Home Plot Diversity Curves Tree of Life About Admin Login

Welcome to the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology!

Please enter a genera name to retrieve more information.

Search By:
and Class
and Order

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

(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.




References



Museum or Author Information

NIGP, Wang, Ching, & Fang, 1966