THE DIVERSE BIOTA OF THE MILWAUKEE FORMATION (LATE GIVETIAN, MIDDLE DEVONIAN, WISCONSIN) AND ITS NEED FOR MODERN ANALYSIS

AbstractThree new species of Cyphaspides are proposed: C. ammari, C. nicoleae, and C. pankowskiorum. These species are based on specimens obtained from Middle Devonian (Eifelian) strata of the Bou Tchrafine Group, near Erfoud, in the Province of Errachidia, southeastern Morocco. The present contribution enhances our knowledge of Cyphaspides by providing details of three new species that are based on well-preserved, complete, and articulated types. The genus Cyphaspides is discussed, and an emended diagnosis is provided. The paleobiogeography, ontogeny, and relationships of the genus are discussed.UUID: http://zoobank.org/4a7aab8f-8c8e-4498-9cc2-6f8c69b85213

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A Woman with a Sword? – Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland

European Journal of Archaeology ◽

10.1017/eaa.2021.30 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Ulla Moilanen ◽

Tuija Kirkinen ◽

Nelli-Johanna Saari ◽

Adam B. Rohrlach ◽

Johannes Krause ◽

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Keyword(s):

Gender Identity ◽

Soil Sample ◽

Sample Analysis ◽

Early Medieval ◽

Chromosomal Aneuploidy ◽

Modern Analysis ◽

New Interpretation ◽

Adna Analysis

In 1968, a weapon grave with brooches was found at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Hattula, Finland. Since then, the grave has been interpreted as evidence of powerful women, even female warriors and leaders in early medieval Finland. Others have denied the possibility of a woman buried with a sword and tried to explain it as a double burial. We present the first modern analysis of the grave, including an examination of its context, a soil sample analysis for microremains, and an aDNA analysis. Based on these analyses, we suggest a new interpretation: the Suontaka grave possibly belonged to an individual with sex-chromosomal aneuploidy XXY. The overall context of the grave indicates that it was a respected person whose gender identity may well have been non-binary.

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I.—On a New Cephalaspis Discovered in America, etc.

Geological Magazine ◽

10.1017/s0016756800209485 ◽

1870 ◽

Vol 7 (75) ◽

pp. 397-399

Author(s):

E. Ray Lankester

Keyword(s):

Middle Devonian ◽

Lower Devonian ◽

The North ◽

North Side

Principal Dawson, of Montreal,. Canada, has placed in my hands for description a remarkably interesting specimen, indicating a species of the genus Cephalaspis in transatlantic Silurio-Devonian beds. He writes, “The specimen was found by one of my assistants, Mr. G. F. Kennedy, B.A., when collecting with me, in a bed charged with remains of Psilophyton, on the north side of Gaspé Bay. The geological horizon is below the middle of the Gaspé Sandstones, but several hundreds of feet above their actual base, so that the specimen may be regarded as either Lower Devonian or Lower Middle Devonian.

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