Composita
| Composita | |
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| Composita from the Boone Formation of northern Arkansas. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | Rhynchonellata |
| Order: | Athyridida |
| Family: | Athyrididae |
| Genus: | Composita Brown, 1849 |
| Species | |
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Composita is a brachiopod genus that lived from the Late Devonian to the Late Permian.[1] Composita had a smooth shell with a more or less distinct fold and sulcus and a round opening for the pedicle on the pedicle valve. Composita is included in the family Athyrididae (Order Athyridida) and placed in the subfamily Spirigerellinae.
Related genera include Cariothyris and Planalvus along with Athyris.
Species
The following species with the genus have been described:[1]
- C. advena
- C. affinis
- C. apheles
- C. apsidata
- C. bamberi
- C. biforma
- C. bucculenta
- C. costata
- C. cracens
- C. crassa
- C. depressa
- C. discina
- C. elongata
- C. emarginata
- C. enormis
- C. girtyi
- C. grandis
- C. hapsida
- C. huagongensis
- C. idahoensis
- C. imbricata
- C. insulcata
- C. jogensis
- C. magnicarina
- C. mexicana
- C. minuscula
- C. mira
- C. misriensis
- C. nucella
- C. ovata
- C. parasulcata
- C. pilula
- C. plana
- C. prospera
- C. pyriformis
- C. quadrirotunda
- C. quantilla
- C. rotunda
- C. sigma
- C. stalagmium
- C. strongyle
- C. subcircularis
- C. subquadrata
- C. subtilita
- C. tareica
- C. tetralobata
- C. tobaensis
- C. trinuclea
References
- 1 2 Composita at Fossilworks.org
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