Mimetaster

Mimetaster
Temporal range: Lower Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Stem-group: Arthropoda
Class: Marrellomorpha
Family: Mimetasteridae
Genus: Mimetaster
Binomial name
Mimetaster hexagonalis
Gürich, 1931

Mimetaster is a Devonian marrellomorph known from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Shale,[1] and is the most common arthropod (trilobites excluded) from the locality, known from over 100 specimens including three juveniles.[2] The animals probably lived in small groups.[2]

References

  1. Stürmer, W; Bergström, J (1976). "The arthropods Mimetaster and Vachonisia from the Devonian Hunsrück Shale". Paläontologische Zeitschrift 50 (1): 78–111. doi:10.1007/bf03001974.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kühl, G.; Rust, J. (2010). "Re-investigation of Mimetaster hexagonalis: a marrellomorph arthropod from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84: 397. doi:10.1007/s12542-009-0049-x.