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Syringothyris
Classification
Phylum:
Brachiopoda
Class:
Rhynchonellata
Order:
Spiriferinida
Superfamily:
Syringothyridoidea
Family:
Syringothyrididae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Syringothyris WINCHELL, 1863, p. 6
Type Species:
S. typa, SD ICZN Opinion 100, 1928, p. 12, =Spirifer carteri HALL, 1857, p. 170
Images
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Fig. 1262a-d. *S. carteri (Hall), upper Tournaisian, Iowa, USA, posterior, lateral, anterior, and dorsal views, X1 (Weller, 1914)., ——Fig. 1262e. S. bedfordensis Hyde, upper Famennian, Ohio, USA, ventral interior, X1 (Hyde, 1953).
Synonyms
Syringopleura, Prosyringothyris, Protosyringothyris
Geographic Distribution
cosmopolitan
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Devonian (upper Famennian)
Beginning International Stage:
Famennian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
50
Beginning Date:
365.2
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Carboniferous (Mississippian)
Ending International Stage:
Serpukhovian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
323.4
Description
Dental adminicula long, subparallel, pedicle valve often subconical or hemipyramidal with high, flattened interarea, beak straight or rarely slightly incurved, delthyrium largely covered by stegidial plates, forming tubular foramen in some species, perideltidial areas well developed
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Classification
Phylum:
Brachiopoda
Class:
Rhynchonellata
Order:
Spiriferinida
Superfamily:
Syringothyridoidea
Family:
Syringothyrididae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Syringothyris WINCHELL, 1863, p. 6
Type Species:
S. typa, SD ICZN Opinion 100, 1928, p. 12, =Spirifer carteri HALL, 1857, p. 170
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 1262a-d. *S. carteri (Hall), upper Tournaisian, Iowa, USA, posterior, lateral, anterior, and dorsal views, X1 (Weller, 1914)., ——Fig. 1262e. S. bedfordensis Hyde, upper Famennian, Ohio, USA, ventral interior, X1 (Hyde, 1953).
Synonyms
Syringopleura, Prosyringothyris, Protosyringothyris
Geographic Distribution
cosmopolitan
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Upper Devonian (upper Famennian)
Beginning International Stage:
Famennian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
50
Beginning Date:
365.2
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Carboniferous (Mississippian)
Ending International Stage:
Serpukhovian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
323.4
Description
Dental adminicula long, subparallel, pedicle valve often subconical or hemipyramidal with high, flattened interarea, beak straight or rarely slightly incurved, delthyrium largely covered by stegidial plates, forming tubular foramen in some species, perideltidial areas well developed