Phylum BRACHIOPODA


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Introduction

Brachiopoda, commonly known as lamp shells, are solitary, benthic marine invertebrates closely related to the other lophophorate phylum the Phoronida. Brachiopods resemble the bivalve molluscs in having a mantle and two calcareous shell halves. However, the basic bauplan of the brachiopods is quite different from molluscs: the most obvious character is that the two valves are dorsal and ventral, whereas in the bivalves they are lateral. This partly accounts for the late segregation of the Brachiopoda from the phylum Mollusca in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Most brachiopods are attached to the substrate by means of a pedicle, while others are cemented. Some species that have long pedicles do not attach to a hard substrate but anchor the pedicle deep in the sand or lie freely. Some species have attached and unattached populations. Pedicles may be deeply anchored in the sand or mud, or used as temporal anchorage of the animal. The substrate relationships of brachiopods are varied and differ from those of other phyla because the majority of living species retain the substrate used for larval settlement as one component of the behavioural system.

The brachiopods range in size from one millimetre to over nine centimetres and may be found from the intertidal zone through to the abyssal depths.

The phylum dates back to at least 600 million years. It was particularly abundant in the Palaeozoic but has progressively decreased in diversity toward the Recent. Worldwide, there is an estimated 12,000 described fossil species but only 335 described Recent species. In Australia only 46 species have been recorded.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank J. Richardson for reviewing the present catalogue, work done to the collection at the Australian Museum and the notes left behind which facilitated this compilation. We express appreciation for the help received from the staff at the museum library; Winston Ponder for providing comment on the draft; Keith Houston and Kathy Tsang, ABRS, for editorial help and database management, and ABRS for funding for this project.

ABRS thanks Dr Christian Emig for his advice on the appropriate classification to use for this group.

Database Notes

The classification adopted here follows that provide by Dr Christian Emig, pers. comm. (2004).

 

Etymology

Greek: brachium = arm, poda = feet.

Limiltal Area

Distribution data in the Directory is by political and geographic region descriptors and serves as a guide to the distribution of a taxon. For details of a taxon's distribution, the reader should consult the cited references (if any) at genus and species levels.

Australia is defined as including Lord Howe Is., Norfolk Is., Cocos (Keeling) Ils, Christmas Is., Ashmore and Cartier Ils, Macquarie Is., Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard and McDonald Ils, and the waters associated with these land areas of Australian political responsibility. Political areas include the adjacent waters.

Terrestrial geographical terms are based on the drainage systems of continental Australia, while marine terms are self explanatory except as follows: the boundary between the coastal and oceanic zones is the 200 m contour; the Arafura Sea extends from Cape York to 124 DEG E; and the boundary between the Tasman and Coral Seas is considered to be the latitude of Fraser Island, also regarded as the southern terminus of the Great Barrier Reef.

Distribution records, if any, outside of these areas are listed as extralimital. The distribution descriptors for each species are collated to genus level. Users are advised that extralimital distribution for some taxa may not be complete.

 

General References

Brusca, R.C. & Brusca, G.J. 1990. The Brachiopods. pp. 791-797 in Brusca, R.C. & Brusca, G.J. Invertebrates. Sunderland, Massachusetts : Sinauer Associates Inc. 922 pp.

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 2 pp. H523-H927.

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 1 pp. i-xxxii, H1-H521.

Nielsen, C. 1995. Animal Evolution – Interrelationships of the living phyla. Oxford : Oxford University Press ix 467 pp.

Richardson, J.R. 1997. Chapter 19. Brachiopods (Phylum Brachiopoda). pp. 999-1027 in Shepherd, S.A. & Davies, M. (eds). Marine invertebrates of Southern Australia. Richmond, SA : South Australian Research and Development Institute & Flora and Fauna of South Australia Handbook Committee Vol. 3 pp. 902-1264.

Ruppert, E.E. & Barnes, R.D. 1994. Brachiopoda. pp. 1029-1037 in Ruppert, E.E. & Barnes, R.D. (eds). Invertebrate Zoology. USA : Saunders College Publishing 1056 pp.

Willmer, P. 1990. Invertebrate Relationships. Patterns in Animal Evolution. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 400 pp.

 

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Subphylum CRANIIFORMEA

Introduction

Occurrence: ?Lower Cambrian, Middle Cambrian to Recent.

 

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Class CRANIATA

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Occurrence: ?Lower Cambrian, Middle Cambrian to Recent.

 

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Order CRANIIDA

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Occurrence: Lower Ordovician to Recent.

 

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Superfamily CRANIOIDEA

Introduction

Occurrence: Lower Ordovician to Recent.

 

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Family CRANIIDAE Menke, 1828

Introduction

Occurence: ?Mid Cambrian, Later Ordovician to Recent.

 

Diagnosis

Shell calcareous, punctate, punctae in branchial valve, branching in some Recent genera, arborescently towards distal end. Branchial valve usually conical, pedicle valve subconical or convex when free, conforming to shape of surface of attachment when fixed. Principal muscles consist of two pairs of adductors traversing shell dorsoventrally and two pairs of oblique muscles. Recent species with anus posteriorly placed on mid-line of shell, no marginal setae. From Moore (1965A: H289) and Lee (1986: 143).

 

Diagnosis References

Lee, D.E. & 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 (Natural History) Geology 40(4): 141-160 [143]

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 1 pp. i-xxxii, H1-H521. [H289]

 

General References

Lee, D.E. & 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 (Natural History) Geology 40(4): 141-160

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 1 pp. i-xxxii, H1-H521.

 

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Genus Novocrania Lee & Brunton, 2001

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia


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IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

Australian Region

General References

Cohen, B.L., Kaulfuss, A. & Lüter, C. 2014. Craniid brachiopods: aspects of clade structure and distribution reflect continental drift (Brachiopoda: Craniiformea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171(1): 133-150

 

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Species Novocrania lecointei (Joubin, 1901)

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental rise, continental slope, filter-feeder, marine.

 

General References

Foster, M.W. 1974. Recent Antarctic and Subantarctic Brachiopods. Antarctic Research Series 21: 1-189 [43, pl. 2, figs 1-6, text fig. 15] (extensive synonymy, description, distribution, variation, biology, etc.)

Lee, D.E. & 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 (Natural History) Geology 40(4): 141-160 [152] (placed in Neocrania)

 

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Species Novocrania reevei (Lee & Brunton, 1986)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Distribution compiled from AMS collection material and literature.


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IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, filter-feeder, marine.

 

General References

Davidson, T. 1887. A monograph of Recent Brachiopoda. Part II. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2 4: 75-182 pls xiv-xxv [192] (Sydney)

Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [113]

Whitelegge, T. 1889. List of the Marine and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and the Neighbourhood. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 1-161 [294] (Sydney)

 

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Subphylum LINGULIFORMEA

Introduction

Occurrence: Lower Cambrian to Recent.

 

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Class LINGULATA

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Occurrence: Lower Cambrian to Recent.

 

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Order LINGULIDA

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Occurrence: Lower Cambrian to Recent.

 

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Superfamily LINGULOIDEA

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Occurrence: Lower Cambrian to Recent.

 

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Family LINGULIDAE Menke, 1828

Introduction

For ecology, geographic distribution, morphology, anatomy and systematics, see Emig (1979, 1982).

Occurence: ?Upper Devonian, Carboniferous to Recent.

 

Diagnosis

Elongate oval to spatulate in outline, beak of pedicle valve with broad triangular ventral depression of groove for passage of pedicle. Posteriolateral margins of valve thickened, striated, lacking flexure lines, but rarely forming well-defined triangular propareas. Beak of brachial valve with small, uninterupted pseudointerarea, not extending as a plate into the valve. Principal musculature consisting of umbonal muscle, paired centrals, transmedians, anterior, outsiode and middle laterals. One pair of principal mantle canals in each valve. Recent species with long, flexible pedicle lophophore spirolophous, apices of spires medianly directed. From Moore (1965: H262).

 

Diagnosis References

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 1 pp. i-xxxii, H1-H521. [H262]

 

General References

Emig, C.C. 1979. Three species of Lingula from the Queensland Coast. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 19(3): 381-391

Emig, C.C. 1982. Taxonomie du genre Lingula (Brachiopodes, Inarticul). Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 4 4(3-4): 337-367

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 1 pp. i-xxxii, H1-H521.

 

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Genus Lingula Bruguière, 1789

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia


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IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

General References

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 1 pp. i-xxxii, H1-H521. [263]

 

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Species Lingula adamsi Dall, 1873

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia


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IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, filter-feeder, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal.

 

General References

Emig, C.C. 1979. Three species of Lingula from the Queensland Coast. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 19(3): 381-391 [384]

Emig, C.C. 1982. Taxonomie du genre Lingula (Brachiopodes, Inarticul). Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 4 4(3-4): 337-367 [360]

 

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Species Lingula anatina Lamarck, 1801

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Confirmed distribution in Australia is Dampier Archipelago and NE Queensland.


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IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal.

 

General References

Emig, C.C. 1979. Three species of Lingula from the Queensland Coast. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 19(3): 381-391 [382]

Emig, C.C. 1982. Taxonomie du genre Lingula (Brachiopodes, Inarticul). Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 4 4(3-4): 337-367 [353]

 

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Species Lingula rostrum (Shaw, 1797)

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Verified distribution from northern NSW to NE Queensland, and Broome.


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IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, filter-feeder, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal.

 

General References

Angas, G.F. 1867. A list of species of marine Mollusca found in Port Jackson harbour, New South Wales, and on the adjacent coasts, with notes on their habits etc. Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 912-935 [935]

Emig, C.C. 1982. Taxonomie du genre Lingula (Brachiopodes, Inarticul). Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 4 4(3-4): 337-367 [355]

Hedley, C. 1917. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XIII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 680–719 [694-695] (discussion of Australian Lingula spp.)

Hedley, C. 1918. A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 51: M1–M120 [M113] (name in list)

Whitelegge, T. 1889. List of the Marine and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and the Neighbourhood. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 1-161 [294] (record from Sydney Harbour)

 

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Species Lingula tumidula Reeve, 1841

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Moreton Bay, Australia.


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IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Oriental Region

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, filter-feeder, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal.

 

General References

Emig, C.C. 1982. Taxonomie du genre Lingula (Brachiopodes, Inarticul). Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 4 4(3-4): 337-367 [360] (systematics, illustrations)

Reeve, L. 1841. On Lingula, a genus of brachipodous mollusks. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 9: 97-101 [100] (description)

 

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Superfamily DISCINOIDEA

Introduction

Occurrence: Lower Ordovician to Recent.

 

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Family DISCINIDAE Gray, 1840

Introduction

Occurence: Ordovician (?Tremadoc, Arenig) to Recent.

 

Diagnosis

Holoperipheral growth in conical to subconical branchial valve. Musculature consisting of two major pairs, anterior and posterior adductors and several pairs of oblique muscles. Oblique muscles are only adequately known from Recent species which also possess spirolophe or szhiziolophe, and have well developed marginal setae. From Moore (1965).

 

Diagnosis References

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 1 pp. i-xxxii, H1-H521.

 

General References

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 1 pp. i-xxxii, H1-H521.

 

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Genus Discina Lamarck, 1819

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia


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IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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Species Discina striata (Schumacher, 1817)

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Compiled from AMS reference collection; also found in West Africa.


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IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, filter-feeder, marine.

 

General References

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 1 pp. i-xxxii, H1-H521. [H286] (distribution W Africa)

 

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Genus Pelagodiscus Dall, 1908

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia


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IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

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Antarctic Region

Australian Region

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Species Pelagodiscus atlanticus (King, 1868)

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Exact distribution in Australian waters unknown; worldwide distribution. .


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IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

Australian Region

Ecological Descriptors

Abyssal, bathyal.

 

General References

Foster, M.W. 1974. Recent Antarctic and Subantarctic Brachiopods. Antarctic Research Series 21: 1-189 [39]

 

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Subphylum RHYNCHONELLIFORMEA

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Class RHYNCHONELLATA

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Order RHYNCHONELLIDA

Introduction

The members of the cosmopolitan order Rhynchonellida are small to moderate-sized, impunctate, with a greyish-white or black shell. Dental plates are usually present and most are unplicate. The pedicle is used for tethering whether the substratum is hard or soft. The lophophore is spirolophous and supported at its base by crura. Spicules are absent.

This order comprises four families, only two of which occur in Australia. Cryptoporidae are represented by two species, the cosmopolitan Cryptopora gnomon and the endemic Aulites brazieri. The Basiliioloidae are represented by a single endemic species, Eohemithiris colurnus. The three basiliiodid genera are monotypic.

 

General References

Foster, M.W. 1974. Recent Antarctic and Subantarctic Brachiopods. Antarctic Research Series 21: 1-189 [46]

 

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Superfamily PUGNACOIDEA

Introduction

Occurrence: Lower Devonian to Recent.

 

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Family BASILIOLIDAE Cooper, 1959

Introduction

Occurence: Cretaceous to Recent.

 

Diagnosis

Smooth or semicostate; conjunct deltidial plates and small auriculate foramen; well developed pedicle collar; broad falcifer crura supported by outer hinge plates or socket ridges; median septum in branchial valve reduced to ridge or absent. From Moore (1965: H622).

 

Diagnosis References

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 2 pp. H523-H927.

 

General References

Foster, M.W. 1974. Recent Antarctic and Subantarctic Brachiopods. Antarctic Research Series 21: 1-189 [47]

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 2 pp. H523-H927.

 

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Subfamily Basiliolinae Cooper, 1959

Introduction

Occurence - Eocene to Recent.

 

Diagnosis

Branchial valve with crura attached to broad outer plates, no median septum. From Moore (1965: H622).

 

Diagnosis References

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 2 pp. H523-H927.

 

General References

Moore, R.C. 1965. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H. Brachiopoda. New York : The Geological Society of America, Inc. and The University of Kansas Press Vol. 2 pp. H523-H927.

 

History of changes

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12-Feb-2010 (import)

Genus Basiliolella d’Hondt, 1987

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Basiliolella is found in an arc from eastern Australia to the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia.


IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Transition (15), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

History of changes

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06-Apr-2024 ADDED
Note: the generation of this complete preview for BRACHIOPODA was cancelled at Basiliolella d’Hondt, 1987 owing to the initation of another complete preview for Munidopsis kensleyi Ahyong & Poore, 2004. Only one complete preview may be executed at a time. Previews were generated for 32 of 161 taxa.