Alairhynchus dubius

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Camarotoechioidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Brachiopoda Subphylum: Rhynchonelliformea Classis: Rhynchonellata Ordo: Rhynchonellida Superfamilia: †Camarotoechioidea

Familia: Leiorhynchidae
Subfamilia: †Alairhynchinae
Genus: Alairhynchus
Species (1): †Alairhynchus dubius

Name

†Alairhynchus dubius (Sapelnikov & Malygina) Doweld, 2013 : 497

Synonyms

• Basionym
• †Gigantorhynchus dubius Sapelnikov & Malygina, 1977 : 62

Holotype: CGM 1/11292 (figured in Sapelnikov & Malygina, pl. 1, figs 1–2; pl. 2, figs 1–2; pl. 3, figs 1–4; pl. 4, figs 1–3).

Type locality: Archabulak River, Koksu (Eastern) River basin, Archal-tur ridge, Eastern Alai (Southern Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan); Middle Devonian (Givetian = Musbelian suite).

Primary references

• Doweld, A.B. 2013. Alairhynchus, a new name for the genus Gigantorhynchus Sapelnikov & Malygina 1977 (Brachiopoda: Camarotoechioidea) preoccupied by Gigantorhynchus Hamann 1892 (Vermes: Acanthocephala). Zootaxa 3734(4): 497–498. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.4.8 Reference page. 
• Sapelnikov, V.P. & Malygina, A.A. [Сапельников, В.П., Малыгина, А.А.] 1977. Новый род девонских ринхонеллид Южного Тянь-Шаня [A new genus of the Devonian rhynchonellids from Southern Tien Shan]. Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geokhimii Ural’skogo Nauchnogo Tsentra Akademii Nauk SSSR 129: 60–73. (Russian) Google Books