Gypospirifer

Gypospirifer
Temporal range: Carboniferous–Permian
Fossil of Gypospirifer condor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Rhynchonellata
Order: Spiriferida
Suborder: Spiriferidina
Superfamily: Spiriferoidea
Family: Trigonotretidae
Genus: Gypospirifer
Cooper and Grant 1976

Gypospirifer is an extinct genus of articulate brachiopod fossils belonging to the family Trigonotretidae. They were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders.

Fossils of this genus have been found in the sediments of the Carboniferous and Permian ages (314.6 to 254.0 million years ago).

Species

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References

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