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Paramarginifera

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Strophomenata
    Order:  
Productida
    Superfamily:  
Productoidea
    Family:  
Productellidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Paramarginifera FREDERICKS, 1916, p. 61
    Type Species:  
Marginifera clarkei CHERNYSCHEV, 1902, p. 328, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 281, 1a-d. * P. clarkei (Tschernyschew), Permian, Schwagerina Limestone, Ural Mountains, $a, b$, anteroventral view, anterior view, $\\mathrm{X}_{1}, c, d$, posteroventral view, lateral view, XI (Muir-Wood & Cooper, 1960).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Ural Mountains, Inner Mongolia, northern China


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Permian (Asselian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Asselian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
298.89
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Permian (Artinskian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Artinskian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
283.3


Description

Medium size with pentagonal outline, profile concavoconvex, long trail with broadly nasute extension, median sulcus originates at umbo, ribbing complete, rugae weak on disks, six spines symmetrically disposed on ears, flanks, venter, cincture bordering ventral corpus, interior unknown.




References



Museum or Author Information

Muir-Wood & Cooper, 1960