Lobothyris Buckman, 1918

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Lobothyris Buckman, 1918

1918 Lobothyris Buckman , p. 107.

1934 Lobothyris Buckman, 1918 ; Muir-Wood, p. 539.

1965a Lobothyris Buckman, 1918 ; Muir-Wood, p. H784.

1983 Lobothyris Buckman, 1918 ; Cooper, p. 103.

1990 Lobothyris Buckman, 1918 ; Ager, p. 11.

2006 Lobothyris Buckman, 1918 ; Lee et al. p. 2103.

2014 Lobothyris Buckman, 1918 ; Alméras et al. p. 71.

2019 Lobothyris Buckman, 1918 ; MacFarlan p. 558.

Type species Terebratula punctata J. Sowerby, 1813 in 1812-1815, p. 46, OD.

The genus Lobothyris Buckman 1918 is found in Jurassic sequences throughout the world “literally from China to Chile ” ( Ager 1967). In the most recent revision of the genus, Alméras et al. (2014) gave a time range of Hettangian to Aalenian. Other workers include the Late Triassic species L. praepunctata Bittner, 1890 in the genus. This species is recorded from the Late Triassic of Austria ( Siblík 1994, Siblík and Bryda 2005), Italy ( Torti and Angiolini 1997), the Russian Federation ( Dagys 1963), East Timor ( Wanner 1956), Alaska ( Blodgett and Clautice 2000) and Peru ( Sandy 1994). Krumbeck (1924) figured Terebratula aff. praepunctata and Terebratula (? Waldheimia ) sp. aff. praepunctata Bittner, 1890 from Timor.

Dagys (1963) described Lobothyris monstrifera and L. tutchkovi from the Russian Federation and L. nux and L. kushlini from Tajikistan. Dagys (1974) made L. kushlini the type genus of Pamirothyris .

Blodgett and Clautice (2000) recognized L. monstrifera from Alaska. Sandy (1994) described? Lobothyris triassicus from the Late Triassic of Peru.

Trechmann (1918) figured Terebratula cf. hungarica from the Otamita Stream section, Hokonui Hills. The locality is Otamitan ( Campbell and McKellar 1960). Terebratula hungarica Bittner, 1890 was described from Derno (now Drnava in Slovakia) where it is part of an uppermost Norian fauna. It was placed by Siblík (1967) in Lobothyris . Whether Trechmann’s material can be included in Lobothyris requires further work.