Discinisca

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Discinisca
Temporal range: Early Devonian–Recent
Discinisca lamellosa, a group of old and young specimens; the largest showing the foramen in the peduncle valve; the rest showing brachial valves
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Order: Discinida
Family: Discinidae
Genus: Discinisca
Sowerby, 1822
Species
  • D. tenuis D. messi
  • D. laevis (Sowerby, 1822)
  • (Broderip, 1834) (Damián E. Pérez et al., 2023)
  • D. rikuzenensis D. lamellosa
  • (Hatai, 1940) (Sowerby)
  • D. lamellosa sensu d'Hondt, 1976
  • (Smirnova et al., 2017) D. suborbicularis

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Living individuals incorporate tablets of silica into their shell.[2]

References

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  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 92)
  • Emig, Christian (2006). Systematics of extant brachiopod taxa
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