The lower Carboniferous Brachiopod genus Levitusia Muir-Wood, H.M. and Cooper, G.A., 1960 from Western Europe and the U.S.S.R.
Brunton, C.H.C. (1979). The lower Carboniferous Brachiopod genus Levitusia Muir-Wood, H.M. and Cooper, G.A., 1960 from Western Europe and the U.S.S.R. Bull. Kon. Belg. Inst. Natuurwet. Aardwet. = Bull. - Inst. r. sci. nat. Belg., Sci. Terre 51(10): 23 pp., 5 pls
In: Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. Aardwetenschappen = Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Sciences de la Terre. KBIN: Brussel. ISSN 0374-6291, more
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| Keywords |
British Isles, England, Derby
British Isles, England, West Midlands
Geological time > Phanerozoic > Paleozoic > Palaeozoic > Carboniferous
Russia
Russia, Urals Mts.
Brachiopoda [WoRMS]
Derby [Marine Regions]; Russia [Marine Regions]; West Midlands [Marine Regions]; Western Europe [Marine Regions]
Marine/Coastal |
| Abstract |
The genus Levitusia MUIR-WOOD, H.M. and COOPER, G.A., 1960 isrevised and details of the shell microstructure are presented enablingthe shell material of Productacea and Chonetacea to be distinguished.The western European species L. burnerosa (SOWERBY, J., 1822), the typespecies (with which L. christiani (DE KONINCK, L., 1847) is placed intosynonymy), L. sublaevis (DE KONINCK, L., 1843) and L. spinauris n. sp.from Staffordshire, England, are described. Species from the U.S.S.R. arediscussed, in particular L. hyperborea from the Urals. |
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