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Parareticularia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Rhynchonellata
    Order:  
Spiriferida
    Superfamily:  
Reticularioidea
    Family:  
Reticulariidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Parareticularia Li & GU, 1976, p. 298
    Type Species:  
P. spiriferiformis, OD


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Fig. 1229, 3a-e. * P. spiriferiformis, ventral, dorsal, anterior, posterior, and lateral views, X1 (Li & Gu, 1976).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

China


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Permian (Cisuralian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Asselian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
298.89
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Permian (Cisuralian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Kungurian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
274.37


Description

Small to medium size, outline transversely spiriferoid with widely extended lateral extremities, ventral interarea moderately high, delthyrium wide, open, fold and sulcus strongly developed, lateral slopes with pair of wide shallow sulci, ornament consisting of lamellose growth lamellae fringed with numerous fine, uniramous, radial spines, ventral interior with short dental adminicula and long median ridge, dorsal interior lacking median ridge or septum




References



Museum or Author Information

Li & Gu, 1976