Published November 19, 2014 | Version v1
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Seductorithyris Sandy & Hryniewicz & Hammer & Nakrem & Little 2014, gen. nov.

  • 1. Department of Geology, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469 - 2364, USA. E-mail: msandy 1 @ udayton. edu
  • 2. Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, P. O. Box 1172, NO- 0318 Oslo, Norway. & Current address: Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Twarda 51 / 55, 00 - 818 Warszawa, Poland.
  • 3. Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, P. O. Box 1172, NO- 0318 Oslo, Norway.
  • 4. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS 2 9 JT, United Kingdom.

Description

Genus Seductorithyris gen. nov.

Diagnosis. Round outline, with the dorsal valve almost circular. Profile equi- to gently ventribiconvex. Smooth shell with growth lines. Erect beak. Ventral valve umbo keeled. Lateral commissure straight, anterior commissure rectimarginate. Internal structures: cardinal process present, flat/horizontal and wide hinge plates deflect dorsally, crural bases develop on inner margin of hinge plates, clubbed and weakly deflected dorsally. Transverse band curved, low-arched, and approximately at mid-point of brachidium, anterior flanges long.

Etymology. For the deceptive way that homoeomorphy among brachiopods may mask their affinities (deceiver—latin seductor).

Occurrence. Uppermost Ryazanian of Spitsbergen.

Type species. Seductorithyris septemtrionalis sp. nov.

Notes

Published as part of Sandy, Michael R., Hryniewicz, Krzysztof, Hammer, Øyvind, Nakrem, Hans Arne & Little, Crispin T. S., 2014, Brachiopods from Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep deposits, central Spitsbergen, Svalbard, pp. 501-532 in Zootaxa 3884 (6) on page 522, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.6.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4951742

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