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Protocimex: a phyllocarid crustacean, not an Ordovician insect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Michael G. Bassett  and
Vivianne Berg-Madsen
Michael G. Bassett
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff CF1 3NP, U.K.
Vivianne Berg-Madsen
Affiliation:
Geological Institute, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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In 1892 the Swedish paleontologist Johan Christian Moberg described and illustrated what he interpreted as a fossil insect (Hemiptera) from beds of early Ordovician age in the southernmost limestone quarry at Killeröd, Smedstorp Parish in Skåne [Scania], southern Sweden. In a later paper in the same year (Moberg, 1892b), he also made a further passing reference to the presence of the same fossil when describing the accompanying graptolite fauna from Killeröd. One of his main reasons for recording this find was his conclusion (Moberg, 1892a, p. 122) that “it is evidently of great interest with full certainty to be able to prove the presence of airbreathing (terrestrial) animals as far back in time as that during which the oldest strata of the lower Silurian [i.e., Ordovician] were formed” [translation from Swedish].

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 67 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 144 - 147
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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