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Ibergirhynchia contraria (F. A. Roemer, 1850), an Early Carboniferous seep–related rhynchonellide brachiopod from the Harz Mountains, Germany—a possible successor to Dzieduszyckia?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Eberhard Gischler ,
Michael R. Sandy  and
Jörn Peckmann
Eberhard Gischler
Affiliation:
Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
Michael R. Sandy
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio 45469, USA,
Jörn Peckmann
Affiliation:
Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology, University of Reading, Whiteknights, P.O. Box 227, Reading RG6 6AB, U.K.,
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Abstract

A new genus Ibergirhynchia, a member of the rhynchonellide superfamily Dimerelloidea, is described for the species Terebratula contraria Roemer, 1850, from Early Carboniferous deposits of the Harz Mountains, Germany. Ibergirhynchia contraria is from a monospecific brachiopod limestone that formed on top of the drowned Devonian Iberg Reef which persisted as a seamount during Famennian and Early Carboniferous times. Ibergirhynchia contraria is considered a cold seep-related brachiopod based on this locality. Such seep associations have been observed for Mesozoic representatives of the rhynchonellide superfamily Dimerelloidea. Ibergirhynchia is considered the first Paleozoic representative of the family Rhynchonellinidae. Ibergirhynchia resembles Dzieduszyckia externally and may be derived from this dimerelloid.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 77 , Issue 2 , March 2003 , pp. 293 - 303
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