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A New Genus of Scaphopoda from the Lower Cretaceous of the Volga Region (Russia)

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A new genus, Progadilinoides, with the type species P. balakovensis sp. nov. is described from the lower Aptian of the Volga Region and determined as a representative of the family Pulsellidae. The genus Progadilina Palmer, 1974 has been transferred to the same family.

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The author is grateful to I.P. Ippolitov (Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences) for providing the sample, as well as to A.A. Mironenko (Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences) for washing this sample and providing the revealed scaphopods for the analysis.

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Guzhov, A.V. A New Genus of Scaphopoda from the Lower Cretaceous of the Volga Region (Russia). Paleontol. J. 55, 137–140 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030121020064

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