Mucrospirifer mucronatus

Mucrospirifer mucronatus
Temporal range: Middle Devonian
A Mucrospirifer mucronatus from the Windom shale.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Rhynchonellata
Order: Spiriferida
Family: Mucrospiriferidae
Genus: Mucrospirifer
Species:
M. mucronatus
Binomial name
Mucrospirifer mucronatus
Conrad, 1841

Mucrospirifer mucronatus is a species of articulate brachiopod from the middle Devonian.[1] The species serves as an index fossil for the middle Devonian.[2] [3]

  1. ^ Jackson, Paula. "Environmental and physiological influences on isotopic and elemental compositions of brachiopod shell calcite: Implications for the isotopic evolution of Paleozoic oceans" (PDF).
  2. ^ Tillman, John R. (1964). "Variation in Species of Mucrospirifer from Middle Devonian Rocks of Michigan, Ontario, and Ohio". Journal of Paleontology. 38 (5): 952–964. ISSN 0022-3360. JSTOR 1301615.
  3. ^ Welch. "Geographical Variation and Evolution in the Middle Devonian Brachiopod, MUCROSPIRIFER" (PDF).