Spirifer

Spirifer is a genus of marine brachiopods belonging to the order Spiriferida and family Spiriferidae. Species belonging to the genus lived from the Middle Ordovician (Sandbian) through to the Middle Triassic (Carnian) with a global distribution. They were stationary epifaunal suspension feeders.[1]

Spirifer
Temporal range: Sandbian-Carnian
~460–232 Ma
↑S. perlamellosus, 19mm - pedunculate valve

↓S. striatus: exterior, and interior with lophophore

Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Brachiopoda
Class:
Rhynchonellata
Order:
Spiriferida
Family:
Spiriferidae
Genus:
Spirifer

Sowerby 1818
Species

See text

Synonyms

Delthyris

Selected species

Reassigned species

As Spirifer has been described early on, since then, many species have been reassigned.[2][3][4]

  • S. archiaciformis = Sinospirifer subextensus
  • S. bisulcatus = Angiospirifer bisulcatus
  • S. chinensis mut. α = Sinospirifer subextensus
  • S. gortanioides = Plicapustula gortanioides
  • S. hayasakai = Lamarckispirifer hayasakai
  • S. heterosinosus = Sinospirifer subextensus
  • S. martellii = Plicapustula martellii
  • S. pekinensis = Plicapustula pekinensis
  • S. pellizzarii = Sinospirifer subextensus
  • S. pellizzariformis = Sinospirifer subextensus
  • S. pinguis = Latibrachythyris pinguis
  • S. rotundatus = Latibrachythyris rotundatus
  • S. subhayasakai = Sinospirifer subextensus
  • S. verneuili = Cyrtospirifer verneuili
  • S. verneuili var. subarchiaci = Plicapustula subarchiaci
  • S. verneuili var. subextensus = Sinospirifer subextensus
  • S. vilis = Sinospirifer subextensus
  • S. wangleighi = Sinospirifer subextensus
  • S. yassensis = Spinella yassensis

References
  1. Spirifer at Fossilworks.org
  2. Strusz, D.L.; Chatterton, B.D.E.; Flood, P.G. (1970). "Revision of the New South Wales Devonian brachiopod "Spirifer yassensis"". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 95: 170–190. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  3. Angiolini, L.; Long, S.; Davies, L. (2011). "Revision of Sowerby's species 'Spirifer bisulcatus, Spirifer pinguis and Spirifer rotundatus' from the late Tournaisian-Visean of Great Britain [online]". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. 41: 71–85. ISSN 0810-8889. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  4. Ma, Xueping; Day, Day (2007). "Morphology and revision of Late Devonian Cyrtospirifer (Brachioloda) and related genera from South China and North America". Journal of Paleontology. 81 (2): 286–311. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2007)81[286:marold]2.0.co;2. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
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