Spirifer

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Spirifer
Temporal range: Tournaisian-Bashkirian
~358–315  Ma
Spirifer perlamosus pedunculate valve.jpg
↑S. perlamellosus, 19mm - pedunculate valve

↓S. striatus: exterior, and interior with the skeleton of the lophophore (spiralium)

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Brachiopoda
Class:
Rhynchonellata
Order:
Spiriferida
Family:
Spiriferidae
Genus:
Spirifer

Sowerby, 1818
Species

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Spirifer is a genus of marine brachiopods belonging to the order Spiriferida and family Spiriferidae. Species belonging to the genus lived in the Carboniferous (certainly in the Tournaisian and in the Visean, possibly also in the Serpukhovian and the Bashkirian). [1]

This genus used to be treated more widely, so less critical sources list its species from the Middle Ordovician (Sandbian) through to the Late Triassic (Carnian) with a global distribution. [2]

Like most brachiopods, representatives of Spirifer were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders. [2]

S. missouriensis. Early Carboniferous, Radville, Saskatchewan (Canada). At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. Spirifer missouriensis (TMP 1983.022.0030), Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta, 2025-07-13.jpg
S. missouriensis. Early Carboniferous, Radville, Saskatchewan (Canada). At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

Selected species

Reassigned species

As Spirifer has been described early on, since then, many species have been reassigned. [3] [4] [5]

References

  1. ↑ Carter, J.L., Johnson, J.G., Gourvennec, R. & Hou Hong-fei (2006) Spiriferida, [In:] Roger L. Kaesler (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised. Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part), Boulder, Colorado–Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, pp. 1689–1876.
  2. 1 2 Spirifer at Fossilworks.org
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Angiolini, L.; Long, S.; Davies, L. (2011). "Revision of Sowerby's species 'Spirifer bisulcatus, Spirifer pinguis and Spirifer rotundatus' from the late Tournaisian-Visean of Great Britain [online]". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. 41: 71–85. ISSN   0810-8889 . Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  5. ↑ Ma, Xueping; Day, Day (2007). "Morphology and revision of Late Devonian Cyrtospirifer (Brachioloda) and related genera from South China and North America" . Journal of Paleontology. 81 (2): 286–311. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2007)81[286:marold]2.0.co;2. S2CID   130468047 . Retrieved 2014-02-09.
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