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Dulai, A.; Von Der Hocht, F. (2020). Upper Oligocene brachiopods from NW Germany, with description of a new Platidiinae genus, Germanoplatidia n. gen. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 126(1): 223-248.
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Dulai, A.; Von Der Hocht, F.
2020
Upper Oligocene brachiopods from NW Germany, with description of a new Platidiinae genus, Germanoplatidia n. gen.
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia
126(1): 223-248
Publication
Upper Oligocene brachiopods of NW Germany were studied in two collections: the Naturalis Biodi-versity Center (Leiden, the Netherlands) and the F. von der Hocht private Collection (Kerpen, Germany). Overall, six taxa have been identified. Generic attributions of “Rhynchonella” supraoligocaenica Görges, 1952 (Aphelesia) and “Terebra-tula” pusilla Philippi, 1843 (Germanoplatidia n. gen) have been solved. The Chattian occurrence of Aphelesia is the first confirmed record of the genus in the Paleogene. Chattian record of the well-known Neogene Discinisca fallens (Wood, 1872) confirms that faunal change within brachiopods happened before the Paleogene/Neogene boundary. Similarly to the Mediterranean Terebratula-Aphelesia association, Aphelesia occurs also together with a large terebratulide genus (Pliothyrina) in the upper Oligocene Pre-North Sea. Along with some previously recognized genera (Orthothyris, Bron-nothyris, Rugia), a further brachiopod evolutionary lineage was found to survive from the Mesozoic to the Paleogene (Aemula-Germanoplatidia n. gen.). According to the morphological characters of the genus and sedimentological cha-racters of the surrounding deposits, Germanoplatidia n. gen. species lived on sandy bottom environments, and attached to small hard objects in the fine sediment by a pedicle longer than that of Aemula. Half of the identified species are endemic in Pre-North Sea. Here we document the first record of Argyrotheca bitnerae Dulai in Dulai & Stachacz, 2011 from the Pre-North Sea; this recently described species shows a cosmopolitan distribution in the Cenozoic.
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Anomia bipartita Brocchi, 1814 † accepted as Aphelesia bipartita (Brocchi, 1814) † (basis of record)
Aphelesia Cooper, 1959 † (additional source)
Aphelesia bipartita (Brocchi, 1814) † (basis of record)
Germanoplatidia Dulai & von der Hocht, 2020 † (original description)
Germanoplatidia pusilla (Philippi, 1843) † (new combination reference)
Platidia pusilla (Philippi, 1843) † accepted as Germanoplatidia pusilla (Philippi, 1843) † (basis of record)
Platidiinae Dall, 1870 (taxonomy source)
Terebratula pusilla Philippi, 1843 † accepted as Germanoplatidia pusilla (Philippi, 1843) † (basis of record)
Aphelesia Cooper, 1959 † (additional source)
Aphelesia bipartita (Brocchi, 1814) † (basis of record)
Germanoplatidia Dulai & von der Hocht, 2020 † (original description)
Germanoplatidia pusilla (Philippi, 1843) † (new combination reference)
Platidia pusilla (Philippi, 1843) † accepted as Germanoplatidia pusilla (Philippi, 1843) † (basis of record)
Platidiinae Dall, 1870 (taxonomy source)
Terebratula pusilla Philippi, 1843 † accepted as Germanoplatidia pusilla (Philippi, 1843) † (basis of record)
Germany for Germanoplatidia pusilla (Philippi, 1843) †