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Juresania

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Strophomenata
    Order:  
Productida
    Superfamily:  
Echinoconchoidea
    Family:  
Echinoconchidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Juresania FREDERICKS, 1928, p. 786
    Type Species:  
Productus juresanensis CHERNYSCHEV, 1902, p. 276, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 352, 3a-e. *J. juresanensis (Tschernyschew), Schwagerina Limestone, Juresan River, Russia, $a, b$, syntype, specimen viewed posteriorly, laterally, $\\mathrm{X}_{1}$ (Muir-Wood & Cooper, 1960), $c$, anteroventral view of ventral valve, $X_{1}, d$, detail of ventral trail, $X_{3}$ (Lazarev, 1990), $e$, dorsoposterior view of shell with dorsal valve removed, showing short convergent buttress plates (arrow), $\\times_{3}$ (new)."


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Arctic Eurasia, western Himalayas


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
upper Upper Carboniferous (Kasimovian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Kasimovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
307.02
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Permian (Asselian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Asselian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
293.52


Description

"Smaller medium size, subquadrate outline with hinge forming widest part, ventral profile weakly geniculate, median sulcation weak, ventral disk with elongate spine bases arranged quincuncially, anterior to disk (trail) nonrugose bands with differentiated spines, elongate thicker spines posteriorly, thinner recumbent spines anteriorly, buttress plates converge anteriorly to median septum."




References



Museum or Author Information

Muir-Wood & Cooper, 1960, Lazarev, 1990