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Cyrtonotella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Rhynchonellata
    Order:  
Orthida
    Superfamily:  
Orthoidea
    Family:  
Nanorthidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Cyrtonotella Schuchert & COOPER, 1931, p. 243
    Type Species:  
Orthis semicircularis von EICHWALD, 1829, p. 276, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 537, 4a-c. * C. semicircularis (von Eichwald), middle Ordovician, Russia, ventral, dorsal, posterior views of conjoined valves, X5 (Schuchert & Cooper, 1932)., Fig. 537, 4d, e. C. kukersiana (Wysogórski), middle Ordovician, Russia, $d$, dorsal interior, x2.25$, e, internal mold of ventral valve, x1$ (Sarytcheva, 1960).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Northern Hemisphere


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Ordovician (Llanvirn)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Dapingian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
471.26
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Ordovician (Caradoc)
    Ending International Stage:  
Katian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
66.7
    Ending Date:  
447.72


Description

"Medium size, transversely semioval with acute cardinal extremities, plano- to concavoconvex, rectimarginate, coarsely costellate and filate, ventral interarea anacline, divergent dental plates, short, divergent, bladelike brachiophores."




References



Museum or Author Information

Schuchert & Cooper, 1932, Sarytcheva, 1960