Abstract
ABSTRACT Four new osteostracan species are described from the basal part of the Lower Devonian Spokoinaya Formation on October Revolution Island, Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russia: Tauraspis rara, gen. et sp. nov., Hapilaspis apheles, gen. et sp. nov., Severaspis rostralis, gen. et sp. nov. and Benneviaspis urvantsevi, sp. nov. All are referred to the order Benneviaspidida, with some reservation in the case of T. rara. S. rostralis is regarded as the sister-group of the Boreaspididae, hitherto recorded only from the Wood Bay Formation of Spitsbergen. B. urvantsevi is similar to some of the species of Benneviaspis from the basal part of the Wood Bay Formation of Spitsbergen. The latter two species suggest a correlation between the base of the Spokoinaya Formation and that of the Wood Bay Formation or the top of the Red Bay Group (Ben Nevis Formation) of Spitsbergen; the osteostracan assemblage would be early Pragian in age. In addition, an undetermined cornuate osteostracan from the base of the Severnay...
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