Rhynchotrema increbescens
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Description
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Rhynchonellata
Order: Rhynchonellida
Family: Rhynchotrematidae
Genus: Rhynchotrema (Hall, 1860)
Species: Rhynchotrema increbescens (Hall, 1847)
Specimen with both the brachial and pedicle valves. Medium, defined ribs (0.2 cm) and prominent sulcus (0.8 cm) and faint fold composed of four ribs (0.5 cm). Rounded anterior margin and rounded/triangular posterior margin. Plication near the commissure.
Specifications
| Object name | Rhynchotrema increbescens |
|---|---|
| ID | UNB-2018-0224 |
| Legal status | Permanent collection |
| Category | Fossil |
| Classification | Domain: Eukaryote Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Brachiopoda Class: Rhynchonellata |
| Composition | Calcium carbonate |
| Age | Eon: Phanerozoic Era: Paleozoic Period: Ordovician to Late Ordovician |
| Numeric age | 450 Mya |
| Origin | Ohio or Indiana, U.S.A. |
| Pieces | 1 |
| Partial | No |
| Measurements |
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Publications
- J. Hall. 1847. Containing descriptions of the organic remains of the lower division of the New York system (equivalent of the Lower Silurian rocks of Europe). Paleontology of New York 1:1-338