Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Shell color pattern in a n Upper Devonian rhynchonellid brachiopod

Andrzej Baliński

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 30 (3-4), 1985: 241-244

Four specimens of Coeloterorhynchus schucherti (Stainbrook, 1945) from the Frasnian of southern Poland retain their color pattern of the shell preserved in form of several radial stripes.

Key words: shell preservation, color pattern, Rhynchonellida , Brachiopoda, Devonian.


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