As February fossil fever has yet to break, I went hunting in the postal formation for some side projects. This Devonian Oklahoma (Haragan Fm) phacopid was the first to arrive out of four bugs incoming. I had my doubts about it being complete. This would be my first go at the well known Oklahoma material. This job would mostly be dolomite, swapping in the Pferd on occasion. It is not possible to discern whether this is a Paciphacops or a Kainops without revealing the eyes. The former has fewer lens files (3-4ish). Turned out complete with the pygidium tucked underneath. I also left the little epibiont on the glabella (it was more spread out along the body, some form of bryozoan or other encruster). Due to the lense count, it is indeed a Kainops. That actually makes a new species for me since, after I reexamined what I thought was a Kainops I received a few years ago, that one turned out to be Paciphacops. This one is a bit on the rougher looking side, almost as if it had been exposed a bit too long before burial. Still, intact, complete, small, and representative of the species.
A short post for a small bug. The next preps will be making their way to me in the next few weeks: Calymene breviceps (a full prone from the classic Waldron shale), Hollardops (possibly, but the asteropyginae are a clustered bunch in Morocco, so I will need to reveal the lappets and the anterior cephalic area to determine the precise species), and Dysplanus acutigenia, an enrolled corynexochid from Russia. Comments are closed.
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