Re-investigation of Mimetaster hexagonalis: A marrellomorph arthropod from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany)

Palaontologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 397-411

  Kühl, Gabriele ^a   Rust, Jes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hunsr ck Slate; Lower Devonian; Marrellomorpha; Mimetaster hexagonalis; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955231723     PISSN: 00310220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12542-009-0049-x     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Abello, P., R. Villaneuva, and J. M. Gili. 1990. Epibiosis in deep sea crab populations as indicator of biological and behavioural characteristics of the host. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 70: 687-696.
2. Alberti, G. 1982. Nowakiidae (Dacryoconarida) aus dem Hunsrückschiefer von Bundenbach (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge). Senckenbergiana Lethaea 63: 451-463.
3. Bartels, C., and G. Brassel. 1990. Fossilien im Hunsrückschiefer. Dokumente des Meereslebens im Devon. Idar-Oberstein: Museum Idar-Oberstein.
4. Bartels, C., D. E. G. Briggs, and G. Brassel. 1998. The fossils of the Hunsrück Slate: Marine life in the Devonian. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Palaeobiology Series 3).
5. Bartels, C., M. Wuttke, and D. E. G. Briggs. 2002a. The Nahecaris Project: Releasing the marine life of the Devonian from the Hunsrück Slate of Bundenbach (SW Germany). Preliminary results and unresolved questions. Metalla 9: 59-72.
6. Bartels, C., M. Poschmann, T. Schindler, and M. Wuttke. 2002b. Palaeontology and paleoecology of the Kaub Formation (Lower Emsian, Lower Devonian) at Bundenbach (Hunsrück, SW Germany). Metalla 9: 105-122.
7. Bergström, J. 1980. Morphology and systematics of early arthropods. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 23: 7-42.
8. Bergström, J., and X. Hou. 2003. Arthropod origins. Bulletin of Geosciences 78: 323-334.
9. Beurlen, K. 1934. Die Pygaspiden, eine neue Crustaceen-(Entomostracen-) Gruppe aus den Mesosaurier führenden Iraty-Schichten Brasiliens. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 16: 122-138.
10. Birenheide, R. 1971. Beobachtungen am "Scheinstern" Mimetaster aus dem Hunsrück-Schiefer. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 52: 77-91.
11. Bitsch, C., and J. Bitsch. 2005. Evolution of eye structure and arthropod phylogeny. In Crustacea and arthropod relationships, ed. Stefan Koenemann, and Ronald A. Jenner, 185-214. New York: Taylor and Francis.
12. Brandt, D. S. 1996. Epizoans on Flexicalymene (Trilobita) and implications for trilobite paleoecology. Journal of Paleontology 70: 442-449.
13. Briggs, D. E. G., and C. Bartels. 2001. New arthropods from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Lower Emsian, Rhenish Massif, western Germany). Palaeontology 44: 275-303.
14. Briggs, D. E. G., and H. B. Whittington. 1985. Modes of life of arthropods from the Burgess Shale, British Columbia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences 76: 149-160.
15. Briggs, D. E. G., R. A. Fortey, and M. A. Wills. 1992. Morphological disparity in the Cambrian. Science 256: 1670-1673.
16. Briggs, D. E. G., D. H. Erwin, and F. J. Collier. 1994. The fossils of the Burgess Shale. Washington and London: Smithonian Institution Press.
17. Cotton, T. J., and S. J. Braddy. 2004. The phylogeny of arachnomorph arthropods and the origin of the Chelicerata. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edingburgh: Earth Sciences 94: 169-193.
18. Garcia-Bellido, D. C., and D. H. Collins. 2006. A new study of Marrella splendens (Arthropoda, Marrellomorpha) from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 43: 721-742.
19. Gürich, G. 1931. Mimetaster hexagonalis, ein neuer Kruster aus dem unterdevonischen Bundenbacher Dachschiefer. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 13: 204-238.
20. Hou, X., and J. Bergström. 1997. Arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China. Fossils and Strata 45: 1-116.
21. Kühl, G., J. Bergström, and J. Rust. 2008. Morphology, paleobiology and phylogenetic position of Vachonisia rogeri (Arthropoda) from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany). Palaeontographica, Abt. A 286: 123-157.
22. Kutscher, F. 1968. Beiträge zur Sedimentation und Fossilführung des Hunsrückschiefers.-19. Röntgenaufnahmen von Dachschieferplatten mit Tentakuliten. Nassauischer Verein für Naturkunde 99: 18-21.
23. Lehmann, W. M. 1950. Mimetaster hexagonalis Gürich. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen 91B: 101-120.
24. Lehmann, W. M. 1955. Vachonisia rogeri n. g. n. sp., ein Branchiopod aus dem unterdevonischen Hunsrückschiefer. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 29: 126-130.
25. Maldonado, M., and I. Uriz. 1992. Relationships between sponges and crabs: Patterns of epibiosis on Inachus aguiarii (Decapoda: Majidae). Marine Biology 113: 281-286.
26. Moore, R. C. 1959. Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Part R, 0121. New York: University of Kansas Press.
27. Novozilov, N. 1960. Klass Hemicrustacea Novojilov, cl. nov. In Osnovy paleontologii. Spravocniak dla paleontologov I geologov SSSR, Clenistonogie, trilobitoobraznie I rakoobraznie, ed. N. E. Cernyseva, 197-200. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR.
28. Opitz, R. 1932. Seestern oder Krebs? Ein merkwürdiges Gliedertier (Mimetaster) aus den Dachschiefern von Bundenbach. Natur und Museum 62: 150-152.
29. Peng, S., X. Yangand, and N. C. Hughes. 2008. The oldest known stalk-eyed trilobite, Parablackwelderia Kobayashi, 1942 (Damesellinae, Cambrian), and its occurrence in Shandong, China. Journal of Paleontology 82: 842-850.
30. Rolfe, W. D. I. 1969. Arthropoda incertae sedis. In Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. Part R. Arthropoda 4(2), ed. Raymond C. Moore, R620-R625. Lawrence: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
31. Schindler, T., O. E. Sutcliffe, C. Bartels, M. Poschmann, and M. Wuttke. 2002. Lithostratigraphical subdivision and chronostratigraphical position of the middle Kaub formation (Lower Emsian, Lower Devonian) of the Bundenbach area (Hunsrück, SW Germany). Metalla 9: 73-88.
32. Schumacher, G. A., R. C. Frey, and L. E. Babcock. 1998. Commensal epibionts on Flexicalymene (Trilobita, Ordivician). Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 30: 70.
33. Siveter, D. J., R. A. Fortey, M. D. Sutton, D. E. G. Briggs, and D. J. Siveter. 2007. A silurian marrellomorph arthropod. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 2223-2229.
34. Stürmer, W. 1969. Röntgenuntersuchung an paläontologischen Präparaten. Electromedica 2: 48-50.
35. Stürmer, W., and J. Bergström. 1976. The arthropods Mimetaster and Vachonisia from the Devonian Hunsrück Slate. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 50: 78-111.
36. Sutcliffe, O. E., D. E. G. Briggs, and C. Bartels. 1999. Ichnological evidence for the environmental setting of the Fossil-Lagerstätten in the Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany. Geology 27: 275-278.
37. Sutcliffe, O. E., S. L. Tibbs, and D. E. G. Briggs. 2002. Sedimentology and environmental interpretation of the fine-grained turbidites in the Kaub formation of the Hunsrück Slate: analysis of a section excavated for Project Nahecaris. Metalla 9: 89-122.
38. van Roy, P. 2006. Non-trilobite arthropods from the Ordovician of Morocco. PhD thesis, Ghent University.
39. Waugh, D. A., R. M. Feldmann, R. S. Crawford, S. L. Jakobsen, and K. B. Thomas. 2004. Epibiont preservational and observational bias in fossil marine decapods. Journal of Paleontology 78: 961-972.
40. Whittington, H. B. 1971. Redescription of Marrella splendens (Trilobitoidea) from the Burgess Shale, Middle Cambrian, British Columbia. Geological Survey Bulletin 209: 1-24.
41. Wills, M. A., D. E. G. Briggs, R. A. Fortey, M. Wilkinson, and P. H. A. Sneath. 1998. An arthropod phylogeny based on fossil and recent taxa. In Arthropod fossils and phylogeny, ed. G. D. Edgecombe, 33-105. New York: Columbia University Press.