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Gondolina
Classification
Phylum:
Brachiopoda
Class:
Strophomenata
Order:
Productida
Superfamily:
Aulostegoidea
Family:
Aulostegidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Gondolina Ching Yu-gan & Liao Zhao-ting in Wang Yu, Ching Yu-gan, & Fang DA-WEI, 1966, p. 412
Type Species:
G. weiningensis, OD
Images
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Fig. $433 a-c$. *G. weiningensis, lower Serpukhovian, Guizhou, holotype, viewed ventrally, dorsally, laterally, NIGP 22444, X0.75 (Wang, Ching, & Fang, 1966).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
China
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Lower Carboniferous (upper Viséan)
Beginning International Stage:
Visean
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
66
Beginning Date:
335.91
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Lower Carboniferous (lower Serpukhovian)
Ending International Stage:
Serpukhovian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
50
Ending Date:
326.87
Description
Resembles Striatifera in outline, but with extended ventral umbo, long triangular interarea, rugae irregular, interrupting ribbing, spines thin, rhizoid, in clusters on umbonal flanks and unknown elsewhere. Lower Carboniferous (upper Viséan-lower Serpukhovian): China.
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Brachiopoda
Class:
Strophomenata
Order:
Productida
Superfamily:
Aulostegoidea
Family:
Aulostegidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Gondolina Ching Yu-gan & Liao Zhao-ting in Wang Yu, Ching Yu-gan, & Fang DA-WEI, 1966, p. 412
Type Species:
G. weiningensis, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. $433 a-c$. *G. weiningensis, lower Serpukhovian, Guizhou, holotype, viewed ventrally, dorsally, laterally, NIGP 22444, X0.75 (Wang, Ching, & Fang, 1966).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
China
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Lower Carboniferous (upper Viséan)
Beginning International Stage:
Visean
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
66
Beginning Date:
335.91
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Lower Carboniferous (lower Serpukhovian)
Ending International Stage:
Serpukhovian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
50
Ending Date:
326.87
Description
Resembles Striatifera in outline, but with extended ventral umbo, long triangular interarea, rugae irregular, interrupting ribbing, spines thin, rhizoid, in clusters on umbonal flanks and unknown elsewhere. Lower Carboniferous (upper Viséan-lower Serpukhovian): China.