This next brachiopod is a bit of a mystery to me. I can not find any decriptions or images that match it in Amsden's "Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Hunton Group" papers nor in Hall's "Paleontology of New York". It is a triangular to sub-pentagonal shaped shell with slightly convex to flat valves. There is a slight sulcus and fold but they are mostly expressed near the anterior margin. The pedicle valve's beak extends beyond the brachial valve and recurves so that the umbo opening is parallel with the valve. Both vales have strong, regular costae that affect the margin such that it follows the folds of the costae instead of being flat.
Brachial valve
Anterior
Pedicle valve
Posterior
Profile
This fossil looks as though it could be a Rhynchotreta type brachiopod. I found a
Rhynchotreta in the Irodequoit Rochester Shale formation near Lockport, NY but that is Silurian in age. But the shell morphology is similar.
I found the specimen shown on this page in the Bois d'Arc formation (Cravatt member) near Clarita, OK which is Devonian in age (Lockhovian stage). The Bois d'Arc and Haragan formations interfinger with each other and are roughly the same age (Devonian, Lockhovian stage). They are both roughly correlative to the Helderberg fauna of New York and thus are contemporaneous with the Coyemans, Kalkberg and New Scotland formations.
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