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Paraspirifer acuminatus
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Taxonomy
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Class: Rhynchonellata
Order: Spiriferida
Family: Hysterolitidae
Genus: Paraspirifer
Species: Paraspirifer acuminatus
Author Citation Conrad, 1839
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Paleozoic
Period: Devonian
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Middle
International Age: Eifelian
Stratigraphy
Group
Dundee
Member
Provenance
Collector: K. Faucher
Date Collected: 06/21/2016
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Length: 3.4 cm
Width: 5.0 cm
Height: 3.3 cm
Location
Ontario
Canada
Comments
Medium sized specimen with some damage to the pedicle valve. Generally used as an index fossil in stratigraphic analyses. It is said to have gone extinct during the upper Emsian/early Eifelian in much of what is Europe today, but endured in North America until the Givetian.
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