Kallirhynchia is an extinct genus of brachiopods found in Jurassic strata in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India and Uzbekistan. It was a stationary epifaunal suspension feeder.[1]
Kallirhynchia Temporal range: Jurassic
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Fossil of Kallirhynchia major from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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Family: | Tetrarhynchiidae
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Genus: | Kallirhynchia Sepkoski, 2002
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Species previously assigned to Kallirhynchia
edit- K. sharpi = Sharpirhynchia sharpi
References
edit- ^ Kallirhynchia in the Paleobiology Database