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Dictyoclostus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Strophomenata
    Order:  
Productida
    Superfamily:  
Productoidea
    Family:  
Productidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Dictyoclostus MUIR-WOOD, 1930, p. 103
    Type Species:  
Anomites semireticulatus MARTIN, 1809, p. 7, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 331a-d. *D. semireticulatus (MarTIN), upper Viséan, Yorkshire, neotype, ventral, dorsal, posterior, lateral views, BMNH B45691, X1 (new)., Fig. 331e. D. pinguis (Muir-Wood), upper Viséan, Yorkshire, wax replica of dorsal valve interior, X1 (Muir-Wood & Cooper, 1960).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Europe, ?Asia, ?northern Africa


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

Medium to commonly large, ribbing entire, ginglymus absent, spines clustered at ears, otherwise weak, cardinal ridges weak, not extended as ear baffles




References



Museum or Author Information

Muir-Wood & Cooper, 1960