Exuviation of the Genus Placoparia Hawle and Corda, 1847 (Trilobita, Ordovician, Prague Basin, Czech Republic)

• Jana Bruthansová ^[1] ; Petr budil ^[2]
  1. [1] Palaeontological Department, National Museum, Czech Republic
  2. [2] Czech Geological Survey, Czech Republic
• Localización: Serie correlación geológica, ISSN-e 1666-9479, ISSN 1514-4186, Vol. 17, Nº. 1, 2003
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The genus Placoparia Hawle and Corda, 1847 belongs to the most common Bohemian Ordovician trilobite genera. In the Prague Basin it ranges a wide stratigraphical scale from the Lower Ordovician Klabava Formation to the Middle Ordovician Letná Formation (for details see Prantl and Šnajdr, 1957, etc.). The aim of this paper is to evaluate possible modes of the exuviation process in this genus and distinguish the carcasses from the exuviae.