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标题：Chaetognath grasping spines from the Upper Mississippian of Arkansas (USA)
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作者：LARISA A. DOGUZHAEVA ; HARRY MUTVEI ; ROYAL H. MAPES 等
期刊名称：Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
印刷版ISSN：0567-7920
电子版ISSN：1732-2421
出版年度：2002
卷号：47
期号：3
页码：421-430
语种：English
出版社：Institute of Paleobiology PAS
摘要：Previously unidentified tiny (about 0.5 mm in length), hollow, gently curved, serrated spines probably originally composed of horny, organic fibers from the Upper Mississippian (Middle Chesterian = Namurian A equivalent or lower Serpukhovian) of Arkansas (USA) are described, and their probable chaetognath affinities are discussed. The specimens are preserved in an oval accumulation (about 15 mm long and 6 mm wide) of approximately 200 specimens within a small (about 25 mm in length) phosphatic concretion. For comparison, the grasping spines of the Recent chaetognath Eukrohnia hamata were examined. The Arkansas specimens are named Eoserratosagitta serrata gen. et sp. nov., and this genus is assigned to the Phylum Chaetognatha. The Upper Mississippian spines are also compared with protoconodonts. This comparison supports the hypothesis that the chaetognaths may have existed in the Cambrian.
关键词：Chaetognatha;organic spines;protoconodonts;phosphatized fossils;Mississippian