Discinisca

<i>Discinisca</i>

Discinisca

Extinct genus of brachiopods

Discinisca is a genus of brachiopods with fossils dating back from the Early Devonian to the Pliocene of Africa, Europe, North America, and New Zealand.[1]

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Living individuals incorporate tablets of silica into their shell.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Christian Emig (2010). Emig CC (ed.). "Discinisca Dall, 1871". World Brachiopoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
  2. [2]
    Williams, A; Cusack, M; Buckman, J. O.; Stachel, T (1998). "Siliceous tablets in the larval shells of apatitic discinid brachiopods". Science. 279 (5359): 2094–6. Bibcode:1998Sci...279.2094W. doi:10.1126/science.279.5359.2094. PMID 9516107.
  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 92)
  • Emig, Christian (2006). Systematics of extant brachiopod taxa


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