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Quadrithyrina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Rhynchonellata
    Order:  
Spiriferida
    Superfamily:  
Reticularioidea
    Family:  
Xenomartiniidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Quadrithyrina HAVLÍČEK, 1959, p. 136
    Type Species:  
Q. ivanovae, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 1239, 1a-e. *Q. ivanovae, upper Emsian, Czech Republic, a-d, dorsal, ventral, anterior, lateral views, X3, e, transverse section, X2 (Havlíček, 1959).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Czech Republic, Turkestan, Australia (New South Wales, Queensland)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Devonian (Pragian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Pragian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
412.4
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Middle Devonian (Eifelian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Eifelian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
385.3


Description

Small or medium size, slightly transverse, with rounded cardinal extremities and almost catacline, high ventral interarea, fold and sulcus well developed, smooth, lateral plications lacking, microornament of concentric growth lines and radial capillae, high, narrow, ventral median septum and apical callus, lacking dental plates, crural plates short or obsolescent, ctenophoridium lacking.




References



Museum or Author Information

Havlíček, 1959