Neospirifer
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Neospirifer Temporal range: [1]
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Fossil of Neospirifer ravana from Greenland, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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Genus: | Neospirifer Fredericks 1919
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Neospirifer is an extinct genus of articulate brachiopod fossils belonging to the family Trigonotretidae.
These stationary epifaunal suspension feeders lived in the Carboniferous and Permian periods, from 360.7 to 252.3 Ma. Fossils of this genus have been found in the sediments of Europe, United States, Canada, China, Australia, India, Palistan Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala and Venezuela.[1]
Description
Neospirifer species have shells with robust valves, a prominent sulcus and a characteristic ridge.[2]
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- Prehistoric brachiopod genera
- Carboniferous first appearances
- Permian genus extinctions
- Spiriferida
- Paleozoic life of British Columbia
- Paleozoic life of Nunavut
- Paleozoic life of Yukon