Palaeoconchus
Palaeoconchus Temporal range:
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Palaeoconchus minor Vinn, 2006 from Late Ordovician of Kõrgessaare, Hiiumaa, Estonia. | |
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Phylum: | incertae sedis
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Genus: | Palaeoconchus† Vinn, 2006
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Palaeoconchus is a genus of microconchid tubeworms. Their tubes have pseudopunctae penetrating the tube wall. Tubes lumen is smooth. Palaeoconchus occurs in the Late Ordovician of Baltica and Avalonia. In the Devonian it had a global distribution.[1]
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Categories:
- Protostome enigmatic taxa
- Tentaculita
- Ordovician invertebrates
- Silurian animals
- Devonian animals
- Late Devonian animals
- Devonian animals of Europe
- Late Ordovician first appearances
- Devonian extinctions