Spirifer
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| ↑S. perlamellosus, 19mm - pedunculate valve
↓S. striatus: exterior, and interior with lophophore | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
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| Genus: | Spirifer Sowerby 1818
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Delthyris | |
Spirifer is a
marine brachiopods belonging to the order Spiriferida and family Spiriferidae. Species belonging to the genus lived from the Middle Ordovician (Sandbian) through to the Late Triassic (Carnian) with a global distribution. They were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders.[1]
Selected species
- Spirifer acutiplicatusHayasaka, 1933
- Spirifer bambadhurensisDiener, 1903
- Spirifer baschkiricaTschernyschew, 1902
- Spirifer battuGemmellaro, 1899
- Spirifer byrangiChernyak, 1963
- Spirifer carnicusSchellwien, 1892
- Spirifer concentricusLee and Su, 1980
- Spirifer distefaniiGemmellaro, 1899
- Spirifer dvinaensisLicharew, 1927
- Spirifer enderleiTschernyschew, 1902
- Spirifer engelgardthiChernyak, 1963
- Spirifer fritschiSchellwien, 1892
- Spirifer holodnensisChernyak, 1963
- Spirifer lirellusCvancara, 1958
- Spirifer malistanensisPlodowski, 1968
- Spirifer muensteriSuess, 1854
- Spirifer opimusHall, 1858
- Spirifer pentagonoidesPlodowski, 1968
- Spirifer pentlandid'Orbigny, 1842
- Spirifer perlamellosusHall, 1857
- Spirifer piassinaensisChernyak, 1963
- Spirifer postventricosusTschernyschew, 1902
- Spirifer pseudotasmaniensisEinor, 1939
- Spirifer rakusziEinor, 1946
- Spirifer rockymontanusMarcou, 1858
- Spirifer schellwieniTschernyschew, 1902
- Spirifer siculusGemmellaro, 1899
- Spirifer spitiensisStoliczka, 1865
- Spirifer strangwaysiDe Verneuil, 1845
- Spirifer striatusMartin, 1809
- Spirifer subgrandiformisPlodowski, 1968
- Spirifer subtrigonalisGemmellaro, 1899
- Spirifer supracarbonicusTschernyschew, 1902
- Spirifer supramosquensisNikitin, 1890
- Spirifer tareiaensisEinor, 1939
- Spirifer tegulatus Trautschold, 1876
- Spirifer undataReed, 1944
- Spirifer uralicusTschernyschew, 1902
- Spirifer zitteliSchellwien, 1892
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
- ^ Spirifer at Fossilworks.org
- ^ 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.
- ISSN 0810-8889. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
- S2CID 130468047. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
External links
- Zipcodezoo
- Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database
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