%0 Journal Article
%A Baeza Carratalá, José F.
%A Pérez Valera, Juan Alberto
%A Pérez Valera, Fernando
%T The oldest post-Paleozoic (Ladinian, Triassic) brachiopods from the Betic Range, SE Spain
%D 2018
%@ 0567-7920, ESSN: 1732-2421
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12280
%X Triassic brachiopods from the Betic Range were unknown hitherto. Herein we describe the first brachiopod  occurrences in the early Ladinian of this domain referable to a new genus and species Misunithyris goyi derived from three localities of the south-Iberian Triassic outcrops. The analysis of internal and external characters of this brachiopod allowed to characterize systematically and biogeographically this fauna in a chronostratigraphic interval when the paucity of brachiopod records is attributable to the entire peri-Iberian epicontinental platform system established in the westernmost Tethyan margin. The new record is endemic to the Betic Range and represents a new faunal constituent of the multicostate zeillerids stock. This fauna inhabited the epicontinental seas of the Sephardic bioprovince since a closer affinity with the low-latitude Tethyan assemblages is revealed. The possible linkage of the Triassic stock with the Early–Middle Jurassic multicostate zeillerid representatives suggests feasible phylogenetic relationships between both groups.
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