Koninckella liasina

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Rhynchonellata
Order: Athyridida
Family: Koninckinidae
Genus: Koninckella
Species: Koninckella liasina
Author Citation Bouchard, 1847

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Early
International Age: Toarcian

Stratigraphy

Cabo Carvoeiro Formation

Biostratigraphy

Dactylioceras polymorphum Zone
Dactylioceras semicelatum Subzone

Provenance

Collector: Ricardo Pimentel
Acquired by: Field Collection

Location

Ponta do Trovão
Peniche
Leiria District
Portugal

• koninckella fauna
• polymorphum zone
• semicelatum subzone
• toarcian

Comments

Dwarf Brachiopoda from early Toarcian Koninckella fauna in Portugal (Polymorphum Zone, Semicelatum subzone), comprising particularly Koninckella liasina, Nannirhynchia pygmaea and Pseudokingena deslongchamps.

Koninckinidae became extinct in the early Toarcian and has minute size and peculiar shape (that is very similar to that of the Paleozoic strophomenids).

 

 

Comas-Rengifo, M.J., Duarte, L.V., García Joral, F., Goy, A., 2013. Los braquiópodos del Toarciense Inferior (Jurásico) en el área de Rabaçal-Condeixa (Portugal): distribución estratigráfica y paleobiogeografía. Compt. Rendus Geosci. 100 (1), 37–42.

Comas-Rengifo,M.J., Duarte, L.V., Félix, F.F., García Joral, F., Goy, A., Rocha, R.B., 2015. Latest Pliensbachian–Early Toarcian brachiopod assemblages from the Peniche section (Portugal) and their correlation. Episodes 38, 2–8.