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Tschernyschewia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Brachiopoda
    Class:  
Strophomenata
    Order:  
Productida
    Superfamily:  
Aulostegoidea
    Family:  
Scacchinellidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Tschernyschewia STOYANOW, 1910, p. 853
    Type Species:  
T. typica, OD


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Fossil Image
Fig. 436, 3a-e. T. ypica, Dzhulfian, Armenia; a–c, specimen viewed ventrally, dorsally, laterally, × 1; d, dorsal view of specimen cut at beak showing cardinal process, median septum, × 1; e, longitudinal section of specimen showing large ventral median septum, ×1 (Muir-Wood & Cooper, 1960).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

southern Europe, China


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Permian (Capitanian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Capitanian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
264.34
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Permian (Capitanian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Capitanian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
259.55


Description

Smaller medium size with subcircular corpus outline, short trails, cicatrix small, variable, hinge narrow with short interareas, external ornament somewhat resembling Waagenoconcha, internally with high ventral median septum fitting between lobes of cardinal process




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