Preliminary data on plicathyridines (Brachiopoda) from the Frasnian of southern Belgium and the Middle East (Afghanistan, Iran)

in Documents scientifiques de l'Institut de Rabat (2013), 26

Lower Devonian rhynchonellid brachiopods from the Ougarta area (western Sahara, Algeria)

in Bulletin of Geosciences (2011), 86(1), 71-90

The description and study of rhynchonellid brachiopods recently collected from the Lower Devonian of the Ougarta area in western Algerian Sahara permitted the revision of previously described and/or ... [more ▼]

The description and study of rhynchonellid brachiopods recently collected from the Lower Devonian of the Ougarta area in western Algerian Sahara permitted the revision of previously described and/or listed taxa, mainly from Morocco. Palaeobiogeographically, the nine identified taxa share many similarities with the rhynchonellid fauna of the Ibarmaghian Domain. Five of the nine identified taxa belong to three genera of the Family Nucinulidae Sartenaer, 2004. Three of these are new taxa, namely Nucinulus orbignyanus crassicostus subsp. nov., Cuninulus ougartaensis sp. nov. and Palinulus saharaensis sp. nov. The our remaining taxa are assigned (one of them questionably) to the genera Lanceomyonia, Stenorhynchia and Glossinulus of the families Hebetoechiidae, Trigonirhynchiidae, and Glossinotoechiidae, respectively. [less ▲]

Découverte de nouveaux brachiopodes dans le Givetien (Dévonien) du Boulonnais (N. France)

in Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord (2008), 15 (2ème série)

Four brachiopod species from the upper Givetian of Ferques are described of which two are new: Cupularostrum minimum n. sp. (Rhynchonellida) and Cleiothyridina blacourti n. sp. (Athyridida). The third ... [more ▼]

Four brachiopod species from the upper Givetian of Ferques are described of which two are new: Cupularostrum minimum n. sp. (Rhynchonellida) and Cleiothyridina blacourti n. sp. (Athyridida). The third, which is assigned to Stringocephalus aff. fontanus Veevers, 1959, corresponds after revision to S. sp. (in Brice & Loones 2002) pro parte. The fourth is Stringodiscus giganteus (Sowerby, 1840) which is recorded for the first time in France. Material originates mainly from the Couderousse Member of the Blacourt Formation, dated by conodonts from the “Middle-Upper varcus Zone”, but exclusively for S. aff. fontanus and St. giganteus. Some rare specimens of C. minimum and Cl. blacourti have been collected in the lower part of the Bastien Member, upper part of the Blacourt Formation. Cl. blacourti is very common in the upper Givetian of Ferques, so the genus Cleiothyridina appears as soon as the upper Givetian as in Spain and not in the Famennian as it is reported in the “Treatise revised” (Alvarez & Rong, 2002). [less ▲]