''Strophomena'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

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

Strophomenida Strophomenida is an extinct order of articulate brachiopods which lived from the lower Ordovician period to the mid Carboniferous period. Strophomenida is part of the extinct class Strophomenata, and was the largest known order of brachiopods, e ...

family Strophomenidae, named by Rafinesque in 1824. They were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders. These

s (often known as lamp shells) lived from the

Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period million years ago (Mya) to the start of the Silurian Period Mya. T ...

period to the Devonian period.

Distribution

Devonian of Italy, Silurian to Devonian of Algeria, Morocco; Silurian of Australia, Morocco, Russia, Sweden, United States; Ordovician of Australia, Canada, China, France, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, United States; Llandeilo of China; Whiterockian of United States; Dawan of China; Arenig of China.

Species

*''Strophomena amoena'' *''Strophomena billingsi'' *''Strophomena concordensis'' *''Strophomena costellata'' *''Strophomena dignata'' *''Strophomena extensa'' *''Strophomena euglypha'' *''Strophomena filitexta'' *''Strophomena fluctuosa'' *''Strophomena hecuba'' *''Strophomena hirundo'' *''Strophomena incurvata'' *''Strophomena lenta'' *''Strophomena minuta'' *''Strophomena nutans'' *''Strophomena orthonurensis'' *''Strophomena perconcava'' *''Strophomena planumbona'' *''Strophomena plattinensis'' *''Strophomena rhomboidalis'' *''Strophomena striatissima'' *''Strophomena vetusta''

References

Organism names

Paleobiology Database
* Sepkoski, Jac
Sepkoski's Online Genus Database

Encyclopædia Britannica

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3252611 Strophomenida Prehistoric brachiopod genera Ordovician genus first appearances Silurian genera Devonian genus extinctions Ordovician brachiopods Silurian brachiopods Devonian brachiopods 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 the Northwest Territories Paleozoic life of Nunavut Paleozoic life of Quebec

Distribution

Species

See also

References