UTRECHT MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL BUllETINS
UTRECHT MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL BUllETINS
UTRECHT MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL BUllETINS
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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-