Meristina
Appearance
Meristina Temporal range: Late Ordovician – Middle Devonian
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
Class: | Rhynchonellata |
Order: | †Spiriferida |
Family: | †Meristellidae |
Genus: | †Meristina Hall, 1867 |
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Meristina is an extinct genus of brachiopods that lived from the Late Ordovician to the Middle Devonian of Asia, Europe, and North America. Meristina had a smooth convex shell with a one-inch diameter.
References
[edit]- ^ "Meristina". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 85)
External links
[edit]- Meristina in the Paleobiology Database
Categories:
- Spiriferida
- Prehistoric brachiopod genera
- Ordovician brachiopods
- Silurian brachiopods
- Devonian brachiopods
- Paleozoic animals of Asia
- Prehistoric animals of Europe
- Paleozoic brachiopods of North America
- Late Ordovician first appearances
- Middle Devonian genus extinctions
- Paleozoic life of Ontario
- Paleozoic life of British Columbia
- Paleozoic life of Manitoba
- Paleozoic life of New Brunswick
- Paleozoic life of the Northwest Territories
- Paleozoic life of Nova Scotia
- Paleozoic life of Nunavut
- Paleozoic life of Quebec
- Paleozoic life of Yukon
- Fossil taxa described in 1867
- Brachiopod stubs