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Lingulodiscina marginalis (Whitfield, 1882)

Lingulodiscina marginalis
Lingulodiscina marginalis

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Lingulata
Order: Discinida
Family: Disciniidae
Genus: Lingulodiscina
Species: Lingulodiscina marginalis (Whitfield, 1882)

Information

Geological Range

Middle Devonian

Paleogeographic Distribution

Wisconsin

Stratigraphic Occurrences

Milwaukee Formation
Lindwurm Member
Berthelet Member

References

Whitfield (1882): p. 325, plate 25, fig. 11 (MPM P230).

Cleland (1911): pp. 84, 85, plate XII, fig. 11.

Gaas et al. (2019): p. 58, fig. 60.

Remarks

From Whitfield (1882, p. 84): “Shell small, rather below the medium size, [to large, one specimen having a length of 27 mm], discoid, and very nearly circular.”

Online Resources

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Media

Images

Photograph of fossil of Lingulodiscina marginalis (MPM P16227)
Lingulodiscina marginalis from the Milwaukee Fm. (Lindwurm Mbr.) of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (MPM P16227).

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