A NEW SPECIES OF CYRTOSPIRIFER (BRACHIOPODA) FROM THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN OF THE WESTERN SAHARA (NORTHWESTERN AFRICA)

A NEW SPECIES OF CYRTOSPIRIFER (BRACHIOPODA) FROM THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN OF THE WESTERN SAHARA (NORTHWESTERN AFRICA)

A new species of Cyrtospirifer is described from the Middle to Upper Givetian of the Western Sahara (Northwest Africa). Cyrtospirifer tindoufensis new species differs in its smaller number and coarser medial and flank plications and equibiconvex shell profile from the other Givetian species of Cyrto...

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Main Author: MENA SCHEMM-GREGORY
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2011-03-01
Series:Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia
Subjects:
Cyrtospirifer
Brachiopoda
Phylogeny
Palaeobiogeography
Givetian
Devonian
Western Sahara
Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/5959

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