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Protegulum and brephic shell of the earliest organophosphatic brachiopods

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Early development stages imprinted on the shells of Cambrian brachiopods from the class Linguliformea (orders Paterinida, Lingulida, Acrotretida) were studied with scanning electron microscope based on a large collection from the Siberian Platform. Some specimens of all three orders preserved protegulum (embryonic shell); their brephic (juvenile) shells, also were studied. Many of them might lack larval development stage as it is known for the recent representatives of the family Lingulidae. But unlike recent lingulids, the surface of the juvenile dorsal valves of all studied linguliformeans bore two (rarely three) pairs of gentle elevations accommodating bundles of setae, which sometime preserve as groups of fine imprints along their margins. Recent Lingula and Glottidia lack setae in this stage. On the other hand, recent classes Craniformea and Rhynchonelliformea have setae, but they develop in the larval stage. Most of brachiopod groups have the setae in the adult stage but these setae have different origin, are short, located on the lateral and anterior ends of the shell, and grow from the marginal cells of the mantle.

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Original Russian Text © G.T. Ushatinskaya, 2016, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2016, No. 2, pp. 37–47.

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Ushatinskaya, G.T. Protegulum and brephic shell of the earliest organophosphatic brachiopods. Paleontol. J. 50, 141–152 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030116020088

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