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(Redirected from Spirifer rockymontanus) Extinct genus of brachiopods

Spirifer
Temporal range: Sandbian-Carnian
~460–232 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
↑S. perlamellosus, 19mm - pedunculate valve

↓S. striatus: exterior, and interior with lophophore

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Rhynchonellata
Order: Spiriferida
Family: Spiriferidae
Genus: Spirifer
Sowerby 1818
Species

See text

Synonyms

Delthyris

Spirifer is a genus of marine brachiopods belonging to the order Spiriferida and family Spiriferidae. Species belonging to the genus lived from the Middle Ordovician (Sandbian) through to the Late Triassic (Carnian) with a global distribution. They were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders.

S. missouriensis. Early Carboniferous, Radville, Saskatchewan (Canada). At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

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.

References

  1. Spirifer at Fossilworks.org
  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. S2CID 130468047. Retrieved 2014-02-09.

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