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Pseudorugitela

Classification

    Phylum:  
    Class:  
Rhynchonellata
    Order:  
Terebratulida
    Superfamily:  
Kingenoidea
    Family:  
Aulacothyropsidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Pseudorugitela DAGYS, 1959b, p. 100
    Type Species:  
Waldheimia (Aulacothyris) pulchella BITTNER, 1890, p. 200, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 1459, 2a-dd. *P. pulchella (Bittner), Norian, Kuma River, northwestern Caucasus, a-d, dorsal, ventral, lateral, and anterior views, × 2 (Dagys, 1963), e-cc, serial transverse sections 0.0, 0.3, 0.6, 0.9, 1.3, 1.6, 1.8, 2.1, 2.3, 2.6, 3.0, 3.2, 3.5, 3.9, 4.2, 4.4, 5.0, 5.5, 5.7, 6.1, 6.5, 7.6, 8.9, 9.4, 10.3 mm from first section, × 2 (adapted from Dagys, 1959b), dd, loop reconstruction, × 4 (Dagys, 1974).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Alps, Carpathians, northwestern Caucasus, Pamirs, China


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Triassic (Carnian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Carnian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
237
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Triassic (Norian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Norian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
205.74


Description

Small, biconvex, rounded subpentagonal in outline, surface ornament of concentric rugae, anterior commissure rectimarginate, tending to anterior ligation, umbo short, erect, beak ridges distinct, foramen minute, mesothyrid, dental plates thin, parallel, and united to pedicle collar, dorsal septalium Y-shaped, loop similar to that of Aulacothyropsis but spinose only anteriorly




References



Museum or Author Information

Dagys, 1963, adapted from Dagys, 1959, Dagys, 1974