Lepidoleptaena Havliček, 1963

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Genus Lepidoleptaena Havliček, 1963

Remarks.—The type species of the genus is Lepidoleptaena lepidula ( Barrande, 1879) , from the Lower Devonian Koněprusy Limestone of Bohemia, which was revised by Havliček (1967: 107). Silurian species of the genus are known and Modzalevskaya and Pushkin (1989: 96) have recorded Lepidoleptaena cf. poulseni Kelly, 1967 from the Ludlow– Pridoli of Belarus; and Basset and Cocks (1974:) recorded Lepidoleptaena sp. from the Upper Ludlow of Gotland. There are no other previous records of the genus from the East Baltic, apart from Lepidoleptaena sp. recorded by Rubel et al. (1984: 13) from an unspecified locality and horizon. The genus is poorly represented in the Lithuanian boreholes, but wider specimens of which we have no interiors may represent the genus there, and there is a single incomplete ventral interior, VU B20495, from the central Lithuanian Pridoli Jūra Formation in the Vilkaviškis−129 borehole (596.3 m), which shows the rim to the ventral disc which is characteristic of the genus and is therefore identified as Lepidoleptaena sp.