Dallinidae is a family 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 belonging to the order
Terebratulida
Terebratulids are one of only three living orders of articulate brachiopods, the others being the Rhynchonellida and the Thecideida. Craniida and Lingulida include living brachiopods, but are inarticulates. The name, Terebratula, may be derived ...
.
Genera
Genera:
* †''
Antigoniarcula''
Elliott, 1959
* ''
Campages''
Hedley, 1905
* ''
Dallina
''Dallina'' is a genus of small to average size lampshells (maximum long). It is known since the Miocene.
Description
Small to large, triangular to subquadrangular in outline; rectimarginate to paraplicate; beak erect, without beak ridges; f ...
''
Beecher, 1893
* ''
Jaffaia''
Thomson, 1927
* ''
Nipponithyris''
Yabe & Hatai, 1934
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3542958
Terebratulida
Brachiopod families