Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 75. (Budapest 1983)

Vörös, A.: Some new genera of Brachiopoda from the Mediterranean Jurassic

{This feature is tentatively interpreted as an attachment area of the dorsal pedicle muscles.) The crura are short, diverging with slightly incurved crural processes. The loop is short with converging branches; the transverse band is not ventrally arched as usual, but is deflected dorsally. The dorsal adductor muscle scars are rapidly expanding and diverging. Species : P. bimammata (ROTHPLETZ) (1886. p. 113. pl. XII. fie. 14; pl. XIII. fig. 13-15). — P. (GEYER) (1889, p. 11, pl. I, fig. pi. ens II, fig. 1-2) Discussion: At present, Papodina seems to stand alone among Mesozoic brachiopods. Its "axiniform

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' appearance resembles that of Seeurithyris and some other pygopids but, even externally, it is markedly different by its attenuated, suberect beak. Internally, the short, triangular loop with dorsally arched transverse band is a very distinctive character. There is a group of species from the Bajocian — Bathonian of the Mediterranean Region, described by OPPEL (1863) ("Terebratula" latieoxa) and Di STEFANO (1884) ("T." reeuperoi, "Pygope" getmneilaroi, etc.) which shows very strong external similarity to Papodina. 5 mm Fig. 9. Papodina bittneri (GEYER). A series of fourteen transverse sections through the posterior part of a specimen from Fenyveskút (Bakony, Hungary), Margaritatus Zone. Hung. Geol. Inst., J. 9193. Original length of specimen 29.4 mm. The brachidium persisted to 5.0 mm from the posterior end of the shell (the distal part was missing) 2 Természettudományi Múzeum Évkönyve 1983