Spirifer

Spirifer
Temporal range: Sandbian - Wordian
↑Spirifer perlamellosus, 19mm - pedunculate valve

↓Spirifer striatus: exterior, and interior with lophophore

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Rhynchonellata
(unranked): Spiriferida
Family: Spiriferidae
Genus: Spirifer
Sowerby, 1818

Spirifer is a genus of marine brachiopods belonging to the order Spiriferida family Spiriferidae. Species belonging to the genus occurred from the Middle Ordovician (Sandbian) through to the Middle Permian (Wordian). They were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders.[1]

Selected species

  • Spirifer acutiplicatus Hayasaka, 1933
  • Spirifer bambadhurensis Diener, 1903
  • Spirifer baschkirica Tschernyschew, 1902
  • Spirifer battu Gemmellaro, 1899
  • Spirifer byrangi Chernyak, 1963
  • Spirifer carnicus Schellwien, 1892
  • Spirifer concentricus Lee and Su, 1980
  • Spirifer distefanii Gemmellaro, 1899
  • Spirifer dvinaensis Licharew, 1927
  • Spirifer enderlei Tschernyschew, 1902
  • Spirifer engelgardthi Chernyak, 1963
  • Spirifer fritschi Schellwien, 1892
  • Spirifer holodnensis Chernyak, 1963
  • Spirifer lirellus Cvancara, 1958
  • Spirifer malistanensis Plodowski, 1968
  • Spirifer muensteri Suess, 1854
  • Spirifer opimus Hall, 1858
  • Spirifer pentagonoides Plodowski, 1968
  • Spirifer pentlandi d'Orbigny, 1842
  • Spirifer perlamellosus Hall, 1857
  • Spirifer piassinaensis Chernyak, 1963
  • Spirifer postventricosus Tschernyschew, 1902
  • Spirifer pseudotasmaniensis Einor, 1939
  • Spirifer rakuszi Einor, 1946
  • Spirifer rockymontanus Marcou, 1858
  • Spirifer schellwieni Tschernyschew, 1902
  • Spirifer siculus Gemmellaro, 1899
  • Spirifer spitiensis Stoliczka, 1865
  • Spirifer strangwaysi De Verneuil, 1845
  • Spirifer striatus Martin, 1809
  • Spirifer subgrandiformis Plodowski, 1968
  • Spirifer subtrigonalis Gemmellaro, 1899
  • Spirifer supracarbonicus Tschernyschew, 1902
  • Spirifer supramosquensis Nikitin, 1890
  • Spirifer tareiaensis Einor, 1939
  • Spirifer tegulatus Trautschold, 1876
  • Spirifer undata Reed, 1944
  • Spirifer uralicus Tschernyschew, 1902
  • Spirifer zitteli Schellwien, 1892

Reassigned species

As Spirifer has been described early on, since then, many species have been reassigned.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Paleobiology Database
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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. Retrieved 2014-02-09.

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