Hercosestria
| Hercosestria Temporal range: Permian | |
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| Hercosestria cribrosa (multiple individuals) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
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| Genus: | Hercosestria Cooper & Grant, 1969 |
Hercosestria is an extinct genus of brachiopod from the Middle Permian. They were important reef-forming organisms because of their conical shapes, attaching spines, and gregarious habits (Weidlich, 2002).
References
- Cooper, G.A. and Grant, R.E. 1969. New Permian brachiopods from west Texas. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 1:1-20
- Weidlich, O. 2002. Permian reefs re-examined: extrinsic control mechanisms of gradual and abrupt changes during 40 my of reef evolution. Geobios 35, Supplement 1, pp. 287-294.
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Hercosestria cribrosa Cooper & Grant 1969 (Roadian, Guadalupian, Middle Permian); Glass Mountains, Texas.
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Hercosestria cribrosa Cooper & Grant 1969 (Roadian, Guadalupian, Middle Permian); Glass Mountains, Texas.
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