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ArticlePloS one2023

Earliest known ophiuroids from high palaeolatitude, southern Gondwana, recovered from the Pragian to earliest Emsian Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group, Cape Supergroup) South Africa.

Caitlin Reddy, Ben Thuy, Mhairi Reid, Robert Gess

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Article in PloS one, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Caitlin ReddyGeology Department, Rhodes University, Makhanda/Grahamstown, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-0493-4102
Ben ThuyDepartment of Palaeontology, National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Mhairi ReidDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Robert GessGeology Department, Rhodes University, Makhanda/Grahamstown, South Africa.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For the first time, ophiuroids have been found in South African strata predating the lowermost Bokkeveld Group. These comprise natural moulds and casts from two localities in the 'upper unit' of the Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group). As a Pragian to earliest Emsian age has been inferred for this member, the new taxa comprise the earliest high-palaeolatitude ophiuroid records from southern Gondwana. Morphological analysis of the specimens revealed the presence of two distinct taxa. One is here described as Krommaster spinosus gen. et sp. nov., a new encrinasterid characterised by very large spines on the dorsal side of the disc, the ventral interradial marginal plates and the arm midlines. The second taxon is a poorly preserved specimen of Hexuraster weitzi, a cheiropterasterid previously described from the slightly younger Bokkeveld Group.

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PMCPMC10599496

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