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Apodosia, an enigmatic new genus of micromorphic brachiopod from the Cretaceous of Crimea, Ukraine, and the Jurassic of England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

T. N. Smirnova  and
D. I. Mackinnon
T. N. Smirnova
Affiliation:
Paleontology Department, Geological Faculty, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 117234 Moscow, Russia
D. I. Mackinnon
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Abstract

The morphology of Argyrotheca lorioli Smirnova, 1972, from the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian) of Crimea, Ukraine, was reinvestigated using SEM, found to be impunctate, and reassigned as the type species of a new genus Apodosia, new family Apodosiidae, order ?Rhynchonellida. Another micromorphic brachiopod, Spiriferina? oolitica (Moore, 1855) from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Inferior Oolite of Somerset, England, is also reassigned to the new genus.

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Research Article
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 69 , Issue 4 , July 1995 , pp. 686 - 692
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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