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Assemblage Zone up to and including the Triangulodus brevibasis Assemblage<br />

Zone.<br />

Genus Drepanoistodus LINDSTROM, 1971, emend. VAN WAMEL, herein<br />

Type species: Oistodus forceps LINDSTROM, 1955.<br />

Definition: See emended genus definition under Remarks.<br />

Synonym: Paltodus emend. LINDSTROM, 1971, p. 44 (not Paltodus<br />

PANDER, 1856).<br />

Remarks: The species that were referred to Drepanoistodus and Paltodus by<br />

Lindstrom (1971) do not only contain drepanodifor~ and oistodiform elements<br />

but also suberectiform (after Drepanodus subereetus (BRANSON &<br />

MEHL)), acodiform (after Acodus LINDSTROM, 1955) and scandodiform<br />

(after Scandodus LINDSTROM, 1955) elements. The elemental composition<br />

of the species of Drepanoistodus LINDSTROM and Paltodus emend.<br />

LINDSTROM being similar, these genera are considered. synonymous. Since<br />

the type species of Paltodus PANDER, 1856 has not yet been placed in a<br />

multi-element species, Drepanoistodus is the valid name for this multielement<br />

genus.<br />

The following redefinition of the genus Drepanoistodus LINDSTROM,<br />

1971 is proposed:<br />

Drepanoistodus is a multi-element genus with drepanodiform, acodiform,<br />

suberectiform, scandodiform and oistodiform elements. Except for the<br />

oistodiform elements, all element types may carry costae, thus forming<br />

paltodiform (after the form genus Paltodus PANDER, 1856) elements. The<br />

oistodiform elements have an antero-posteriorly extended base, which may<br />

open to one side. Cusp and base of the oistodiform elements meet at a sharp<br />

angle and in most specimens there is no inverted base anteriorly. Both.white<br />

and hyaline forms occur.<br />

Drepanoistodus<br />

acuminatus (PANDER), emend. VAN WAMEL, herein<br />

(PI. 2, figs. 1-6)<br />

Oistodus acuminatus PANDER, 1856, p. 27, PI. 2, fig. 20.<br />

Oneotodusvariabilis LINDSTROM, 1955a, p. 582, PI. 2, figs. 14-18, 46;Pl. 5, figs. 4, 5; Fig. 6.<br />

DistacodusperacutusLINDSTROM, 1955a, p. 555,Pl. 3, figs. 1, 2;not fig. 5d.<br />

Remarks: Similarity in colour, composition and morphology are the main<br />

indications to put these form species together in one multi-element species.<br />

The oistodiform elements (see PI. 2, figs. la, band 2a, b) most probably<br />

are identical with Oistodus acuminatus PANDER. The shape is rather charac-

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