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Peregrinella

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Rhynchonellata
    Order:  
Rhynchonellida
    Superfamily:  
Dimerelloidea
    Family:  
Peregrinellidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Peregrinella OEHLERT, 1887a, p. 1305
    Type Species:  
Terebratula peregrina von Buch, 1834, p. 73, OD; = Terebratula multicarinata Lamarck, 1819, p. 253, non SCHLOTHEIM, 1813


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Fig. 843 a–n. *P. (P.) multicarinata (L AMARCK ), Hauterivian, France; a–c, dorsal, lateral, anterior views, ×1 (new); d–n, transverse serial sections, distances in mm from ventral umbo, 2.5, 3.2, 3.7, 4.1, 4.9, 5.2, 5.6, 5.9, 6.2, 7.4, 12.6, approximately ×2 (Ager, 1968).


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Geographic Distribution

Europe (mainly southern), North America, Asia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Berriasian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
143.1
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cretaceous (Hauterivian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Hauterivian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
126.5


Description

Large, circular, equibiconvex to ventribiconvex, rectimarginate, costae numerous, deeply incised, sharp, beak massive, incurved. Hinge plates wide, flat, dental plates short, acutely divergent ventrally, teeth small, peglike, crura long, subparallel, laterally concave, septum low, long. Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian-Hauterivian): Europe (mainly southern), North America, Asia.




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