- and
persisting until the Carboniferous, the
Strophomenids were an
extremely diverse order.
Strophomenids are
usually divided into two
groups - the Plectambonitoidea...
-
largest and
heaviest known brachiopod species belong to this class.
Strophomenids were
among the most
diverse and
abundant brachiopods during the Ordovician...
- Archaeopteris), and
first winged insects (palaeoptera and neoptera).
Strophomenid and
atrypid brachiopods,
rugose and
tabulate corals, and
crinoids are...
-
found in
strata as late in age as the
Tournasian epoch. Like some
other Strophomenids,
Lepteana were epifaunal,
meaning they
lived on top of the seafloor...
- were
joined by many new
types of organisms,
including tabulate corals,
strophomenid, rhynchonellid, and many new
orthid brachiopods, bryozoans, planktonic...
-
surviving taxa show
morphological trends through the event.
Atrypid and
strophomenid brachiopods became rarer,
replaced in many
niches by productids, whose...
- an
etching trace fossil of a Late
Ordovician ctenostome bryozoan on a
strophomenid brachiopod valve;
Cincinnatian of
southeastern Indiana,
United States...
-
Carboniferous of Wooster, Ohio
Petrocrania brachiopods attached to a
strophomenid brachiopod;
Upper Ordovician of
southeastern Indiana.
Lingula found near...
-
Gosaukammerella is a
genus of
strophomenid brachiopods, with one
species Gosaukammerella eomesozoica. It was
originally thought to be a
problematic calcareous...
- striae.
Their width is
usually greater than
their length, like most
Strophomenids.
Members of this
genus had s**** that grew in increments, with each...
