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Rhytiophora
Classification
Phylum:
Brachiopoda
Class:
Strophomenata
Order:
Productida
Superfamily:
Productoidea
Family:
Productellidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Rhytiophora Muir-Wood & COOPER, 1960, p. 192
Type Species:
Productus blairi MILLER, 1891, p. 689, OD
Images
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Fig. 307, 4a-d. $* R$. blairi (Miller), middle Hastarian, Missouri, $a-c$, ventral, dorsal, lateral views of shell, $X_{1}, d$, half of dorsal valve interior completed by mirror image, x2}^{\\mathbf{X}}$ (Muir-Wood & Cooper, 1960).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
USA, Central America, northwestern Australia, ?central China
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Lower Carboniferous (middle Hastarian)
Beginning International Stage:
Tournaisian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
27
Beginning Date:
355.91
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Lower Carboniferous (middle Hastarian)
Ending International Stage:
Tournaisian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
54
Ending Date:
352.51
Description
Subquadrate outline, rugae irregular, weak ventromedianly, trail short, ribbed, spine ridges ventrally, especially anteriorly, spines numerous, dorsally only anteriorly, lateral ridges extend to separate ears from corpus
References
Museum or Author Information
Classification
Phylum:
Brachiopoda
Class:
Strophomenata
Order:
Productida
Superfamily:
Productoidea
Family:
Productellidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Rhytiophora Muir-Wood & COOPER, 1960, p. 192
Type Species:
Productus blairi MILLER, 1891, p. 689, OD
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 307, 4a-d. $* R$. blairi (Miller), middle Hastarian, Missouri, $a-c$, ventral, dorsal, lateral views of shell, $X_{1}, d$, half of dorsal valve interior completed by mirror image, x2}^{\\mathbf{X}}$ (Muir-Wood & Cooper, 1960).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
USA, Central America, northwestern Australia, ?central China
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Lower Carboniferous (middle Hastarian)
Beginning International Stage:
Tournaisian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
27
Beginning Date:
355.91
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Lower Carboniferous (middle Hastarian)
Ending International Stage:
Tournaisian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
54
Ending Date:
352.51
Description
Subquadrate outline, rugae irregular, weak ventromedianly, trail short, ribbed, spine ridges ventrally, especially anteriorly, spines numerous, dorsally only anteriorly, lateral ridges extend to separate ears from corpus