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Cerasinella, A replacement name for the Silurian brachiopod genus Cerasina Copper 1995, Anticosti Island

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2016

Paul Copper
Paul Copper*
Affiliation:
Loupicoubas, 46220 Prayssac, France Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada P3E 2C6
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Taxonomic Note
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 89 , Issue 5 , September 2015 , pp. 894
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Copyright © 2016, The Paleontological Society 

In 1995, Copper (p. 850) described the atrypoid brachiopod genus Cerasina for two species of common, smooth-shelled brachiopods from the Llandovery Merrimack Formation of Anticosti Island. The type species was settled as Cerasina pycnata Copper Reference Copper1995, allocated to the Family Lissatrypidae (Copper, Reference Copper1995, p. 850). The genus was cited in abstract form, and illustrated, for the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (Copper, Reference Copper2002, p. 1462-1463, fig. 992, 2a-h).

Recently I was informed that the name Cerasina is pre-occupied by the name for a genus of European fresh water lymnaeid snail, Cerasina Kobelt (Kobelt, Reference Kobelt1876, p. 297). Thus I hereby select a new genus name, Cerasinella, type species C. pycnata Copper Reference Copper1995, for this early Silurian (late Rhuddanian) atrypide brachiopod.

References

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