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Posts treating: "Mediospirifers"

Sunday, 21 December 2014

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Spinocyrtia elburzensis brachiopod from Morocco 

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 Devonian; MA,US
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I've only recently become proficient enough to recognize Spinocyrtia brachiopods apart from Mediospirifers when collecting the middle Devonian in New York. When I saw the fossils below for the first time, though, I knew they looked familiar. They are Spinocyrtia elburzensis from Jebel Oufatene near Alnif in Morocco and they come from middle Devonian aged rocks (Emsian stage). They have a very striking resemblance to S. granulosa which is found in the Givetian stage rocks of New York.I posted [...]
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