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    Morphology and merom gradients in the Ordovician receptacilitid Fisherites reticulatus

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    The Middle to Late Ordovician receptaculitid Fisherites reticulatus (Owen 1844) is the most abundant and widespread receptaculitid known, and yet existing descriptions of its morphology do not reach the level of detail achieved in recent studies of other receptaculitid taxa. We present a redescription of the morphology of individual meroms and of the entire thallus, focusing on gradients in merom number and shape. We document positional information not with distance or angular measurements, but in terms of units of organization of the thallus itself, the number of merom sites from a reference pole. Although more labor intensive, this more accurately portrays thallus symmetry and yields a characterization of form that more directly reflects the developmental program of the organism.Receptaculit Fisherites reticulatus (Owen 1844) jest najpospolitszym przedstawicielem tej grupy skamienia艂o艣ci w 艣rodkowym i p贸藕nym ordowiku Ameryki P艂n. Liczne znaleziska o艣rodek jego szkielet贸w pozwalaj膮 na szczeg贸艂owe odtworzenie przebiegu wzrostu i u艂o偶enia poszczeg贸lnych element贸w szkieletowych (merom贸w)

    Silurian aphrosalpingid sphinctozoans from Alaska and Russia

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