Rectocalathis Sous-embranchement (subphylum) des Rhynchonelliformea   Classe des Rhynchonellata  Ordre des Terebratulida  Sous-ordre des Terebratulidina  Super-famille des Terebratuloidae  Super-famille des Dyscolioidae  Super-famille des Cancellothyroidea

Genus Rectocalathis Seidel & Lüter, 2014

[Type species= Rectocalathis schemmgregoryi Seidel & Lüter, 2014 (p. 4)]

Small eucalathine brachiopod with a smooth to faintly costate shell and an extreme form of epithyrid (subumbonal) pedicle opening towards the ventral side of the animal.

Present Diagnosis from Seidel & Lüter (2014)

Extant Species of Rectocalathis

R. schemmgregoryi Seidel & Lüter, 2014

Diagnosis

FIGURES : Rectocalathis      Geographic distribution

Rectocalathis schemmgregoryi Seidel & Lüter, 2014 Type locality: Cruise SO 205 MANGAN, St. EBS 40 (11°47'56"N, 116°49'85"W), 3954 m depth. Depth range: 3954 m   Diagnose - (Seidel & Lüter, 2014) Punctate and small, subcircular to pentagonal shell with complete oval foramen perforating the ventral valve. Dorsal valve with long, slightly medially incurved, thick crura with blunt crural processes, no loop. Heavy spiculation within the lophophore and tentacles, and fragile median spiculation in the dorsal mantle.

[enlarge] from Seidel & Lüter (2014)