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Kettnerites
Classification
Phylum:
Annelida
Class:
Polychaetia
Order:
Errantida
Family:
Paulinitidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Kettnerites ŽEBERA, 1935
Type Species:
*K. kosoviensis
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Fig. 86,1. *K. kosoviensis, Sil.(Budnany) Czech.; X7 (139).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Ord.
Beginning International Stage:
Tremadocian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
486.85
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Famennian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
359.3
Description
Jaw apparatus composed of single pair of mandibles and 7 asymmetrical maxillary plates with pair of carriers, mandibles with broad anterior part which runs back into elongated, gradually narrowing basal shafts, carriers elongate, conical, with convex anterior margin, forceps asymmetrical, carinate, attached to carriers, with anterior hook, dental plates triangular, with shank at outer lateral margin, unpaired piece triangular, with unequally long denticles on inner lateral margin, paragnaths asymmetrical, approximately square, with row of minute denticles on inner margin of jaw
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Classification
Phylum:
Annelida
Class:
Polychaetia
Order:
Errantida
Family:
Paulinitidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Kettnerites ŽEBERA, 1935
Type Species:
*K. kosoviensis
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 86,1. *K. kosoviensis, Sil.(Budnany) Czech.; X7 (139).
Synonyms
Geographic Distribution
Eu
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Ord.
Beginning International Stage:
Tremadocian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
486.85
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Dev.
Ending International Stage:
Famennian
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
359.3
Description
Jaw apparatus composed of single pair of mandibles and 7 asymmetrical maxillary plates with pair of carriers, mandibles with broad anterior part which runs back into elongated, gradually narrowing basal shafts, carriers elongate, conical, with convex anterior margin, forceps asymmetrical, carinate, attached to carriers, with anterior hook, dental plates triangular, with shank at outer lateral margin, unpaired piece triangular, with unequally long denticles on inner lateral margin, paragnaths asymmetrical, approximately square, with row of minute denticles on inner margin of jaw