New data on Jurassic brachiopods |
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| Abstract: | The brachiopod genus Aulacothyris Douvillé of late Jurassic age was shown to possess a brachidial loop joined to the dorsal septum during early stages of growth. This genus therefore was excluded from the family Zeilleridae and assigned to the family Dallinidae of the superfamily Terebratelloidea. On the basis of similar external and internal characters, particularly loop development, Babanova suggested that the following brachiopod genera should be combined into a tribe, Aulacothyrini trib. nov.: Aulacothyropsis, Aulacothyris, Terebrataliopsis and Kafirnigania. Babanova also described a new rhynchonellid genus which he named Bilanainella, collected from beds of Callovian age outcropping in the eastern Crimean Mountains. — A. W. Norris. |
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