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Catalog ID: CG-0008

Kozlowskia splendens

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Strophomenata
Order: Productida
Family: Productidae
Genus: Kozlowskia
Species: splendens

Geology

Period: Carboniferous
Group: Conemaugh
Formation: Glenshaw
Stratum: Brush Creek limestone

Taxonomic Authorities

  • Phylum Brachiopoda Duméril, 1805
  • Class Strophomenata Williams et al., 1996
  • Order Productida Sarycheva and Sokolskaya, 1959
  • Family Productidae Gray, 1840
  • Genus Kozlowskia Fredericks, 1933
  • Species Kozlowskia splendens (Norwood & Pratten, 1855)

References

  • Norwood, J. G., and Pratten, H. 1855. Notice of fossils from the Carboniferous Series of the western states, belonging to the genera Spirifer, Bellerophon, Pleurotomaria, Macrocheilus, Natica, and Loxonema, with descriptions of eight new characteristic species. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Second Series, 3:71–77.
  • Sarycheva, T. G., and Sokolskaya, A. V. N., 1959. O klassifikatsin lozhnoporistykh brakhiopod. Akademiia Nauk SSSR Doklady, 125: 181-184. (In Russian)
  • Williams, A., Carlson, S. J., Brunton, C. H. C., Holmer, L. E., and Popov, L. E. 1996. A supra-ordinal classification of the Brachiopoda. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 351:1171–1193.