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A Redescription of Tesseraspis Mosaica Karatajūtė-Talimaa, 1983 Acta Geologica Polonica, Vol. 68 (2018), No. 3, pp. 275–306 DOI: 10.1515/agp-2018-0024 A redescription of Tesseraspis mosaica Karatajūtė-Talimaa, 1983 (Vertebrata: †Pteraspidomorphi: Heterostraci) from the Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) of Severnaya Zemlya, Russia, with a review of tessellated heterostracan taxa ALAIN BLIECK1, DAVID K. ELLIOTT2 and VALENTINA N. KARATAJŪTĖ-TALIMAA3 1 38 rou Paul Daumer, F-59320, Haubordin, France. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Division of Geology, SES, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ 86011-4099, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 3 Architektu 3–60, Lazdynai, LT-03223 Vilnius, Lithuania. ABSTRACT: Blieck, A., Elliott, D.K. and Karatajūtė-Talimaa, V.N. 2018. A redescription of Tesseraspis mosaica Karatajūtė- Talimaa, 1983 (Vertebrata: †Pteraspidomorphi: Heterostraci) from the Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) of Severnaya Zemlya, Russia, with a review of tessellated heterostracan taxa. Acta Geologica Polonica, 68 (3), 275–306. Warszawa. Material of tesseraspids (Tesseraspidiformes) is reported from the uppermost Severnaya Zemlya Formation (Lochkovian, Lower Devonian) of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, in the Russian Arctic, where it is as- sociated with other vertebrate remains, including corvaspids, acanthodians, and large but rare specimens of osteostracans. The tesseraspid material is not abundant, and most often preserved as a “patchwork” of bony platelets (tesserae), except for a few partly articulated specimens. We redescribe the holotype of Tesseraspis mosaica Karatajūtė-Talimaa, 1983, whose head carapace is preserved as a flattened tube of adjacent tesserae. This material is compared to the already published tesseraspid taxa, i.e., T. tessellata Wills, 1935, T. toombsi Tarlo, 1964, T. mutabilis (Brotzen, 1934), T. oervigi Tarlo, 1964 emend. Dineley and Loeffler, 1976, T. deni- soni Tarlo, 1964, and T. talimaae Tarlo, 1965. All species are based upon rare and incomplete material, as no head carapaces associated with trunk and tail are known, and so, the intraspecific variability is also unknown. Distinction between “species” is based on the detail of the superficial sculpture of the tesserae of the head car- apaces, which is unsatisfactory. It is concluded that only four of the nominal species can be retained. A review of all other known tessellated pteraspidomorphs indicates that our knowledge of tessellated heterostracans is currently insufficient to support a meaningful classification. Key words: Tessellated heterostracans; Tesseraspidiformes; Lochkovian; Severnaya Zemlya; Comparative anatomy; Systematic review. This paper is dedicated to our colleague and friend Dr. Elga Mark-Kurik (26.12.1928–06.11.2016), an active expert in Palaeozoic vertebrates, who participated in expeditions to the Russian Arctic regions, and in particular to Severnaya Zemlya. 276 ALAIN BLIECK ET AL. Text-fig. 1. Members of the 1978 Soviet summer expedition to Severnaya Zemlya: base camp along the Matusevich River, with, from left to right: Juozas J. Valiukevičius (Vilnius, Lithuania), Nikolai Kolotov (Novosibirsk, Russia), the driver, Rostislav G. Matukhin (Novosibirsk, Russia), Vladimir V. Menner (Moscow, Russia), Valentina N. Karatajūtė-Talimaa (Vilnius, Lithuania), the radio operator, and Avo Kärber (Estonia, cook). They stand in front of the Severnaya Zemlya Formation that shows a homoclinal structure INTRODUCTION sented in the Silurian–Devonian. Heterostracans were first collected on the October Revolution Island This paper is part of a series of publications of Severnaya Zemlya in 1978 during an expedition on Silurian–Devonian vertebrate faunas from the with Drs. V.V. Men ner, R.G. Mat u k hin, V.M. Ku ršs, Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, on the northern J.J. Valiukevičius and V.N. Karatajūtė-Talimaa (Text- margin of Russian Arctic regions. This program fig. 1), and subsequently in 1979 during an expedition is part of a French-Lithuanian collaboration, in- when Dr. E. Mark-Kurik collected additional material cluding study of the collections of the Lithuanian (Karatajūtė-Talimaa 1983, p. 22). The tesseraspidid Institute of Geology and Geography from 1997 to material comes from four localities in the uppermost 2005 (Kara tajūtė-Talimaa and Blieck 1999; Blieck Severnaya Zemlya Formation of October Revolution and Kara tajūtė-Talimaa 2001; Blieck et al. 2002). Island (Matukhin and Menner 1999). Their faunal This activity was part of IGCP projects 406 “Circum- lists are provided in the Appendix. Arctic Palaeozoic Vertebrates” (1996–2000) and 491 The original paper on Tesseraspis mosaica Kara- “Middle Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biogeography, Palaeo- tajūtė-Talimaa, 1983 comprised a preliminary paper geography and Climate” (2003–2008), and later of on the material presented here, with a rather short the French-Lithuanian exchange programme Gilibert description of the holotype. It is more precisely de- (2005–2008). The material was originally collected scribed and figured herein. New specimens have been by Drs. V.N. Karatajūtė-Talimaa, E. Mark-Kurik, and prepared both mechanically with needles, and by etch- J.J. Valiukevičius from expeditions to the archipel- ing in dilute formic acid. Palaeohistological thin sec- ago in 1978 and 1979. The Silurian–Devonian sedi- tions have been prepared and are also described and mentary sequence of Severnaya Zemlya yields rich figured. All specimens are curated at the Lithuanian assemblages of heterostracan vertebrates, providing Institute of Geology and Geography (prefix LIG = important information on their taxonomy, phylogeny, Geologijos ir geografijos institutas in Lithuanian), biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography. Nature Research Centre, Akademijos 2, Vilnius, Li- In this paper, we focus on tesseraspidid hetero- thu ania (new address and information provided by stracans, a group of vertebrates that is rarely repre- Dr. Gražina Skridlaitė, e-mail on 21.04.2017). TESSERASPIS MOSAICA FROM THE LOWER DEVONIAN OF RUSSIA 277 COMMENTS ON TAPHONOMY natus Valiukevičius, 2003 at the Spokoinaya River locality (41-12 of Matukhin and Menner 1999; The material is not abundant and is most often Valiukevičius 2003, figs 2, 28E, 30A); Acritolepis preserved as a “patchwork” of broken fragments of urvantsevi Valiukevičius, 2003, Nostolepis decora carapaces, except for a few partly articulated spec- Valiukevičius, 2003, and Acanthospina irregulare imens. This probably means that the conditions of Valiukevičius, 2003 at the Pod’emnaya River locality deposition and/or transportation of specimens after (67-12 of Matukhin and Menner 1999; Valiukevičius death were quite different in the different localities. 2003, figs 13, 17, 46); and Acanthopora transitans The articulated head carapace of T. mosaica from at the Ushakov River locality (21-9 of Matukhin the Matusevich River (locality 1-21 of Matukhin and and Menner 1999; Valiukevičius 2003, fig. 41A–C). Menner 1999; Text-fig. 1 and Appendix, locality 1 Valiukevičius (2003, table 2) analysed the distribu- herein) may be used as an argument for a short trans- tion and abundance of the different acanthodian spe- portation, if any, in this locality. But it should be noted cies in all four localities: the two localities richest in that the degree of articulation is most strongly related acanthodian specimens are undoubtedly those at the to the level of decomposition of the organism before Matusevich River and Pod’emnaya River (localities it is transported. Fresh specimens can be transported 1-21 and 67-12), but, much more articulated material some distance without disarticulation. The state of has been collected at the Matusevich River (locality preservation of the disarticulated tesserae found with 1-21) than in the other three. This result for the acan- the articulated head carapace is very good and al- thodians is in agreement with the observations on the lowed thin sections to be made for histological studies Tesseraspis material. (see the corresponding section below). This proba- In the Matusevich locality (1-21) all the articu- bly also means that the material was buried quickly lated specimens are preserved in carbonate concre- and suffered little diagenetic alteration. However, this tions within the uppermost part of the Severnaya head carapace is nearly totally flattened indicating Zemlya Formation, which is composed of predom- compaction of the sediment. The other three locali- inantly dark grey, thinly laminated, non-carbonate ties that have yielded Tesseraspis Wills, 1935 remains argillites with thin limestone interlayers (Matukhin also come from the uppermost Severnaya Zemlya and Menner 1999, p. 39). The occurrence of concre- Formation, in a sequence which corresponds to the tions is certainly related to the state of preservation same level as the Matusevich River locality (VNKT’s of the fossil material. At this locality, there is only personal field observations; J.J. Valiukevičius, pers. one layer with fish-bearing concretions, constitut- comm., 2005; and see Männik et al. 2002, p. 111). ing a good field marker. The lithology of the other However, the material of Tesseraspis from these three localities differs from that at the Matusevich River. localities consists of disarticulated and fragmentary The Pod’emnaya River locality (67-12), in the up- specimens, either separated tesserae, broken pieces of per member of the formation (22 m), is composed of head and/or trunk carapaces, or only partially artic- greenish red argillites with limestone interlayers and ulated parts of head carapaces. This probably corre- contains two layers with
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