| Rafinesquina Temporal range:
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| Rafinesquina ponderosa from the Excello South Outcrop near the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana tristate area | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | †Strophomenata |
| Order: | †Strophomenida |
| Family: | †Rafinesquinidae |
| Subfamily: | †Rafinesquininae |
| Genus: | †Rafinesquina Clarke and Hall, 1892 |
| Type species | |
| Leptaena alternata Conrad, 1838
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Rafinesquina is an extinct genus of large brachiopod that existed from the Darriwilian to the Ludlow epoch.[1]
The genus was named in honor of polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz.[2]
- ^ Colmenar, Jorge (2016). "Ordovician rafinesquinine brachiopods from peri-Gondwana" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 61 (2): 293–326. doi:10.4202/app.00102.2014. S2CID 54862401. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ^ Thompson, Ida (September 1982). National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils. New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc. pp. 650–651. ISBN 978-0-394-52412-2.