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A new brachiopod species, Argyrotheca ageriana , from the lower Pleistocene of Apulia (southern Italy) is proposed. It comes from a calcarenite, very rich in brachiopods, which crops out at Castro Marina, Lecce, Italy. A SEM study of the ultrastructure of the shells is also provided. A paleoecological reconstruction reveals that the environment of the new species was circalittoral, ca. 75–100 m deep, and might have belonged to a biocoenosis of coastal detritic sediments, in a temperate to warm-temperate sea. |
