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Carringtonia Brunton and Mundy, 1986

Carniti, Alessandro P., Porta, Giovanna Della, Banks, Vanessa J., Stephenson, Michael H. & Angiolini, Lucia, 2022, Brachiopod fauna from uppermost Visean (Mississippian) mud mounds in Derbyshire, UK, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 67 (4), pp. 865-915 : 886

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 Carringtonia Brunton and Mundy, 1986
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Genus Carringtonia Brunton and Mundy, 1986

Type species: Productus carringtoniana Davidson, 1862 a , from the Visean of Great Britain and Ireland .

Remarks.—The genus differs from other Mississippian productellids in having an ornamentation dominated by dense, irregular rugae. The genus differs from Orbinaria Muir-Wood and Cooper, 1960 , from the Mississippian of USA, in having a more prominent concentric ornamentation and spines restricted to the ventral valve.

Brunton, C. H. C. and Mundy, D. C. J. 1986. Some Dinantian chonopectinid productaceans (Brachiopoda) from the British Isles. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 46: 1 - 10.

Davidson, T. 1860 b - 1862 b. Monographie of Scottish Carboniferous Brachiopoda. 76 pp. Geologists Office, London.

Muir-Wood, H. M. and Cooper, G. A 1960. Morphology, classification and life history of the Productoidea. Memoir of the Geological Society of America 81: 1 - 447.

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