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''Camarotoechia'' is an extinct genus of
brachiopod Brachiopods (), phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear end, w ...
s found in
Paleozoic The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. The name ''Paleozoic'' ( ;) was coined by the British geologist Adam Sedgwick in 1838 by combining the Greek words ''palaiós'' (, "old") and ' ...
strata.


Taxonomy

Cherkesova (2007) reassigns two taxa, ''"radiata"'' and ''"omaliusi"'', that Nalivkin had placed in ''Camarotoechia'', to '' Sinotectirostrum'' as a new combination for a species and a subspecies respectively. The type of ''Camarotoechia'' is perhaps ''Atrypa congretata'' Conrad, 1841. The species †''Camarotoechia elegans'' is from the Ordovician and Silurian of the
Siberian Platform Siberia, also known as Angaraland (or simply Angara) and Angarida, is an ancient craton in the heart of Siberia. Today forming the Central Siberian Plateau, it was an independent continent before the Permian period. The Verkhoyansk Sea, a passive ...
. It includes one subspecies ''Camarotoechia elegans'' forma ''ramosa''.


Species

The following species of ''Camarotoechia'' have been described:''Camarotoechia''
at Fossilworks.org * ''C. bimesiornata'' * ''C. dotis'' (
Floresta Formation The Floresta Formation ( es, Formación Floresta, Df) is a geological formation of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. The sequence of siltstones, shales, coquinas and sandstone beds dates to the Devonia ...
, Colombia)Floresta Fauna
at Fossilworks.org * ''C. elegans'' (Siberia) * ''C. haraganensis'' * ''C. latisinuata'' * ''C. tethys''


References


Further reading

* Etude nouvelle en deux parties, du genre Camarotoechia Hall and Clarke, 1893. Deuxième partie Cupularostrum recticostatum n. gen. n. sp. P Sartenaer, Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 1961 * An Introduction to the Study of the Brachiopoda: 13th Annual Report New York State Geologist for the year 1893, Pt. 2. J Hall, JM Clarke, Palaeontology. Albany, NY, 1894


External links

* Rhynchonellida Prehistoric brachiopod genera Paleozoic brachiopods of South America Devonian Colombia Fossils of Colombia Floresta Formation Paleozoic animals of North America Fossils of Georgia (U.S. state) Paleozoic life of Ontario Paleozoic life of Alberta 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 1893 {{Brachiopod-stub