Kingdom Animalia Family Cyrtinidae Rank Genus | Class Rhynchonellata Phylum Brachiopoda Order Spiriferida | |
Similar Spiriferida, Atrypa, Leptaena, Pentamerus, Atrypa reticularis | ||
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.
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