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Glottidia
Classification
Phylum:
Brachiopoda
Class:
Lingulata
Order:
Lingulida
Superfamily:
Linguloidea
Family:
Lingulidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Glottidia DALL, 1870, p. 157
Type Species:
Lingula albida HINDS, 1844, p. 71, OD
Images
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Fig. 9, 2a-c. *G. albida (Hinds), Holocene, Anaheim Bay, California, $a$, dorsal valve exterior, $\\mathrm{X} 1.8, b, c$, ventral, dorsal valve interior, MCZ 4423, X2.8 (new)."
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Antarctica, Cretaceous; Europe, Tertiary; North America, Tertiary-Holocene; South America, Holocene
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Cretaceous, Tertiary
Beginning International Stage:
Berriasian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
143.1
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Holocene
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Shell strongly elongate, ventral pseudointerarea small, with vestigial propareas and pedicle groove, ventral visceral area extending somewhat anterior to midvalve, with posterolateral margins bounded by two divergent septa, serving as places of attachment for oblique muscles and support of body wall, pedicle nerve curving around unpaired umbonal muscle scar, dorsal visceral area with median septum extending from umbonal to transmedian muscles, mantle canal system with papillae, vascula media absent
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Brachiopoda
Class:
Lingulata
Order:
Lingulida
Superfamily:
Linguloidea
Family:
Lingulidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Glottidia DALL, 1870, p. 157
Type Species:
Lingula albida HINDS, 1844, p. 71, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 9, 2a-c. *G. albida (Hinds), Holocene, Anaheim Bay, California, $a$, dorsal valve exterior, $\\mathrm{X} 1.8, b, c$, ventral, dorsal valve interior, MCZ 4423, X2.8 (new)."
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Antarctica, Cretaceous; Europe, Tertiary; North America, Tertiary-Holocene; South America, Holocene
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Cretaceous, Tertiary
Beginning International Stage:
Berriasian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
143.1
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Holocene
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Shell strongly elongate, ventral pseudointerarea small, with vestigial propareas and pedicle groove, ventral visceral area extending somewhat anterior to midvalve, with posterolateral margins bounded by two divergent septa, serving as places of attachment for oblique muscles and support of body wall, pedicle nerve curving around unpaired umbonal muscle scar, dorsal visceral area with median septum extending from umbonal to transmedian muscles, mantle canal system with papillae, vascula media absent