Thecideida

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Thecideida
Temporal range: Triassic–Recent
Thecideide brachiopod (T),
bivalve Ctenostreon from the Jurassic
of Poland
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Rhynchonellata
Order: Thecideida
Elliott, 1958
Superfamilies

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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]

Thecidium mediterraneum, A. natural size: B. section through shell (magnified)

Taxonomy

Order Thecideida

References

  1. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2001)027<0205:hpicso>2.0.co;2
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  2. doi:10.1017/s1477200004001598
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  3. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2001)027<0205:hpicso>2.0.co;2
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