Mimetaster
Name:
Mimetaster.
Phonetic: Mi-me-ta-ser.
Named By: W. Stürmer & J. Bergström
- 1976.
Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda,
Marrellomorpha, Marrellida, Mimetasteridae.
Species: M. hexagonalis
(type), florestaensis.
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Roughly about 5 - 6 centimetres
across.
Known locations: Argentina Floresta Formation.
Germany - Hunsrück Slate.
Time period: Early Devonian.
Fossil representation: Well over 100 individuals.
Mimetaster
is a genus of arthropod that lived during the early Devonian period.
Further reading
- The arthropods Mimetaster and Vachonisia
from the Devonian Hunsrück
Shale. - Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 50 (1): 78–111.
- W. Stürmer & J. Bergström - 1976.
- Re-investigation of Mimetaster hexagonalis: a
marrellomorph
arthropod from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany). -
Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 84: 397. - G. Kühl &
J. Rust - 2010.
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