S t r a t u m t y p i c u m: Kounov Member, Stephanian B, Upper Carboniferous, Kladno–Rakovník Basin.
O c c u r r e n c e: Bone fragments and mostly isolated scales occur in the Late Carboniferous sediments of the Central and West Bohemian late Paleozoic basins and the Krkonoše Piedmont Basin.
Štamberg and Zajíc (2008)
enumerate a complete list of the localities with
Progyrolepis speciosus
.
D i a g n o s i s: Maxilla with long and low maxillary plate, the length/height ratio of the maxillary plate is 1.6, the ratio of the length of the maxillary plate to the length of the anterior narrow maxillary part is 0.9. The sculpture on the maxilla is formed by conspicuous tubercles and ridges. The sculpture of these irregularly arranged tubercles and ridges covers the entire lateral surface of the maxillary plate, except for the narrow strip on its anterior border, which is smooth. The surface of the large conical teeth carries numerous vertical grooves with small oval bumps regularly placed among them.
R e m a r k s:
Progyrolepis speciosus
represents a large predatory fish. Despite the absence of a complete specimen, the fragments of the body and the formation of the bones of the skull figured previously by
Fritsch (1895)
provide a good reconstruction of the morphology of the fish.