Spiriferina

Spiriferina Temporal range: Early Jurassic ~201–174  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Liospiriferina rostrata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Brachiopoda
Class:	Rhynchonellata
Order:	Spiriferinida
Suborder:	Spiriferinidina
Family:	Spiriferinidae
Genus:	Spiriferina D'Orbigny, 1847

Spiriferina is an extinct genus of brachiopods that lived in the Early Jurassic. Its representatives have been reported from Europe, North Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Alaska. ^[1]

The genus used to be treated more widely, so earlier reports were from the Late Silurian to the Middle Jurassic in Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and New Zealand. ^[2]

Species

The following species have been described within the genus: ^[2]

• Spiriferina abichi
• Spiriferina alia
• Spiriferina betacalcis
• Spiriferina borealis
• Spiriferina cassiana
• Spiriferina coreyi
• Spiriferina elegantissima
• Spiriferina fortis
• Spiriferina homfrayi
• Spiriferina kiparisovae
• Spiriferina munsterii
• Spiriferina nicklesi
• Spiriferina panderi
• Spiriferina papillosa
• Spiriferina rostrata
• Spiriferina roundyi
• Spiriferina rupicola
• Spiriferina salomonensis
• Spiriferina slovenica
• Spiriferina subfragilis
• Spiriferina terebratuloides
• Spiriferina terzadica
• Spiriferina tornata
• Spiriferina toulai
• Spiriferina triplicata
• Spiriferina walcotti
• Spiriferina yukonensis

However, some of the above-listed species have been transferred to other genera since the original description, for example S. alpina and S. rostrata to the genus Liospiriferina. ^{[3] [4]}

References

• Paleontology portal

1. Carter, J.L. & Johnson, J.G. (2006) Spiriferinida, [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. 1877–1937.
2. Spiriferina in the Paleobiology Database
3. Comas-Rengifo, María José; García Joral, Fernando; Goy, A. (2006). "Spiriferinida (Brachiopoda) del Jurásico Inferior del NE y N de España: distribución y extinción durante el evento anóxico oceánico del Toarciense inferior". Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. (Sec. Geol.). 101 (1–4): 147–157. ISSN   0583-7510.
4. Alméras, Yves; Cougnon, Michel (2013). "Les Spiriférines (Brachiopodes) liasiques de Vendée (France) : différentes espèces, évolution et paléoenvironnements". Le Naturaliste Vendéen. 11: 3–21.

Further reading

• Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 89)