Valdiviathyris
Valdiviathyris Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
Class: | Craniata |
Order: | Craniida |
Family: | Craniidae |
Genus: | Valdiviathyris Helmcke, 1940 [1] |
Type species | |
Valdiviathyris quenstedti Helmcke, 1940 [1]
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Species | |
Valdiviathyris is a genus of
It was initially known only from the holotype collected from the southern Indian Ocean, near Île Saint-Paul, at a depth of 672 metres (2,205 ft).[4] The specimen is considered to be adolescent and has a thin (0.1 mm (100 μm; 3.9-thou) thick) calcareous dorsal valve. This has an irregular conical shape, with the tip (or apex) not coinciding with the middle, and is on the outside only adorned by growth lines. On the inside it has pits (or punctae) that branch into four or five canals further to the outside. More recent specimens have been found near New Zealand. Since no fossils of Vadiviathyris have yet been found dating between the Silurian and the Eocene, this genus is currently regarded as a Lazarus taxon.[2]
References
- ^ a b Christian Emig (2013). Emig CC (ed.). "Valdiviathyris Helmcke, 1940". World Brachiopoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
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- ^ a b A. J. Rowell (1961). "The brachiopod genus Valdiviathyris Helmcke, 1940" (PDF). Palaeontology. 4 (4): 542–545.