Eospirifer
Eospirifer is a genus of extinct brachiopod in the class Rhynchonellata (Articulata) and the order Spiriferida. Their fossils occur most commonly in marine calcareous, microbialitic mudstones with extensive mudcracks or shelly packstones, generally mid-Silurian to early-Devonian in age.
| Eospirifer | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Lophophorata |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | Rhynchonellata |
| Order: | †Spiriferinida |
| Suborder: | †Cyrtinidina |
| Superfamily: | †Cyrtinoidea |
| Family: | †Cyrtinidae |
| Genus: | †Eospirifer Schuchert, 1913 |
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Select species
- Eospirifer radiatus
Eospirifer radiatus - Eospirifer dasifiliformis
- Eospirifer lachrymose
- Eospirifer praecursor
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