Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

A new atrypid genus (Brachiopoda) from the Frasnian of Poland

Andrzej Baliński

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 42 (3), 1997: 427-435

A new atrypid Waiotrypa sulcicarina gen. et sp. n. from the late Frasnian of the Holy Cross Mountains is proposed. The new genus is close to Iowatrypa Copper, 1973 from which it differs mainly in having a keeled pedicle valve and sulcate brachial valve. Waiotrypa is one of the latest atrypids prior to extinction of the order at the end of the Frasnian.

Key words: Atrypida, Brachiopoda, Late Devonian, Poland.

Andrzej Baliński [balinski@twarda.pan.pl], Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, ul Twarda 51/55, PL-00-818 Warszawa, Poland.


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