THE EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE OF SCALE-LIKE SPINES ON THE AUSTRALIAN AND SW PACIFIC CAINOZOIC-OSTRACODS PONTICOCYTHEREIS-MANIS WHATLEY AND TITTERTON, 1981 AND TRACHYLEBERIS-FLORIDUS SP-NOV

Authors
WARNE MT WHATLEY RC
Citation
Mt. Warne et Rc. Whatley, THE EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE OF SCALE-LIKE SPINES ON THE AUSTRALIAN AND SW PACIFIC CAINOZOIC-OSTRACODS PONTICOCYTHEREIS-MANIS WHATLEY AND TITTERTON, 1981 AND TRACHYLEBERIS-FLORIDUS SP-NOV, Journal of micropalaeontology, 15, 1996, pp. 161-168
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Paleontology
Journal title
Journal of micropalaeontology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0262821X
Volume
15
Year of publication
1996
Part
2
Pages
161 - 168
Database
ISI
SICI code
0262-821X(1996)15:<161:TESOSS>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
Ponticocythereis species are a discrete phylogenetic group within the Trachyleberididae that evolved in the SW Pacific and Australasian regi ons during the Tertiary. The presence of similar scale-like spines on the unrelated species Ponticocythereis manis Whatley & Titterton, 1981 and Trachyleberis floridus sp. nov. is presented as an example of con vergent evolution.