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Kinnella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Rhynchonellata
    Order:  
Orthida
    Superfamily:  
Enteletoidea
    Family:  
Draboviidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Kinnella BERGSTRÖM, 1968, p. 11
    Type Species:  
Hirnantia? kielanae TEMPLE, 1965, p. 401, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 604, 1a-f. * K. kielanae (Temple), Ashgill, Poland, $a$, internal mold of ventral valve, x6.6, b$, internal mold of dorsal valve, X6.6, $c-e$, normal, lateral, posterior views of rubber replica of ventral exterior, x6.6$ (Temple, 1965), $f$, rubber replica of dorsal interior with attached ventral exterior, Sweden, X1 (Bergström, 1968).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

cosmopolitan


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Ordovician (Ashgill)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Katian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
66.7
    Beginning Date:  
447.72
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
lower Silurian (Llandovery)
    Ending International Stage:  
Telychian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
432.93


Description

Subcircular, small, dorsibiconvex, rectimarginate valves, ventral interarea subpyramidal, apsacline to procline, ventral interior with suboval muscle scar, dorsal interior with bilobed, crenulated cardinal process




References



Museum or Author Information

Temple, 1965, Bergström, 1968