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Spiriferella saranae

Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae

Taxonomy
Spirifer saranae was named by de Verneuil (1845). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sarana, Ufa River, which is in a Sakmarian carbonate limestone in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Spiriferina (Spiriferella) saranae by Tschernyschew (1902); it was recombined as Spiriferella saranae by Tschernyschew and Stepanow (1916), Grabau (1931), Brabb and Grant (1971), Waterhouse and Waddington (1982), Li et al. (1986), Shi and Waterhouse (1996), Kalashnikov (1998), Waterhouse (2004) and Tazawa (2008).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1845Spirifer saranae de Verneuil p. 169 figs. Pl 6, fig 15
1846Spirifer saranae Keyserling p. 232 figs. Pl 8, figs 4-6; pl 10, fig 3
1902Spiriferina (Spiriferella) saranae Tschernyschew p. 121 figs. Pl 12, fig 4; pl 40, fig 7
1916Spiriferella saranae Tschernyschew and Stepanow p. 50 figs. Pl 9, fig 1; pl 11, fig 1
1931Spiriferella saranae Grabau p. 155 figs. Pl 22, fig 4
1970Spiriferella kolymaensis Zavodowsky p. 162 figs. Pl 36, figs 3,4; pl 38, figs 4-6; pl 39, fig 1
1971Spiriferella saranae Brabb and Grant p. 17 figs. Pl 1, figs 13-17
1982Spiriferella saranae Waterhouse and Waddington p. 17 figs. Pl 4, figs 1-11; text-figs 14,16a,c
1986Spiriferella saranae Li et al. figs. Pl 6, fig 8
1996Spiriferella saranae Shi and Waterhouse p. 132 figs. Pl 24, figs 21-32; pl 25, figs 1-5
1998Spiriferella saranae Kalashnikov p. 59 figs. Pl 18, figs 8-10
2004Spiriferella saranae Waterhouse
2008Spiriferella saranae Tazawa p. 40 figs. 6.1-6.4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
Lophophorata
PanbrachiopodaCarlson and Cohen 2020
phylumBrachiopodaCuvier 1805
RankNameAuthor
subphylumRhynchonelliformeaWilliams et al. 1996
classRhynchonellataWilliams et al. 1996
orderSpiriferida
suborderSpiriferidina
superfamilySpiriferoidea()
familySpiriferellidaeWaterhouse 1968
genusSpiriferella()
speciessaranae()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Spiriferella saranae de Verneuil 1845
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Invalid names: Spiriferella kolymaensis Zavodowsky 1970 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available