Late Silurian to earliest Devonian vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Birch Creek II section, Roberts Mountains, Nevada, U. S. A.
Author
Burrow, Carole Jan
Author
Murphy, Michael
Author
Turner, Susan
text
PaleoBios
2023
2023-06-06
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/p940454153
journal article
10.5070/P940454153
0031-0298
10913559
58312615-0833-432E-BF5D-3DFFBF361AAA
LOGANELLIA
FREDHOLM, 1990
Type
species
—
Thelodus scoticus
Traquair, 1898
.
LOGANELLIA
SP.
CF.
L. CUNEATA
(
TABLE 1
; SUPPL. 1,
FIGS. 1
,
4
)
Referred specimens
—One scale from BCII level 27’ (
8.2 m
); two scales from level 430.5’ (
131.2 m
): Roberts Mountains Formation.
Description and comparison
—Elongate teardrop-shaped scales with two sharp crown ridges. The base is oval and extends about two-thirds crown length. There is no anterior basal spur.
This scale resembles those described as
Loganellia cuneata
(
Gross 1947
, pl. 3; 1967, pl. 3) from the Přidolí of Britain, Europe, and
Russia
(
Märss et al. 2007
) but also is similar to the much older
L. sulcata
and
L. prolata
(
Märss et al. 2002
)
from the Lower Silurian of arctic
Canada
. Without more material, the designation can only be tentative.