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Eomarginifera

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Strophomenata
    Order:  
Productida
    Superfamily:  
Productoidea
    Family:  
Productidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Eomarginifera MUIR-WOOD, 1930, p. 103
    Type Species:  
Productus longispinus J. SOWERBY, 1814 in 1812-1815, p. 154, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 316, 3a-d. $* E$. longispina (J. Sowerby), upper Viséan, Ayrshire, Scotland, ventral, dorsal, lateral, posterior views of complete specimen, x2$ (new), Fig. 316, 3e, f. E. lobata (J. Sowerby), $e$, internal mold of ventral valve, Pendleian, Northumberland, British Isles, $\\times$, $f$, dorsal valve interior, Brigantian, x2$ (new)


Synonyms

Lissomarginifera


Geographic Distribution

Eurasia, northern Africa, ?North America


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:  
Upper Carboniferous (?lower Moscovian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Moscovian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
307.02


Description

Small, around 15 mm wide, ears small, zygidium absent, six symmetrical, stout spines, commonly weak median sulcus, dorsal submarginal ridges weak anteriorly, absent ventrally




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