Echinoconchus Weller, 1914

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 : 894

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Echinoconchus Weller, 1914
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Genus Echinoconchus Weller, 1914

Type species: Productus punctatus Sowerby, 1822 , from the upper Visean of Derbyshire, England .

Remarks.— Echinoconchus differs from Pustula Thomas, 1914 , in the shape of muscle scars and in having stronger rugae bearing numerous rows of spines, the spines being of two series and concentrically arranged.

Thomas, I. 1914. British Carboniferous Producti - Pustula and Overtonia. Memoirs of the Geological Survey U. K., Palaeontology 1: 197 - 366.