Sébastien Olive (2015)
Devonian antiarch placoderms from Belgium revisited
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 60(3):711-731.
Anatomical, systematic, and paleobiogeographical data on the Devonian antiarchs from Belgium
are reviewed, updated and completed thanks to new data from the field and re-examination of
paleontological collections. The material of Bothriolepis lohesti Leriche, 1931 is enhanced and
the species better described. An undetermined species of Bothriolepis is recorded from the
Famennian of Modave (Liège Province), one species of Asterolepis redescribed from the
Givetian of Hingeon and another one described from the Givetian of Mazy (Namur Province).
Grossilepis rikiki sp. nov. is recorded from the Famennian tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud
(Namur Province) and from the Famennian of Moresnet (Liège Province). It is the first
occurrence of Grossilepis after the Frasnian and on the central southern coast of the Euramerican
continent. Its occurrence in the Famennian of Belgium may be the result of a late arrival from the
Moscow Platform and the Baltic Depression, where the genus is known from Frasnian deposits.
Remigolepis durnalensis sp. nov. is described from the Famennian of Spontin near Durnal
(Namur Province). Except for the doubtful occurrence of Remigolepis sp. in Scotland, this is the
first record of this genus in Western Europe. Its occurrence in Belgium reinforces the strong
faunal affinities between Belgium and East Greenland and the hypothesis of a hydrographical
link between the two areas during the Late Devonian.
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