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Finospirifer
Classification
Phylum:
Brachiopoda
Class:
Rhynchonellata
Order:
Spiriferida
Superfamily:
Spiriferoidea
Family:
Spiriferidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Finospirifer YIN, 1981, p. 240
Type Species:
* F. taotangensis, OD
Images
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Fig. 1170, 5 a-f. *F* taotangensis, a-c, dorsal, anterior, and posterior views, d-f, transverse sections, × 1 (Yin, 1981).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
China (Hunan Province)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Carboniferous (Tournaisian)
Beginning International Stage:
Tournaisian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
359.3
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Carboniferous (Tournaisian)
Ending International Stage:
Tournaisian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
346.73
Description
Medium size, moderately to strongly transverse, outline subsemicircular to subquadrate, cardinal extremities moderately to strongly mucronate, fold and sulcus well developed, sulcus with disproportionately strong median plication and several pairs of narrow lateral sulcal costae, fold carinate, lateral sloping with moderately numerous simple or rarely bifurcating costae, ventral interior with delthyrial plate, otherwise similar to Unispirifer
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Brachiopoda
Class:
Rhynchonellata
Order:
Spiriferida
Superfamily:
Spiriferoidea
Family:
Spiriferidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Finospirifer YIN, 1981, p. 240
Type Species:
* F. taotangensis, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 1170, 5 a-f. *F* taotangensis, a-c, dorsal, anterior, and posterior views, d-f, transverse sections, × 1 (Yin, 1981).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
China (Hunan Province)
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Carboniferous (Tournaisian)
Beginning International Stage:
Tournaisian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
359.3
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Carboniferous (Tournaisian)
Ending International Stage:
Tournaisian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
346.73
Description
Medium size, moderately to strongly transverse, outline subsemicircular to subquadrate, cardinal extremities moderately to strongly mucronate, fold and sulcus well developed, sulcus with disproportionately strong median plication and several pairs of narrow lateral sulcal costae, fold carinate, lateral sloping with moderately numerous simple or rarely bifurcating costae, ventral interior with delthyrial plate, otherwise similar to Unispirifer