Brachiopods of the family Cyrtospiriferidae from the lower VEP facies

Brachiopods of the order Spiriferida are exceptionally widespread in the Lower Fen of the East European Platform (EEP). In this work we describe representatives of the family Cyrtospiriferidae H. et Termier 1949 from Lower Fen deposits of Belarus (Pripyat Trough) Ukraine (Lvov Trough) and Russia (Central Devonian Field Lipetsk and Voronezh Regions). The main described material comes from the territory of the Pripyat Trough. The family Cyrtospiriferdae H. et G. Termier 1949 the genus Cyrtospirifer Nalivkin 1918 and the species C. europeus Pushkin sp.nov. C. wenyukovi Pushkin sp.nov. C. veresnitsensis Pushkin sp. nov C. petrikovensis Pushkin sp.nov. C. ljachovitsensis Linnik 1966; C. brodi Wenyukov 1886; the genus Pripyatispirifer Pushkin 1996 its type species P. belorussicus (Lyashenko1959) the genus Cyrtiopsis Grabau 1923 and species C. unifersus Zhejba 2004; the genus Longilaminaspiri fer. Pushkin gen. nov. and its species L. Lyashenkoi Pushkin sp. nov. and L. acer Pushkin sp.nov.; and the genus Belarusispiri fer gen. nov. and its type species B. liplyanensis Pushkin sp.nov.