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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scientific name	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.

References

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

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Brachiopoda
Family	Echinoconchidae

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