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Comments on the Squamation of Polish Lower Devonian Porolepiforms

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Porolepiform scales from the Lower Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, described from the ‘placoderm sandstone’ of the Daleszyce area, are revised. The aim of the present article is to organize the recently collected, but not formally described, porolepiform material from the Holy Cross Mountains, as well as specimens from erratic boulders collected near Gdynia (northernmost Poland), which can be referred to Porolepis. Previously collected and new material was found to contain at least two sarcopterygian taxa: Porolepis and Heimenia. Based on morphological and histological features, the described material has been divided into two scale assemblages. The first, which is assigned to Porolepis, possesses cosmine cover on the entire exposed area; in the second, assigned to Heimenia, the cosmine cover is reduced or absent. These features prove to be stable regardless of the position of the scale on the body and thus are taxonomically informative.

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... Un for tu nately, the sec tion and its sedimentological de tails are not known to have been doc u mented at that time. Dur ing the past two de cades one of us (PS) has made ex ca va tions at the site, pri mar ily for ob tain ing new fos sils, and sev eral hun dred spec i mens have been collected and are un der study (Bur row and Szrek, 2018;Dec, 2019;Wilk et al., 2020;Szrek et al., 2021); it forms the larg est col lec tion of Early De vo nian ver te brates from the re gion as sembled so far. ...
... Mondéjar-Fernández and Clément (2012) noted that the mi gra tion must have ended be fore the clo sure of open ma rine links. The pres ence of Heimenia in the Holy Cross Moun tains was first sug gested by rvig (1969) based on the ma te rial de scribed by Kulczycki (1960) and cor rob o rated by Wilk et al. (2020). The rest of the fauna does not re flect such di rect sys tem atic af fin i ties (see Szrek and Dupret, 2017), and is char ac ter ised as tran si tional be tween Baltica and west ern Eu rope. ...
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