Scacchinella (Productida, Brachiopoda) from the Lower Permian of Akasaka, Mino Belt, central Japan, with a review of its world distribution

Shen, Shu-Zhong; Tazawa, Jun-ichi; Ono, Teruo

Scacchinella (Productida, Brachiopoda) from the Lower Permian of Akasaka, Mino Belt, central Japan, with a review of its world distribution

2006

Shen, Shu-Zhong | Tazawa, Jun-ichi | Ono, Teruo

Scacchinella gigantea Schellwien, 1900 is described from the lower part (Parafusulina Zone, Kungurian) of the Akasaka Limestone in the Akasaka area, Mino Belt, central Japan. A review of all occurrences of Scacchinella indicates that this genus ranges from Late Carboniferous (Gzhelian) to Late Permian (Changhsingian). Palaeobiogeographically, the distribution of Scacchinella is restricted to the Palaeoequatorial region and bi-temperate transitional zones, but it has never been recorded from the Boreal and Gondwanan regions.

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