Phacopida

Comura bultyncki

Order Phacopida / Suborder Phacopina / Superfamily Acastoidea / Family Acastidae / Subfamily Asteropyginae

Eifelian (Middle Devonian)Morocco
Comura bultyncki — photo 1
Photo 1 · Front of the cephalon with a short shovel-shaped protuberance; glabella with short vertical spinules and three pairs of glabellar furrows; occipital spine stout, curved backward; palpebral lobes with vertical backward-curved spinules; proparian facial sutures; librigenae narrow; fixigenae with stout genal spines and a pair of small spinules on the posterior border. Thorax of 11 segments; long axial spines from segment 2 onward; pleurae with vertical spinules and long pleural spines. Pygidium large; 10 axial rings with axial spines; anterior four pairs of pleural segments with vertical spinules; 11 long marginal spines. Holotype (Morocco; Morzadec 2001) Complete dorsal exoskeleton Complete dorsal exoskeleton (Morocco; (Morocco; Ting Richu) Pengcheng Jianke)
Comura bultyncki — photo 2
Photo 2 · Front of the cephalon with a short shovel-shaped protuberance; glabella with short vertical spinules and three pairs of glabellar furrows; occipital spine stout, curved backward; palpebral lobes with vertical backward-curved spinules; proparian facial sutures; librigenae narrow; fixigenae with stout genal spines and a pair of small spinules on the posterior border. Thorax of 11 segments; long axial spines from segment 2 onward; pleurae with vertical spinules and long pleural spines. Pygidium large; 10 axial rings with axial spines; anterior four pairs of pleural segments with vertical spinules; 11 long marginal spines. Holotype (Morocco; Morzadec 2001) Complete dorsal exoskeleton Complete dorsal exoskeleton (Morocco; (Morocco; Ting Richu) Pengcheng Jianke)
Comura bultyncki — photo 3
Photo 3 · Front of the cephalon with a short shovel-shaped protuberance; glabella with short vertical spinules and three pairs of glabellar furrows; occipital spine stout, curved backward; palpebral lobes with vertical backward-curved spinules; proparian facial sutures; librigenae narrow; fixigenae with stout genal spines and a pair of small spinules on the posterior border. Thorax of 11 segments; long axial spines from segment 2 onward; pleurae with vertical spinules and long pleural spines. Pygidium large; 10 axial rings with axial spines; anterior four pairs of pleural segments with vertical spinules; 11 long marginal spines. Holotype (Morocco; Morzadec 2001) Complete dorsal exoskeleton Complete dorsal exoskeleton (Morocco; (Morocco; Ting Richu) Pengcheng Jianke)
Comura bultyncki — photo 4
Photo 4 · Front of the cephalon with a short shovel-shaped protuberance; glabella with short vertical spinules and three pairs of glabellar furrows; occipital spine stout, curved backward; palpebral lobes with vertical backward-curved spinules; proparian facial sutures; librigenae narrow; fixigenae with stout genal spines and a pair of small spinules on the posterior border. Thorax of 11 segments; long axial spines from segment 2 onward; pleurae with vertical spinules and long pleural spines. Pygidium large; 10 axial rings with axial spines; anterior four pairs of pleural segments with vertical spinules; 11 long marginal spines. Holotype (Morocco; Morzadec 2001) Complete dorsal exoskeleton Complete dorsal exoskeleton (Morocco; (Morocco; Ting Richu) Pengcheng Jianke)
Comura bultyncki — photo 5
Photo 5 · Front of the cephalon with a short shovel-shaped protuberance; glabella with short vertical spinules and three pairs of glabellar furrows; occipital spine stout, curved backward; palpebral lobes with vertical backward-curved spinules; proparian facial sutures; librigenae narrow; fixigenae with stout genal spines and a pair of small spinules on the posterior border. Thorax of 11 segments; long axial spines from segment 2 onward; pleurae with vertical spinules and long pleural spines. Pygidium large; 10 axial rings with axial spines; anterior four pairs of pleural segments with vertical spinules; 11 long marginal spines. Holotype (Morocco; Morzadec 2001) Complete dorsal exoskeleton Complete dorsal exoskeleton (Morocco; (Morocco; Ting Richu) Pengcheng Jianke)
Comura bultyncki — photo 6
Photo 6 · Front of the cephalon with a short shovel-shaped protuberance; glabella with short vertical spinules and three pairs of glabellar furrows; occipital spine stout, curved backward; palpebral lobes with vertical backward-curved spinules; proparian facial sutures; librigenae narrow; fixigenae with stout genal spines and a pair of small spinules on the posterior border. Thorax of 11 segments; long axial spines from segment 2 onward; pleurae with vertical spinules and long pleural spines. Pygidium large; 10 axial rings with axial spines; anterior four pairs of pleural segments with vertical spinules; 11 long marginal spines. Holotype (Morocco; Morzadec 2001) Complete dorsal exoskeleton Complete dorsal exoskeleton (Morocco; (Morocco; Ting Richu) Pengcheng Jianke)
Classification
Order Phacopida / Suborder Phacopina / Superfamily Acastoidea / Family Acastidae / Subfamily Asteropyginae
Genus
Comura Richter & Richter, 1926
Genus author
Richter R. & Richter E
Genus etymology
None
Species
C. bultyncki Morzadec, 2001
Species author
Morzadec P.
Species etymology
Bultynck, in honour of the Moroccan conodont researcher Pierre Bultynck
Age
Eifelian (Middle Devonian)
Distribution
Morocco