Eospirifer
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | Rhynchonellata |
| Order: | †Spiriferinida |
| Suborder: | †Cyrtinidina |
| Superfamily: | †Cyrtinoidea |
| Family: | †Cyrtinidae |
| Genus: | †Eospirifer Schuchert, 1913 |
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Eospirifer is a genus of extinct brachiopod in the class Rhynchonellata (Articulata) and the order Spiriferida. Their fossils occur most commonly in marine calcareous, microbialitic mudstones with extensive mudcracks or shelly packstones, generally mid-Silurian to early-Devonian in age.
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References
[edit]- ↑ Villas, E.; Cocks, L. R. M. (1996). "The First Early Silurian Brachiopod Fauna from the Iberian Peninsula". Journal of Paleontology. 70 (4): 571–588. Bibcode:1996JPal...70..571V. doi:10.1017/S0022336000023544. ISSN 0022-3360. JSTOR 1306520.
- ↑ Zhan, RenBin; Jin, JiSuo; Liang, Yan; Meng, LingKai (September 2012). "Evolution and paleogeography of Eospirifer (Spiriferida, Brachiopoda) in Late Ordovician and Silurian". Science China Earth Sciences. 55 (9): 1427–1444. Bibcode:2012ScChD..55.1427Z. doi:10.1007/s11430-012-4458-4.
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