Saughina Bancroft, 1949

Musteikis, Petras & Cocks, L. Robin M., 2004, Strophomenide and orthotetide Silurian brachiopods from the Baltic region, with particular reference to Lithuanian boreholes, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 (3), pp. 455-482 : 475

Saughina Bancroft, 1949

Remarks.—The type species is Saughina pertinax ( Reed, 1917) , from the Rhuddanian of Scotland. Williams and Brunton (2000) put the genus into the synonymy of Fardenia , but we consider both genera valid and separate here. Baarli (1995: 50) identified and illustrated the subspecies Saughina pertinax gentilis , originally described from the Rhuddanian of Wales by Bancroft (1949), from the Lower Llandovery Solvik Formation of the Oslo region. The genus is not definitely known from elsewhere in Baltica. However, “ Fardenia pertinax ” was recorded from the Lower Llandovery of Juzhnyj island, Novaya Zemlya and the Chatanzeyan Peninsula ( Modzalevskaya 1985: 60, pl. 1: 3, 4; Sapelnikov and Mizens 1991: 92, pl. 2: 5a, 5b), but we have not seen the relevant material and do not know whether or not it is truly Saughina .