Spirifer
Spirifer Temporal range: Sandbian - Wordian | |
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↑Spirifer perlamellosus, 19mm - pedunculate valve
↓Spirifer striatus: exterior, and interior with lophophore | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
Class: | Rhynchonellata |
(unranked): | Spiriferida |
Family: | Spiriferidae |
Genus: | Spirifer Sowerby, 1818 |
Spirifer is a genus of marine brachiopods belonging to the order Spiriferida family Spiriferidae. Species belonging to the genus occurred from the Middle Ordovician (Sandbian) through to the Middle Permian (Wordian). They were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders.[1]
Selected species
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Reassigned species
As Spirifer has been described early on, since then, many species have been reassigned.[2][3][4]
- S. archiaciformis = Sinospirifer subextensus
- S. bisulcatus = Angiospirifer bisulcatus
- S. chinensis mut. α = Sinospirifer subextensus
- S. gortanioides = Plicapustula gortanioides
- S. hayasakai = Lamarckispirifer hayasakai
- S. heterosinosus = Sinospirifer subextensus
- S. martellii = Plicapustula martellii
- S. pekinensis = Plicapustula pekinensis
- S. pellizzarii = Sinospirifer subextensus
- S. pellizzariformis = Sinospirifer subextensus
- S. pinguis = Latibrachythyris pinguis
- S. rotundatus = Latibrachythyris rotundatus
- S. subhayasakai = Sinospirifer subextensus
- S. verneuili = Cyrtospirifer verneuili
- S. verneuili var. subarchiaci = Plicapustula subarchiaci
- S. verneuili var. subextensus = Sinospirifer subextensus
- S. vilis = Sinospirifer subextensus
- S. wangleighi = Sinospirifer subextensus
- S. yassensis = Spinella yassensis
References
- ↑ Paleobiology Database
- ↑ Strusz, D.L.; Chatterton, B.D.E.; Flood, P.G. (1970). "Revision of the New South Wales Devonian brachiopod "Spirifer yassensis"". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 95: 170–190. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
- ↑ Angiolini, L.; Long, S.; Davies, L. (2011). "Revision of Sowerby's species 'Spirifer bisulcatus, Spirifer pinguis and Spirifer rotundatus' from the late Tournaisian-Visean of Great Britain [online]". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 41: 71–85. ISSN 0810-8889. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
- ↑ Ma, Xueping; Day, Day (2007). "Morphology and revision of Late Devonian Cyrtospirifer (Brachioloda) and related genera from South China and North America". Journal of Paleontology 81 (2): 286–311. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2007)81[286:marold]2.0.co;2. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
further information
- Zipcodezoo
- Paleobiology Database
- Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database
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