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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              
              
            
            Images
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                  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              
              
            
            
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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              
              Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
                  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              
              