Kutorgina

Kutorgina
Temporal range: Lower Cambrian - Middle Cambrian
K. cingulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Subphylum: Rhynchonelliformea
Class: Kutorginata
Family: Kutorginidae
Genus: Kutorgina

Kutorgina is a genus of Cambrian brachiopod[1] and is one of the earliest of the articulates, known as rhynchonelliforms.

Kutorgina has a concavo-convex shell with the smaller brachial valve dished in and the larger pedical valve broadly arched. The brachial valve has a rather prominent interarea at the back which is curved over by the prominent beak at the back of the pedical valve.

It includes the species Kutorgina elanica Malakhovskaya, 2013

References

  1. Charles Doolittle Walcott (1886). Second contribution to the studies on the Cambrian faunas of North America. 30 of Geological Survey bulletin. Govt. Print. Off.,. p. 369.
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