// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did the Thecideida say? It's a shell of its former self.
| Thecideida Temporal range: | |
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| Thecideide brachiopod (T), sabellid worm tube (S) and bryozoans (B) on the shell of the bivalve Ctenostreon from the Jurassic of Poland | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | Rhynchonellata |
| Order: | Thecideida Elliott, 1958 |
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Thecideida is an order of cryptic articulate brachiopods characterized by their small size and habit of cementing their ventral valves to hard substrates such as shells, rocks and carbonate hardgrounds. Thecideides first appeared in the Triassic[1] and are common today.[2][3]
Taxonomy
[edit]Order Thecideida
- Superfamily Thecideoidea Gray, 1840
- Superfamily Thecospiroidea Bittner, 1890
References
[edit]- ↑ Jaecks, G.S.; Carlson, S.J. (2001). "How phylogenetic inference can shape our view of heterochrony: examples from thecideide brachiopods". Paleobiology. 27 (2): 205–225. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2001)027<0205:hpicso>2.0.co;2.
- ↑ Lüter, C. (2005). "The first Recent species of the unusual brachiopod Kakanuiella (Thecideidae) from New Zealand deep waters". Systematics and Biodiversity. 3 (1): 105–111. Bibcode:2005SyBio...3..105L. doi:10.1017/s1477200004001598.
- ↑ Jaecks, G.S.; Carlson, S.J. (2001). "How phylogenetic inference can shape our view of heterochrony: examples from thecideide brachiopods". Paleobiology. 27 (2): 205–225. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2001)027<0205:hpicso>2.0.co;2.
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