Thelodont scales from the Middle-Late Devonian Aztec Siltstone, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Turner, S., Young, G. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1992
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; Victoria Land
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102092000142; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102092000142

A new fossil agnathan, Turinia antarctica sp. nov., based on numerous isolated scales, comes from the lower fish-bearing beds of the Aztec Siltstone. Scales from moraine at Mount Suess, originally described as selachian or psammosteid heterostracan, are referred to the new species which shows close...