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Nudirostralina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Rhynchonellata
    Order:  
Rhynchonellida
    Superfamily:  
Rhynchonelloidea
    Family:  
Rhynchonellidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Nudirostralina Yang & XU, 1966, p. 21
    Type Species:  
N. subtrinodosi, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 873, 4 a-l. * N. subtrinodosi, Anisian, Guizhou, a-d, holotype, dorsal, lateral, anterior, ventral views, MCMB DDR IA4-2, × 1, e-l, paratype, transverse serial sections, distances in mm from ventral umbo, 0.2, 0.9, 1.3, 1.5, 1.8, 2.05, 2.2, 2.4, MCMB DDR Ia4-4 (Yang & Xu, 1966).


Synonyms

Nudirostrolina, Nudirostrlina


Geographic Distribution

China (Guizhou, Qinghai, Tibet), ?India


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Triassic
    Beginning International Stage:  
Induan
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
251.9
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Triassic
    Ending International Stage:  
Rhaetian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
201.36


Description

Medium size, subtrigonal to subpentagonal, dorsibiconvex to gently everted, ventral sulcus and dorsal fold well marked anteriorly, commissure uniplicate, bidentate to multidentate, shell completely smooth posteriorly and with only few short plicae anteriorly and laterally, 2 to 5 on fold, usually 2 on each lateral slope, beak small, slightly incurved, deltidial plates small, covering delthyrium, hypothyrid to submesothyrid. Dental plates ventrally divergent, dorsal median septum short, supporting septalium, crura short, ventrally curved.




References



Museum or Author Information

Yang & Xu, 1966