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Martiniopsis

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Rhynchonellata
    Order:  
Spiriferida
    Superfamily:  
Martinioidea
    Family:  
Ingelarellidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Martiniopsis WAAGEN, 1883a, p. 524
    Type Species:  
* M. inflata, SD Etheridge in Jack & ETHERIDGE, 1892, p. 238


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Fig. 1157, 1a-d. * M. inflata, Lopingian, Pakistan, ventral, dorsal, lateral, and anterior views, X1 (Waagen, 1883a).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Europe, Asia


Age Range

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


Description

Small to medium size, outline subovate, ventral interarea very small, narrow, delthyrium open, fold and sulcus weakly to moderately developed or absent, macroornament absent, microornament of fine, elongate pits or grooves and fine, regular growth lines, ventral interior with long, slender, closely set, subparallel dental adminicula, dorsal interior with short to long adminicula




References



Museum or Author Information

Waagen, 1883