Israelaria

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Israelaria
Temporal range: Early Cambrian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Rhynchonellata
Order: Protorthida
Family: Protorthidae
Genus: Israelaria
Cooper, 1976
Type species
Israelaria parnesi

Israelaria is an extinct genus of protorthid brachiopod that lived in what is now Israel in the Cambrian period. It is a monotypic genus known from a single species, I. parnesi.

Etymology

Israelaria is named after the state of Israel. [1]

References

  1. Cooper, G. Arthur (March 1976). "Lower Cambrian Brachiopods from the Rift Valley (Israel and Jordan)". Journal of Paleontology . 50 (2): 269–289. ISSN   0022-3360. JSTOR   1303495 . Retrieved 5 October 2024.