Salgirella alberti ( Oppel, 1861 )

Vörös, A., 2014, Early Jurassic brachiopods from diverse localities of northern Anatolia (Turkey), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 31, pp. 7-49 : 22

Salgirella alberti ( Oppel, 1861)

( Figs 24–26)

* 1861 Rhynchonella Albertii Opp. – OPPEL, Brachiopoden des unteren Lias, p. 546, pl. XIII, fig. 4.

? 1869 Rhynchonella Alberti (Oppel) . – DUMORTIER, Bassin du Rhône, p. 332, pl. XLII, figs 14, 15.

v 1880 Rhynchonella Albertii Oppel. – UHLIG, Sospirolo, p. 32 (pars), pl. IV, fig. 1 (non fig. 2).

v 1889 Rhynchonella Alberti Opp. – GEYER, Hierlatz, p. 43, pl. V, figs 14–17 .

v 1895 Rhynchonella Alberti Opp. – FUCINI, Calcari bianchi, p. 172, pl. VII, fig. 1.

v 1900 Rhynchonella sp. aff. Alberti Opp. – BÖSE & SCHLOSSER, Südtyrol, p. 193, pl. XVIII, fig. 1.

1934 Rhynchonella alberti Opp. – MOISSEIEV, Crimea and Caucasus, p. 46, 179, pl. III, figs 5–7.

1949 Rhynchonella Alberti Opp. var. tenuis n. var. – NUTSUBIDZE, Dzirula Massif, p. 49, pl. I, fig. 5.

? 2003 Salgirella cf. alberti ( Oppel, 1861) – DULAI, Hettangian and Early Sinemurian, p. 29, pl. V, figs 7–10.

2008 Salgirella albertii ( Oppel, 1861) – SIBLÍK, Mitterwand, p. 66, pl. 1, fig. 2.

Material – Three partly incomplete specimens from Beytepe (Ankara area), probably Pliensbachian.

Measurements –

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INV 2014.98. 26.3 33.5 14.6 7.9 Remarks – This is the type species of the genus Salgirella , and it was profusely and properly illustrated in the classical literature ( OPPEL 1861, l.c.; GEYER 1889, l.c.) and even by MOISSEIEV (1934, l.c.). On this basis, our specimens were easily identified as S. alberti . The illustrations of S. alberti given by DUMORTIER (1869, l.c.) and DULAI (2003, l.c.) are not fully convincing; they probably represent some other species. The same holds true for one of the figures by UHLIG (1880, pl. IV, fig. 2); the present author examined this specimen in the collection of the Padova University, and concluded that it may belong rather to the genus Prionorhynchia .

The original spelling of the name albertii by OPPEL (l.c.) has been changed by GEYER (l.c.) to alberti ; later this usage became prevailing, therefore, in accordance with the rules of the ICZN ( ICZN 1999, Article 33.3), alberti is suggested as the correct spelling. S. alberti is a characteristic Sinemurian Alpine species, but it was recorded also from the Pliensbachian of other Mediterranean localities, the Crimea and Caucasus and now from Turkey.