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Cucullograptus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Hemichordata
    Class:  
Pterobranchia
    Order:  
Graptoloidea
    Superfamily:  
Neograptina
    Family:  
Monograptidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Cucullograptus URBANEK, 1954, p. 291
    Type Species:  
*C. pazdroi, OD


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Fig. 306,3 a-c. * C. pazdroi, three different views of holotype, glacial boulder, Gdansk-Wrzeszcz, Poland (Urbanek, 1954, fig. 2). Scale bars, 1 mm.


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, China (Yunnan)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Silurian, Ludlow (Gorstian, Lobograptus parascanicus Biozone)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Gorstian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
426.74
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Silurian (Ludfordian, Cucullograptus rostratus/lower Bohemograptus tenuis Biozone)
    Ending International Stage:  
Ludfordian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
422.73


Description

Narrow, straight, or gently ventrally curved tubarium, small sicula, first theca originated via a primary porus, thecae long, with elongate protheca and short metatheca, thecal aperture slit-like, with complex auriculate lateral apertural lobes, with increasing asymmetry distally, the left apertural lobe overlaps right lobe, restricting thecal aperture




References

Urbanek, Adam. 1954. Some observations on the morphology of Monograptidae. Acta Geologica Polonica 4:291-306.


Museum or Author Information

Urbanek, 1954