Silurian and Devonian brachiopods from Severnaya Zemlya (Russian Arctic)
Author
Modzalevskaya, Tatiana L.
All-Russia Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), Srednij pr. 74, St. Petersburg, 199106 (Russia) modz @ IB 2567. spb. edu.
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Geodiversitas
2003
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5375016
1638-9395
5375016
Pentlandina
? sp. (
Fig. 4
)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — A single shell, embedded in rock matrix, from loc. 29a, Lednikovaya River, October Revolution Island (
Männik
et al
. 2002
: fig. 1); Vodopad Formation.
REMARKS
A single small shell (L =
6.7 mm
, W =
1.1 mm
) with biconvex profile, semielliptical outline, deep ventral sinus, and prominent dorsal sulcus is attributed to
Pentlandina
? sp. The hinge line is shorter than the maximum width. The ventral interarea has a large delthyrium, closed by pseudodeltidium. A small chilidium is filled by a bilobate cardinal process. Ornament is parvicostellate with new ribs intercalating. Shells of
Pentlandina
from the middle Llandovery of West Shropshire have the same size and shape (
Cocks 1968: 293
, pl. I, fig. 13). However, the specimens from Severnaya Zemlya lack any sign of the ventral muscle field well visible on the shells from Shropshire.
FIG. 5. —
Brachyprion ruminatus
n. sp.
;
A
,
B
, pedicle valve (holotype N 9/12991), loc. 11, bed 14A, Samojlovich Formation;
A
, ventral view;
B
, lateral view;
C
, ventral view of an internal mould of a pedicle valve (N 10/12991), loc. 11, bed 14, Samojlovich Formation;
D
, ventral view of an internal mould of a pedicle valve with well developed impressions of concentric rugae (N 11/12991);
E
, note the radially arranged pseudopunctae at anterior margin (N 12/12991), loc. 11, bed 20, Samojlovich Formation. Scale bars: A, B, D, 6 mm; C, 5 mm; E, 2 mm.
Family
STROPHEODONTIDAE Caster, 1939