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Onniella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Rhynchonellata
    Order:  
Orthida
    Superfamily:  
Dalmanelloidea
    Family:  
Dalmanellidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Onniella Bancroft, 1928a, p. 55
    Type Species:  
O. broeggeri, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 569, 1a-d. $* O$. broeggeri, Caradoc, Shropshire, $a, b$, ventral, dorsal views of conjoined valves, x1.5$, c, internal mold of ventral valve, x1.5$ (Cocks, new), $d$, internal mold of dorsal valve, x2.5$ (Hurst, 1979)., Fig. 569, 1e-g. O. reuschi, Caradoc, Shropshire, e, internal mold of ventral valve, x2, f$, internal mold of dorsal valve, $\\mathbf{X}_{\\mathbf{3}}$ (Cocks, new), $g$, rubber replica of dorsal interior, x1.5$ (Wright, 1965a).


Synonyms

Soudleyella, Bagnorthis


Geographic Distribution

cosmopolitan


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Ordovician (Llanvirn)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Dapingian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
471.26
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
lower Silurian (Llandovery)
    Ending International Stage:  
Telychian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
432.93


Description

Subquadrate, ventribiconvex valves, ventral interior with widely cordate ventral muscle scar and recessive dental plates, dorsal interior with undifferentiated, swollen, bilobed cardinal process, brachiophore plates widely divergent ventrally




References



Museum or Author Information

Hurst, 1979, Wright, 1965