Diagnoza

Medium-sized to rather large semielliptic shell outline; acute postero-lateral angles; clearly parvicostellate ornamentation; 3-8 (predominatingly 5-6) striae between each two costellae.

Porównanie

Conspecificity of the Late Devonian specimens reported by Gurich (1896) and Sobolew (1909) from Kadzielnia is doubtful.

Autekologia

Występowanie geograficzne

Russia (Ural, Kuznetsk), Spain, Germany, Belgium, England, France, Turkestan, Afghanistan, China; in Poland in Skały (various outcrops).

Zasięg czasowy

Early Devonian (Emsian) to Upper Devonian

Materiały muzealne

Many specimens from Russia (Ural, Kuznetsk), Spain, Germany, Belgium, England, France, Turkestan, Afghanistan, China; 25 specimens from Poland (ZPAL; L-PZ-D).

Literatura

Biernat, G. 1954. Ramienionogi z eiflu Grzegorzowic (Brachiopods from  the Couvinian of Grzegorzowice). Acta Geoogica Polonica 4 (4), 485-533.

Gürich, G. 1896. Das Palaozoicum im Polnischen Mittelgebirge. Verh. Russ. Kais. Miner.  Ges.Si.-Petersburg, ser. 2,32,  1·539,  St.-Petersburg.

Halamski, A.T. 2009. Middle Devonian Brachiopods from the northern Part of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland in relation to selected coeval faunas. Part One: Introduction, Lingulida, Craniida, Strophomenida, Productida, Protorthida, Orthida. Palaeontographica Abteilung A, 287: 41-98.

Kayser, E. 1871. Die Brachiopoden des Mittel-und Oberdevons der Eifels. Ztschr. deutsch. Geol. Ges.,23, 491-647, Berlin.

Phillips, J. 1841. Figure sand descriptions of the Palaeozoic fossils of Cornwall, Devon and  West Somerset. 52-92, London.

Sobolev, D. 1909. Srednij Devon kelecko-sandomirskogo kriaza. Mat. Geol. Ros., 24,1-536,  St. Petersburg.