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Chonetipustula

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Strophomenata
    Order:  
Productida
    Superfamily:  
Strophalosioidea
    Family:  
Araksalosiidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Chonetipustula PAECKELMANN, 1931, p. 31
    Type Species:  
Productus plicatus SARRES, 1857, p. 20, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 416, 3a, b. * C. plicata (Sarres), upper Viséan, Germany, Rhine, $a$, internal mold of ventral valve, $X_{1}, b$, ventral valve exterior, $X_{1}$ (Muir-Wood & Cooper, 1960).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Europe, ?Asia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Carboniferous (Viséan)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Visean
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
346.73
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Carboniferous (Viséan)
    Ending International Stage:  
Visean
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
330.34


Description

Small, outline semicircular, interareas reduced, both valves rugose, ventral spines long, fine, straight at hinge line, recumbent elsewhere, but rare dorsally, short ventral umbonal myophragm, teeth and sockets small, cardinal process occupies delthyrium, marginal ridges unknown. Lower Carboniferous (Viséan): Europe, ?Asia.




References



Museum or Author Information

Muir-Wood & Cooper, 1960