Asteropygine tribolites from the Late Devonian of the Kerman region, Iran

Authors

Pierre Morzadec, Universite de Rennes I
Mohammad Dastanpour, Shahid Bahonar University
Anthony J. Wright, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

89240

Publication Details

Morzadec, P., Dastanpour, M. & Wright, A. J. (2002). Asteropygine tribolites from the Late Devonian of the Kerman region, Iran. Alcheringa: an Australian journal of palaeontology, 26 (1-2), 143-149.

Abstract

The discovery of two new Frasnian species of the subfamily Asteropyginae, Bradocryphaeus kermanensis and Radiopyge hamedii, in the Haruz section north of Kerman, east-central Iran, demontrates for the first time the presence of North Gondwanan trilobites in this region. The two new species provide a link between faunas from Afghanistan to the east and the Alborz Mountains in north Iran. The recognition of R. hamedii confirms the validity of Radiopyge Farsan, hitherto known only from Afghanistan, as well as the presence in some Frasnian Asteropyginae of six pairs of lateral pygidial spines.