TITLE:
SEM Morphological Study of the Paratype of the Spinicaudatan Feiyunella zhedongensis (Chen and Shen, 1977) from Cretaceous of Linhai, Zhejiang, South-East China
AUTHORS:
Xiao Teng, Gang Li
KEYWORDS:
Spinicaudatan, Feiyunella, Linhaiella, Taxonomy, Cretaceous, South-East China
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Geology,
Vol.9 No.10,
September
23,
2019
ABSTRACT: Spinicaudatans, a suborder of the abandoned taxonomic group “Conchostraca”, are very useful for biostratigraphic subdivision and correlation of the non-marine successions, remarkably in otherwise fossil-scarce red beds. Feiyunella, a monospecies spinicaudatan genus, was established based on specimens from sediments of Upper Cretaceous red beds in different localities of Zhejiang Province. The morphological examination under a scanning electron microscope of the type specimens of Feiyunella zhedongensis (Chen and Shen, 1977) has found that the paratype from the Fangyan Formation at Xiaoling of Linhai City, Zhejiang Province, is not Feiyunella, but a younger individual of Linhaiella.