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H.-P. Schultze, T. Marss. Revisiting Lophosteus
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Lophosteus superbus Pander, 1856
Figs 1-2
1856 Lophosteus superbus — Pander: 62; pl. 6, fig. 23 a-c.
1856 Pterichthys harderi — Pander: 63; pl. 5, fig. 9.
1856 Pterichthys elegans — Pander: 63; pl. 5, fig. 10 a-d.
1858 Lophosteus superbus — Schmidt: 185.
1891 Lophosteus superbus — Woodward: 128.
1893 Lophosteus superbus — Rohon: 69-75; pl. 1, figs 38 + 39, pl. 3, figs 66 + 67.
1893 Lophosteus harderi — Rohon: 75-76; pl. 1, fig. 48.
1969 Lophosteus superbus — Gross: 16-46; 17 figs.
1971 Lophosteus superbus — Gross: 131-151; figs 1-7 + 9 A-H.
1977 Lophosteus superbus — Schultze: 152.
1977 Lophosteus — Schultze: 152-157; figs 1 + 2.
1978 Lophosteus superbus — Janvier: 90-91, 93-94.
1982 Lophosteus — Pearson: 54.
1986 Lophosteus superbus — Märss: 58, 90; text-fig. 24.2 a, b; pl. 35, figs 1-14, pl. 36, figs 3-
6.
1987 Lophosteus superbus — Talimaa and Melnikov: 15.
1989 Lophosteus superbus — Märss: 285-286; fig. 176 G 5.
1991 Lophosteus superbus — Otto: 345-346; fig. 1.
1991 Lophosteus — Otto: 345-349.
1992 Lophosteus — Schultze: 239; fig. 11.
1995a Lophosteus superbus — Burrow: 327, 332.
1995 Lophosteus superbus — Turner et al.: 385.
1996 Lophosteus — Janvier: 183-184, 187-188; figs 4.65 D1,2 + 4.67 A.
1997 Lophosteus superbus — Märss: figs 2, 5.
1998 Lophosteus superbus — Märss et al.: 62, 70.
2000 Lophosteus superbus — Märss: 68.
2001 Lophosteus — Märss: 185-186.
2001 Lophosteus superbus — Märss: 186.
Neotype: scale Tü Pi 1359/1 (Gross 1969: fig. 1 A, B, 2 H 1-3
).
Additional material: many scales, spines and plates.
Type locality: Ohesaare cliff, Saaremaa (German: Ösel), Estonia.
Type horizon: Ozarkodina remscheidensis remscheidensis Conodont Subzone (Viira
and Männik 1997), Ohesaare Regional Stage, upper Pridoli, Upper Silurian.
Localities: Loode cliff, Saaremaa, Estonia, and the following bore holes in Estonia:
Ingelandi-615, depth 41.5 m; Ingelandi-618, depth 35.5 m; Kaavi-568, depth 9.2-42.2
m; Kaavi-571, depth 17.3-32.3 m; Mäebe-869, depth 51.7 m; Ruhnu-500, depth 148.1-
171.9 m; Sõrve-514, depth 31.1-45.5 m; Tammuna-569, depth 1.1-10.5 m; Türju-620,
depth 3.5-12.9 m; in Latvia: Ventspils, depth 271.3-325.5 m; Kolka-54, depth 158.3-
205.9 m; and in Kaliningrad District: Kashino, depth 1005.4 m.
Diagnosis: ridgelets form an angle of 40°-65° to the crest; anterior overlapped field
pustulate.
Description. L. superbus is common at Ohesaare Cliff. Gross (1969, 1971) gave
extensive descriptions of scales, bony plates, tooth plates and spines. We will deal here
only with the spines, add one unusual element, and re-describe a platelet from Märss
(1986: pl. 35, fig. 1 a, b).