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Kiangsiella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Strophomenata
    Order:  
Orthotetida
    Superfamily:  
Orthotetoidea
    Family:  
Schuchertellidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Kiangsiella Grabau in CHAO, 1927a, p. 103
    Type Species:  
Orthotetes tingi GRABAU, 1924, p. 359, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 482, 2a-d. *K. tingi (Grabau), Lower Permian, southern Kiangsi, China, holotype, ventral, dorsal, lateral, anterior views of shell, X1 (Chao, 1927a).’


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Asia, Australia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Carboniferous
    Beginning International Stage:  
Bashkirian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
323.4
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Permian
    Ending International Stage:  
Changhsingian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
251.9


Description

Similar to Streptorhynchus but with strong, secondary costation and with well-developed median ridge at base of cardinal process, dorsal adductor scar impressed about low myophragm




References



Museum or Author Information

Chao, 1927