Beecheria

Beecheria is an extinct genus of brachiopod belonging to the order Terebratulida and family Beecheriidae.^[1][2] Fossils of this genus have been found in Mississippian^[3][4] to Permian beds in Eurasia,^[4][5] Australia,^[6] North America,^[3] and South America.^[7] The genus was part of the Levipustula fauna characteristic of cold water conditions.^[7] "Nests" of Beecheria have been found in fossil low temperature hydrothermal vent communities from the early Carboniferous in Newfoundland.^[8]

Beecheria Temporal range: Carboniferous-Permian ~361–254 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Brachiopoda
Class:	Rhynchonellata
Order:	Terebratulida
Family:	†Beecheriidae
Genus:	†Beecheria Hall and Clarke 1893
Species
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Species

• B. angusta Netschajew 1894^[5]
• B. boranelensis Peou and Engel 1979^[6]
• B. chouteauensis Weller 1914^[3]
• B. curva Smirnova 2009^[9]
• B. elliptica Cooper and Grant 1976^[10]
• B. expansa Cooper and Grant 1976^[10]
• B. kargaliensis Smirnova 2007^[5]
• B. lidarensis Diener 1915^[4]
• B. magna Jin and Ye 1979^[11]
• B. netschajewi Grigor'yeva 1967^[5]
• B. samarica Smirnova 2007^[5]

References

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