Notes on the First Find of Upper Devonian Stegocephalian Fossils in East Greenland in 1929
作者:
Oskar Kulling,
期刊:
Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar
(Taylor Available online 1970)
卷期:
Volume 92,
issue 4
页码: 496-500
ISSN:0016-786X
年代: 1970
DOI:10.1080/11035897009452979
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
During the Danish East Greenland expedition in 1929 the author inter alia collected Upper Devonian vertebrate remains in several localities. The bulk of the material was obtained at the northern slope of Mount Celsius on Ymerön. Among the vertebrate fossils collected there was a relatively well preserved somewhat reptilian looking skull with acuminated teeth. The author designed it to be very likely the skull of a primitive stegocephalian. After the return of the expedition to Copenhagen the expdition leader Lauge Koch reported inter alia on the discovery of the Devonian “toad”. In 1931 E. Stensiö published a monograph of the Upper Devonian fish fossils collected during the expedition. The same year G. Säve—Söderbergh accompanied by three fossil hunters took part in a Danish expedition to East Greenland. During the greater part of the field season they looked for stegophalian skulls on the northern slope of the above-named Mount Celsius. In 1932 Säve—Söderbergh published a report on the most interesting specimens of the collected stegocephalian skulls. E. Jarvik's mentioning of the present author's vertebrate finds in 1929 and his statement in an earlier paper on Devonian vertebrates: “Hitherto Ichthyostegalians have been found only in the Remigolepis series of East Greenland. The first finding were made by O. Kulling in 1929 in Mount Celsius”, put the idea in the writer's head to publish a figure of his old finding, the skull with acuminated teeth, together with some comments. However, the whereabouts of the very skull could not at present. be located in the vertebrate collections at the Natural History museums in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
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