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Foliomena

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Strophomenata
    Order:  
Strophomenida
    Superfamily:  
Strophomenoidea
    Family:  
Foliomenidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Foliomena Havlíček, 1952, p. 413,
    Type Species:  
Strophomena folium BARRANDE, 1879, pl. 55, OD


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Fig. 160, $1 a-c .*$ F. folium (Barrande), Králuv Dvur Formation, Ashgill, Králuv Dvur, Czech Republic, $a$, ventral external mold, NM CD1566, $\\times$, b , lectotype, ventral internal mold, NM CD1565a, X2.5, c, dorsal internal mold, NM CD1565b, X2 (Havlíček, 1967).——FIG. 160, 1d. F. jielingensis (Zeng), Miaopo Formation, lower Caradoc, Jieling, Yichang County, Hubei Province, China, dorsal internal mold, YIGM IV45822, X5 (Zeng, new).


Synonyms

Jielingia


Geographic Distribution

cosmopolitan


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Ordovician (Caradoc)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Sandbian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
458.18
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Ordovician (Ashgill)
    Ending International Stage:  
Hirnantian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
443.07


Description

Transverse outline, biplanar to very gently concavoconvex profile, pedicle sheath often prominent, small interarea with very small pseudodeltidium, ventral muscle field bilobed, weakly impressed, short myophragm, bladelike socket ridges broadly divergent to become subparallel to hinge line




References



Museum or Author Information

NM, Havlíček, 1967