Eospirifer

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Eospirifer Temporal range: middle Silurian - early Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Brachiopoda
Class:	Rhynchonellata
Order:	†
Suborder:	†
Superfamily:	†
Family:	†
Genus:	†Eospirifer Schuchert, 1913
Species
Eospirifer radiatus Eospirifer dasifiliformis Eospirifer lachrymose Eospirifer praecursor

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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• Eospirifer radiatus
  

  Eospirifer radiatus
• Eospirifer dasifiliformis
• Eospirifer lachrymose
• Eospirifer praecursor

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