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Septaliphorioidea

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Rhynchonellata
    Order:  
Rhynchonellida
    Superfamily:  
Wellerelloidea
    Family:  
Allorhynchidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Septaliphorioidea Yang & XU, 1966, p. 29101
    Type Species:  
S. paucicostata, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 865, 5a-l. $* S$. paucicostata, paratype, Gheizhou, $a-d$, dorsal, lateral, anterior, ventral views, MCMB DDR3C3, x2$, $e-l$, transverse serial sections, distances in mm from ventral umbo, 0.3, 0.7, 0.9, 1.1, 1.25, 1.4, 1.7, 2.0, MCMB DDR III D3-2 (Yang & Xu, 1966).


Synonyms

Septaliphoroidea


Geographic Distribution

western China


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Middle Triassic (Anisian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Anisian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
246.7
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Middle Triassic (Anisian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Anisian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
241.46


Description

Small, roundly triangular to subpentagonal, depressed subequibiconvex, uniplicate, ventral sulcus and dorsal fold well developed, fold flattopped and truncated at front, covered with plicae, bifurcating on dorsal but intercalating on ventral valve, rounded costae, extending from umbo, 2 to 4 on fold, 3 to 4 on lateral slopes, beak straight to slightly incurved, narrow deltidial plates. Dental plates short, hinge plates divided, median ridge weak and low, septalium absent.




References



Museum or Author Information

Yang & Xu, 1966