Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-q99xh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T19:22:50.607Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Shell structure of Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous craniids (Brachiopoda) and its systematic significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

T. N. Smirnova*
Affiliation:
Paleontology Department, Geological Faculty, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 119899 GSP-3, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

Shell structure has been studied in two species of the family Craniidae Menke, 1828, from the Upper Jurassic of East Ukraine and from the Lower Cretaceous of Crimea, South Ukraine. These species belong to the new genus MesocraniaM. barskovi (Smirnova, 1972) and M. condylata new species. A layer of coarse regular rhomboidal crystallites was discovered between the primary layer of acicular crystallites and the secondary laminar layer. Branching punctae canals were observed in M. barskovi.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Barczyk, W. 1968. On some representatives of the genus Craniscus (Brachiopoda) from Upper Jurassic of Baltow Border of the Holy Cross Mountains in Poland. Prace Muzeum Ziemi, 12:177186.Google Scholar
Blochmann, F. 1892. Untersuchungen uber den Bau der Brachiopoden. 1. Die anatomie von Crania anomala, Otto Friderick Muller. Jena. 65 p.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cooper, G. A. 1955. New Cretaceous Brachiopoda from Arizona. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 131(4):18 p.Google Scholar
Dall, W. H. 1871. Report on the Brachiopoda obtained by the United States coast survey expedition in charge of L. F. de Pourtales with a revision of the Craniidae and Discinidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 3(1):45 p.Google Scholar
Dall, W. H. 1920. Annotated List of the Recent Brachiopoda in the Collection of the United States National Museum, with descriptions of thirty-three new forms. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 57:261377.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Davidson, T. 1851–1852. British Oolitic and Liassic Brachiopoda. Palaeontographical Society Monograph, p. 1100.Google Scholar
Defrance, E. 1818. Cranie (Foss.). In Levrault, F. G. (ed.), Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Paris, 11:312314.Google Scholar
Helmcke, J. G. 1940. Die Brachiopoden Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition 1898-1899, 24:215316.Google Scholar
Joubin, L.Brachiopodes. Resultats du voyage du S. Y. Belgicaen 1897-1898-1899. Zoologie. Anvers, 11 p.Google Scholar
Koken, E. F. R. 1889. Ueber die entwickelung der Gastropoden vocambrium bis zur trias. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie, B(6):305484.Google Scholar
Kusmicheva, E. I. 1965. Stratigrafischeskoe i fazialnoe rasprostranenie shestiluchevykh korallov (skleraktinij) v neokome gornogo Kryma (The stratigraphic and facial distribution of the Hexacoralla (Scleractinia) in the Neocomian of the mountain Crimea). Pryrodnye i trudovy resursy levoberezhnoj Ukrainy i ikh ispolzovanie. Geologiya i poleznye iskopaemye, 6:5863. [In Russian.]Google Scholar
Lee, D. E. 1987. Cenozoic and Recent Inarticulate Brachiopods of New Zealand: Discinisca, Pelagodiscus and Neocrania. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 17:4972.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lee, D. E., and Brunton, C. H. C. 1986. Neocrania n. gen. and a revision of Cretaceous-Recent brachiopod genera in the family Craniidae. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology), 404:141160.Google Scholar
Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae. (tenth edition). Stockholm, Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, 824.Google Scholar
Makridin, V. P. 1964. Brakhiopody Yurskikh otlozhenij Russkoj Platformy i nekotorykh prilezhashikh k nej oblastej (The brachiopods of the Jurassic deposits of the Russian Platform and some adjacent districts). Nedra. Moscow. 295 p. [In Russian]Google Scholar
M'Coy, F. 1851. On some new cambro—silurian fossils. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 2:387409.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Menke, C. T. 1828. Synopsis methodica molluscorum generum omniumet specierum carum quae in Museo menkeano adservantur, Pyrmonti, 91 p.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Müller, O. F. 1776. Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegial indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimus popularium. Copenhagen. 32, 282 p.Google Scholar
Nekvasilova, O. 1982. Craniidae (Brachiopoda, Inarticulata) from the Lower Cretaceous of Štramberk. Casopis pro Mineralogii a Geologii, 27:127137.Google Scholar
Nekvasilova, O. 1986. Internal characters of Craniscus strambergensis (Nekvasilova, 1982) (Brachiopoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Stramberk (Czechoslovakia). Casopis Mineralogii a Geologii, 31:179182.Google Scholar
Nilsson, S. 1826. Brattenburgspenningen (Anomia craniolaris Lin.) och dess samslagtingar i zoologiskt och geologisk afseendeundersokte. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, Uppsala and Stockholm, 324328 p.Google Scholar
Quenstedt, F. A. 1858. Der Jura. Von Friedrich August Quenstedt. Laupp, Tubingen, 842 p.Google Scholar
Quenstedt, F. A. 1871. Petrefactenkunde Deutschlands. Brachiopoden. Tübingen and Leipzig, 2:748.Google Scholar
Raymond, P. E. 1911. The Brachiopoda and Ostracoda of the Chazy. Carnegie Museum Annals, 7:215259.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Retzius, A. J. 1781. Crania oder Todtenkopfs-Muschel. Schriften der Berlinischen Gesellschaft Naturforschung Freunde. Berlin, 2:6676.Google Scholar
Roemer, F. A. 1839. Die Versteinerungen des Norddeutschen Oolithen-Gebirges. Ein Nachtag von Fridrich Adolf Roemer. Hahn, Hannover, 59 p.Google Scholar
Rollier, L. 1915–1916. Synopsis des Spirobranches (Brachiopodes) Jurassiques Celto-Souabes. Memoires Societe Paleontologic Suisse, 1-69. 41, 69 p.Google Scholar
Rowell, A. J. 1965. Suborder Craniidina, p. 288291. In Moore, R. C. (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, H, Brachiopoda. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.Google Scholar
Schloenbach, U. 1866. Studien uber Kreidenbrachiopoden. Palaeontographica, 13:181224.Google Scholar
Smirnova, T. N. 1972. Rannemelovye brakhiopody Kryma i Severnogo Kavkaza (Brachiopoda of the Lower Cretaceous of the Crimea and Nothern Caucasus). Nauka. Moscow, 143 p. (In Russian)Google Scholar
Smirnova, T. N. 1979. Microstruktura rakoviny nekotorykh rannemelovykh tecideidnykh brakhiopod (Shell microstructure of some Lower Cretaceous the cideacean brachiopods). Paleontologicheskij Zhurnal, 3:7986. [In Russian.]Google Scholar
Smirnova, T. N. 1980. Microstruktura rakoviny rannemelovykh tecideidnykh brakhiopod (rod Bosquetella Smirnova, 1969) i eje znachenie dlya sistematiki i filogenii nadsemejstva Thecideoidea Gray, 1840 (Shell microstructure of Lower Cretaceous thecideacean brachiopods (genus Bosquetella Smirnova, 1969) and its meaning for systematic and phylogeny of superfamily Thecideoidea Gray, 1844). Paleontologicheskij Zhurnal, 3:4351. [In Russian.]Google Scholar
Smirnova, T. N. 1990. Sistema Rannemelovykh Brakhiopod. (Systematics of Lower Cretaceous Brachiopods). Nauka, Moscow, 239 p. [In Russian.]Google Scholar
Waagen, W. H. 1885. Salt Range fossils, Part 4(2). Brachiopoda: Paleontologica Indica Memoirs, Series 13, 1:729770.Google Scholar
Williams, A. and Wright, A. D. 1970. Shell structure of the Craniacea and other calcareous Inarticulate Brachiopoda. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 7:151.Google Scholar
Williams, T. S. 1943. Stratigraphy and Fauna of the Louisiana limestone of Missouri. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 203:1133.Google Scholar
Zezina, O. N. 1980. Sostav, rasprostranenie i nekotorie biologicheskie osobennosti kholodnovodnykh brakhiopod Yuzhnogo polusharia. (Composition, distribution and some biological peculiarities of cold-water brachiopods of the Southern Hemisphere). Ekologischeskie issledovanija shelfa. Institute of Oceanology. Moscow, p. 935. [In Russian.]Google Scholar