TAXA REPORTED FROM
THE TYPE-CINCINNATIAN
phylum BRACHIOPODA
genus ZYGOSPIRA
compiled
by
R. A. Davis
College of Mount St. Joseph
Cincinnati, Ohio, 45233-1670
Preface
Taxonomic framework
Type-Cincinnatian species
Other species and species-names
Alphabetic index of generic and specific names
Bibliography
Ankyliography
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R. A. Davis
Department of Biology
College of Mount St. Joseph
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Cincinnati, Ohio, 45233-1670
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Brachiopoda
Articulata
Rhynchonellata
Atrypida
Zygospira Hall, 1862
source of information:
Bassler, 1915, p. 1339;
Williams, Alwyn, C. H. C. Brunton, S. J. Carlson, et al., 2002, p. 1440-1441.
Short-List
Zygospira cincinnatiensis U. P. James in Meek, 1873
Zygospira kentuckiensis U. P. James, 1878 ----- (originally Zygospira modesta var. kentuckiensis)
Zygospira modesta (Say in Hall, 1847) Hall, 1862 ----- (originally Producta modesta) ----- type-species
Some Details
Zygospira cincinnatiensis U. P. James in Meek, 1873
Zygospira cincinnatiensis U. P. James, 1871 ----- nomen nudum
Zygospira modesta var. cincinnatiensis ( ) Grabau and Shimer, 1907
Diagnosis/Description: Usually five lateral plications on either side of fold. ----- (fide Holland web-site)
Occurrence: Mount Hope, Fairmount
Specimens:
Photographs:
source of information:
Bassler, 1915, p. 1340 ----- Mount Hope, Fairmount;
Copper, 1977;
Dalvé, 1948;
Holland web-site (27 May 2004) http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/fauna/articulata/Zygospira.html
U. P. James, 1871, p. 11 ----- "Z....*cincinnatiensis....(n. sp.)";
Meek, 1873, p. 126, pl. 11, figs. 5a,b,c ----- "Zygospira Cincinnatiensis, James.".
Zygospira kentuckiensis U. P. James, 1878
Zygospira modesta var. kentuckiensis U. P. James, 1878
Diagnosis/Description:
Occurrence: Waynesville
Specimens:
Photographs:
source of information:
Bassler, 1915, p. 1341 ----- Waynesville;
Copper, 1977;
Dalvé, 1948;
Holland web-site (27 May 2004) http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/fauna/articulata/Zygospira.html
U. P. James, 1878, p. 7 ----- (fide Bassler, 1915, p. 1341).
Zygospira modesta (Say in Hall, 1847) Hall, 1862
Producta modesta Say in Hall, 1847 ----- type-species; OD
Atrypa modesta (Say) Hall, 1847 ----- (fide Bassler, 1915, p. 1341)
Diagnosis/Description: Usually seven to nine lateral plications on either side of fold. ----- (fide Holland web-site)
Occurrence: Fulton - Elkhorn
Specimens: Steven M. Holland collection
Photographs:
Davis, 1992, p. 40, pl. I, fig. 5; p. 44, pl. III, fig. 4;
Holland web-site (27 May 2004)
http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/fauna/articulata/Zygospira.html
Williams, Alwyn, C. H. C. Brunton, S. J. Carlson, et al., 2002, p. 1441.
source of information:
Bassler, 1915, p. 1341 ----- Edenian - Richmondian;
Copper, 1977;
Dalvé, 1948;
Davis, 1992, p. 40, 41, 44, 45;
Holland web-site (27 May 2004) http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/fauna/articulata/Zygospira.html
Schwimmer and Sandy, 1996;
Williams, Alwyn, C. H. C. Brunton, S. J. Carlson, et al., 2002, p. 1440-1441.
ALPHABETIC INDEX OF GENERIC AND SPECIFIC NAMES
Atrypa modesta ----- see Zygospira modesta
cincinnatiensis
Zygospira
Zygospira modesta var. cincinnatiensis ----- see Zygospira cincinnatiensis
kentuckiensis
Zygospira
Zygospira modesta var. kentuckiensis ----- see Zygospira kentuckiensis
modesta
Atrypa ----- see Zygospira modesta
Producta ----- see Zygospira modesta
Zygospira
modesta cincinnatiensis
Zygospira modesta var. cincinnatiensis ----- see Zygospira cincinnatiensis
modesta kentuckiensis
Zygospira modesta var. kentuckiensis ----- see Zygospira kentuckiensis
Producta modesta ----- see Zygospira modesta
Zygospira ----- Brachiopoda: Articulata: Rhynchonellata: Atrypida
Zygospira cincinnatiensis
Zygospira kentuckiensis
Zygospira modesta ----- type-species
Zygospira modesta var. cincinnatiensis ----- see Zygospira cincinnatiensis
Zygospira modesta var. kentuckiensis ----- see Zygospira kentuckiensis
OTHER SPECIES AND SPECIES-NAMES
Not all of the following citations are complete. For more complete, definitive citations, please, go to the bibliography web-page of this web-site.
Bassler, Ray S., 1915, Bibliographic Index of American Ordovician and Silurian Fossils: U.S. National Museum Bulletin 92, 2 v., p. I-VIII + 1-1,521, pls. 1-4.
Copper, Paul, 1977, Zygospira and Some Related Ordovician and Silurian Atrypoid Brachiopods: Palaeontology, v. 20, pt. 2, p. 295-335, pls. 37-40.
Dalvé, Elizabeth, 1948, The Fossil Fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region: University Museum, Department of Geology and Geography, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, II + 56 p.
Davis, R. A., ed., 1992, Cincinnati Fossils. An Elementary Guide to the Ordovician Rocks and Fossils of the Cincinnati, Ohio, Region: Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, Cincinnati, Ohio, ii + 61 p., 8 pls.
Hall, James, 1847, Palaeontology of New York, Vol. 1. Containing Descriptions of the Organic Remains of the Lower Divisions of the New York System: C. van Benthuysen, New York, 338 p., 100 pls. ----- (fide Treatise H, p. 1636).
Hall, James, 1862, Contributions to Palaeontology Comprising Descriptions of New Species of Fossils formthe Upper Helderberg and Chemung Groups: Fifteenth Annual Report, State Cabinet of Natural History, Albany, p. 27-197. ----- (fide Treatise H, p. 1637).
James, U. P., 1871, Paleontology. Catalogue of the Lower Silurian Fossils, Cincinnati Group, Found at Cincinnati and Vicinity -- Within a Range of Forty or Fifty Miles: U. P. James, Cincinnati, Ohio, 14 p.
James, U. P., 1878a, Descriptions of Newly Discovered Species of Fossils from the Lower Silurian Formations -- Cincinnati Group: The Paleontologist, no. 1, p. 1-8. [listed in Davis and Spohn, 1998, as 1878b]
Meek, F. B., 1873, Descriptions of Invertebrate Fossils of the Silurian and Devonian Systems: Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio, v. 1, pt. II, p. 1-243, pls. 1-23.
Williams, Alwyn, C. H. C. Brunton, S. J. Carlson, et al., 2002.
ANKYLIOGRAPHY
Steven M. Holland web-site (27 May 2004): http://www.uga.edu/~strata/cincy/fauna/articulata/Zygospira.html
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