Mesolobus

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Mesolobus
Temporal range: Moscovian-Permian
~314–254  Ma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Strophomenata
Order: Productida
Family: Rugosochonetidae
Subfamily: Capillomesolobinae
Genus: Mesolobus
Dunbar and Condra, 1932
Species

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Mesolobus is an extinct genus of brachiopod belonging to the order Productida and family Rugosochonetidae. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Species

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