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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COMELICANIIDAE MERLA, 1930 (BRACHIOPODA: ATHYRIDIDA) FROM THE LOPINGIAN (LATE PERMIAN) OF SOUTH CHINA AND TRANSCAUCASIA IN AZERBAIJAN AND IRAN

¹ State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, <szshen{at}nigpas.ac.cn>, <jinyugan{at}yahoo.com>
² Palaeontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117647, <t.grunt{at}g23.relcom.ru>

Eleven athyridoid species are described and other related species are revised from the Lopingian (late Permian) of South China and Transcaucasia in southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran. The family Comelicaniidae Merla, 1930 is adopted. It includes six subfamilies, of which Araxathyriinae is proposed as a new subfamily. Comparisons of species based on detailed internal structures indicate that some previously commonly recorded species from South China and Transcaucasia actually belong to different genera. Araxathyris coexisted in the two regions. Comelicania, Gruntallina, Janiceps, Transcaucasathyris, and Comelicothyris are only found in the southern Alps, Hungary, and/or Transcaucasia; whereas Tongzithyris and Rectambitus are restricted to South China. Other new taxa are Transcaucasathyris n. gen., Araxathyris sinensis n. sp., Rectambitus xui n. sp., and R. spondomarginata n. sp.

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