RT Journal Article
T1 Filling the Silurian gap of solutan echinoderms with the description of new species of Dehmicystis from Spain
A1 Zamora Iranzo, Samuel
A1 Gutiérrez Marco, Juan Carlos
AB Solutans were among the most enigmatic pre-radial and asymmetric echinoderms. A new species Dehmicystis ariasi sp. nov. is described from the upper part of the Llagarinos Formation, lower Ludlow (Silurian) of Northwest Spain. This is the first solutan formally described from Iberia and the first from the Silurian worldwide. Dehmicystis was previously known based on a small number of poorly preserved specimens from the Emsian, Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Germany. New observations based on the newly studied material suggest that Dehmicystis displayed a feeding appendage facing towards the substrate, and the periproct on the opposite face of the theca. Comparisons with other solutans and new data suggest that Dehmicystis was a detritus feeder that moved over the substrate capturing organic particles from the sediment with a single feeding arm.
PB Polish Academy of Sciences
SN 0567-7920
YR 2023
FD 2023-05-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/87744
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/87744
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
NO European Regional Development Fund
NO Gobierno de Aragón
NO IGME-CSIC
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025