Article: Silicified trilobites of the family Asaphidae from the Middle Ordovician of Virginia
Publication: Palaeontology
Volume:
29
Part:
4
Publication Date:
December
1986
Page(s):
705
–
724
Author(s):
R. P. Tripp and W. R. Evitt
Abstract
Protaspis, meraspis, and holaspis stages of Isotelus giselae sp. nov. from the Edinburg Formation (Middle Ordovician) of Virginia are described; diagnostic features of the dorsal shield are the absence of a distinct lateral depression, and the short, strongly elevated palpebral lobes. Four moults during the protaspis period are denned by changes in the hypostomes. Iotelus spp. A-E, from the lower and upper Lincolnshire, Oranda, and Martinsburg Formations (Middle Ordovician) of Virginia are based on less complete material. Nahannia sp. is described from the Lincolnshire Formation.