Eospirifer

Eospirifer

Taxobox
name = Eospirifer
fossil_range = middle Silurian - early Devonian
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Brachiopoda
classis = Rhynchonellata
ordo = Spiriferida
ordo_authority = Waagen, 1883
familia = ?
genus = "Eospirifer"
genus_authority = Schuchert, 1913
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"Eospirifer radiatus"
*"Eospirifer dasifiliformis"
*"Eospirifer lachrymose"
*"Eospirifer praecursor"

"Eospirifer" is a genus of extinct brachiopod in the class Rhynchonellata (Articulata) and the order Spiriferida. Their fossils occur most commonly in marine calcareous, microbialitic mudstones with extensive mudcracks or shelly packstones, generally mid-Silurian to early-Devonian in age.

elect species

*"Eospirifer radiatus"
*"Eospirifer dasifiliformis"
*"Eospirifer lachrymose"
*"Eospirifer praecursor"


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