Orthoidea is a
superfamily
SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...
of
brachiopods
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, whi ...
containing the families:
* Family Orthidae
* Family
Anomalorthidae
* Family
Bohemiellidae
* Family
Glyptorthidae
* Family
Hesperonomiidae
* Family
Hesperorthidae
* Family
Lycophoriidae
* Family
Nanorthidae
* Family
Orthidiellidae
* Family
Plaesiomyidae
Plaesiomyidae is a family of extinct lamp shells belonging to the order Orthida.
Fossil record
Fossils of Plaesiomyidae are found in marine strata from the Ordovician
The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and system, the second of six period ...
* Family
Poramborthidae
* Family
Productorthidae
* Family
Whittardiidae
References
Rhynchonellata
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