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Nalivkinia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Rhynchonellata
    Order:  
Atrypida
    Superfamily:  
Atrypoidea
    Family:  
Atrypinidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Nalivkinia BUBLICHENKO, 1927, p. 982
    Type Species:  
Atrypa gruenewaldtiaeformis von PEETZ, 1901, p. 147, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 965, 3a-f. *N. gruenewaldtiaeformis (von Peetz), Wenlock, Kuznetsk basin, $a-c$, dorsal, lateral, posterior views, x2$, $d-f$, serial sections, x5$ (Copper, 1977a).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

southern Siberia, Altai


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Silurian (upper Llandovery)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Telychian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
438.59
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Silurian (Ludlow)
    Ending International Stage:  
Ludfordian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
422.73


Description

Medium to large, globose, strongly biconvex; small, hypercline area; foramen transapical or obscured, absent; deltidial plates absent in adult shell; ribs fine; abundant, very short, growth lamellae or growth interruptions; commissure rectimarginate to weakly plicate; interior with large dental cavities; short, dorsoventrally oriented teeth; delicate socket plates; small bushy crura; spiralia dorsomedial, fewer than 6 whorls, jugal processes straight, nearly touching. [Distinguished from other clintonellinids by large size, incurved beak, presence of short concentric growth lamellae, distinguished from Tibetatrypa by large dental cavities, thinner shell, delicate socket plates, absence of strong anterior fold.]




References



Museum or Author Information

Copper, 1977